It is often said that if a person does something they love they will never work a day in their life. Elizabeth Toher is the living, breathing example of that.

There are advantages to a life spent in the big city, not least the sheer handiness of seeing and doing so many things. Whether that’s a big match, concert, or exhibition, a capital has always plenty going on.

Recent amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) represent a worrisome expansion of unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic power.

While I do not wish to diminish in any way the seriousness of what happened, one of the very big fears I have, as the political talk and controversy develops over the scoliosis and Spina Bifida surgeries, is that they will overshadow what is one of ...

Eighty-three per cent of smokers regret starting smoking, according to the HSE. If they had the choice again, they say, they would never take that first puff.

Tereasa McGuire has done many things in her life so far. She was a teacher, an assistant pharmacist, a local politician, and is now a qualified psychotherapist and death doula.

Budgets are not what they used to be. Once they were significant, even formalaic occasions with their own set rubrics and liturgies.

The memory of the summer months of 2023 could be summarised as a sandwich of two heatwaves interspersed with what seems in retrospect like an almost constant deluge of rain.

If, like me, you have heard of the now ubiquitous 'NGO' but are unsure of what the acronym comprises, this article will hopefully help. My curiosity is piqued because NGOs are at once maligned and lauded.

There are times when trying to win a battle means you lose the war. The debate about the derogation from the Nitrates Directive is one of those occasions. Farming is a big part of who we have been and who we are. It has a big and important future.