According to the findings of a recent Irish Times/Ipsos opinion poll, 40 per cent of the Irish public will not pay their television licence fees this year.

The recent Positive Ageing Week is a timely reminder for us – Oldies, Seniors, Elders, OAPs, Old Fogies or whatever we call ourselves now – to Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, as the song has it.

Maria Boland is a naturally caring person. Her family has been in the undertaking and pub business in Swinford for years. Maria herself went to the UK at 18 and qualified as a nurse, a job which brought her to other countries and various specialties.

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.