‘The climate in Rome is fantastic. Last year I didn’t pull out my winter woollies - even once’

Research says working class boys are falling behind because of a fear of failure. What can we do to solve it?

Despite advances in many areas, Romans were happy with mathematical rules-of-thumb

White linked to peace as opposed to red poppy ‘embroiled in UK politics’, Quakers say

Science and religion make strange bedfellows. One big clash is the central issue of faith

Picture-postcard pretty town has an end-of-the-line feel but there’s value to be had and a good supply of property at all levels

Future depends on returning to the radical equality of Jesus and early church

With a herd imported from Italy, Johnny Lynch set up his cheese plant – even though everyone else thought he was mad

David Morrissey who plays Aulus Plautius in epic historical drama Britannia says the comparisons are inevitable

HBO’s must-see series is more evidence that philosophical pessimism grows in appeal during downbeat times

A Roman picnic and a visit to Morocco’s ninth-century Fez el Bali medina deliver an assault on the senses

Enduring centuries of turmoil proves the Gaeltacht’s resilience but it needs support

My usually optimistic partner is feeling the pressure – but it hasn’t completely changed him

Religions and ideologies are at their best as part of a secular pluralist society

Copies of structure that survived Islamic State to be erecrted in ‘gesture of defiance’

Nowhere is too small or too unlikely – from an unused swimming pool to the back of a pick-up truck – to grow your own food

In 1629 the Irish College founded there was the third on European continent

Tales of the lad from Slad