We had a good summer in and around the Ox Mountains. There have been no complaints, but the fact remains that there are few things that exercise our minds more than the weather.

Have you noticed how in recent years Halloween has become as big a deal as Christmas? For some people it is certainly the bigger festival of the two, which is a big change from the days of my youth.

At present the two Catholic dioceses of Tuam and Killala are edging towards a merging of the (soon to be former) dioceses into a new union of both.

We are witnessing a particular species of Irish government farce unfolding in the grey corridors of Leinster House where millions of taxpayers' money evaporates.

“Liaaaaaam!” She was mortified the first time I beeped the car horn at someone in Ballina and was rapidly rethinking all her life decisions to this point.

You know that moment at a dinner when someone's had too much wine and starts saying increasingly unhinged things, and everyone else develops a sudden fascination with their napkins? The decent thing would be to intervene, to gently suggest perhaps ...

What effect does the way we vote have on the way we are governed? What impact does it have on the way our politics is conducted? Is it time to think about a change? There is no clamour for change right now, that’s for sure.

It was a summer decades ago, and my tour-guide colleague, Noel Kelly, was getting to the climax of his performance, having marshalled his troupe of tourists up the boggy mountain behind the Céide Fields Interpretive Centre - his official Office of ...

The death last Thursday of the writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan has been greeted with a huge wave of sadness right across Ireland, in keeping with his monumental contributions to Irish life and culture.

I think it’s fair to say that a sense of humour is not among the most obvious of our national characteristics. Unlike, for example, our nearest neighbour.