The housing crisis, underreporting of numbers and confusion over local authority housing rules mean those fleeing violence risk homelessness

Michael Denninger used money from his confirmation to travel from Coburg to Clare in 1980

Michael Hopkins was let down by the Irish system as a child and the British system as an elderly bachelor. Then he met a photographer at a bus stop

At a ring fort, St Brigid crosses sway in an ancient tree and guides share stories of Imbolc, healing and renewal

The message is clear: climate change should be prioritised as a security crisis, not just an environmental one

Third hearing of Burke’s appeal over dismissal now seems likely

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on kelp, Bootlace Fungus and Pelican’s Foot Shells

Bitcoin promoters sometimes portray price spikes as evidence it is money - in fact the opposite is true

While researching my new novel, I became fascinated with the people who chose to join a group whose belief system and way of life were at odds with so much of Irish society’s standards

Driving everywhere is doing us no good

The adults in my life had cause to doubt my word, because I did a lot of imagining and I wasn’t always sure what I’d made up

Nearly a decade after a European monitoring body found the human rights of local authority tenants in the State were being violated by inadequate, unsafe housing, little has changed

The comedian on being too agreeable, moving from London to rural Sligo as a child, and why Sydney Sweeney would play her in a biopic

Concentration of global risk in one country – the US – is a source of enormous jeopardy

Basic skills such as playing, pretending and conversing have been affected by tech use and pandemic isolation

The proposed Wicklow to Greystones Greenway route runs right along the edge of the ecologically sensitive coastal area known as the Murrough Wetlands

Readers’ notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Irish Times photographer Dara Mac Dónaill meets Toffee the foal, Talk of Freedom and Phoenix of Spain at the stud’s reopening

Rental market reforms in Ireland will come into force from March

The Newstalk presenter on old wounds, new plans and stepping down from The Communications Clinic