Eoin O’Malley: ‘Zombie’ refuses to romanticise the IRA and some people don’t like that
Last Saturday night in Paris was fun. It was a long day, with a long stressful match. Drink was taken. The best part of sport is the crowd. A heaving…
My Favourite Room: ‘I didn’t intend to take on this house in Mexico City but when I saw it, I couldn’t resist’
We’ve all learned new words and new ways of doing things over the last three years, ever since early 2020, when we first heard the word ‘Covid’ and, with it,…
Ex-Kerry Group boss Denis Brosnan US case settlement talks with former son-in-law hit with fresh row
Settlement talks between former Kerry Group boss Denis Brosnan and his ex-son-in-law's company have been hit with a fresh row over delayed depositions, with the Irish businessman claiming he could…
Professor Luke O’Neill: ‘I had about seven death threats… I was getting images of the Nuremberg hangings’
Professor Luke O’Neill is in ebullient form. The first copy of his new book arrives at the reception desk of the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Dublin at the same…
Brendan O’Connor: Everyone is now convinced that everyone else except them is taking cocaine
Turning on the Six-One News on Wednesday evening one could have been forgiven for thinking there had been a military coup.
Gsoc upgrades probe into garda’s alleged racial abuse to criminal inquiry
The Garda watchdog has launched a criminal investigation into a garda superintendent who allegedly racially abused a bouncer at a city centre pub and also allegedly assaulted a female member…
Drew Harris: ‘Why the GRA made this roster issue so personal, only it can explain. I’m always ready to open talks’
He has lost the support of an overwhelming majority of men and women under his command. Headlines ask why he is so unloved, and he has been pilloried on social…
Swimming at dawn, yoga at breakfast and hummus on tap – my wild weekend with the Happy Pear
In the tiny west Cork village of Crookstown, I pull over for directions. Google Maps has done me wrong before. And, surely, this narrow boreen — scarcely wide enough for…
‘Some people say I could have been a great father’ – Francis Brennan looks back at 70
In his head, Francis Brennan is not 70: “I think probably 48 or 50,” he says. “To be honest, that’s where I would be.”
‘I went to dinner in south Dublin and the cocaine was served before the starter’ — middle-class mum tells of her drug use
Irish people are the biggest users of cocaine in Europe, according to the European Drug Report 2023. Here, one middle-class mother describes the insidious nature of the drug and how…
Broadcaster Zara King: ‘It’s interesting that the first time I’ve fallen in love, it’s the one’
Just before her 2021 interview for Doireann Garrihy’s podcast The Laughs of Your Life, Zara King spoke to her cousin – “the closest thing I have to a sister” –…
Poll reveals half of Irish adults under 35 have tried cocaine as Interpol investigates MV Matthew drugs haul with possible Donegal link
One in two adults under the age of 35 have tried cocaine, according to a poll conducted days after the dramatic €157m seizure of the drug brought new focus on…