Ireland

Why is it so hard to hire a car?

5 October 2024 9:00 am

My passport and driving licence sat on the counter but the girl stared back at me, repeating her demand. ‘I…

Man of mystery and friend of the Cambridge spies

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Details of Baron Talbot of Malahide’s attempts to clean up the mess left by his one-time mentor Guy Burgess are still conveniently exempted from the Freedom of Information Act

Letters: The case for assisted dying

28 September 2024 9:00 am

Craic down Sir: If Ireland had been investing in infrastructure as Ross Clark writes (‘Bog down’, 21 September), Dublin would…

How the EU turned on Ireland’s low-tax project

21 September 2024 9:00 am

First, the good news. The Irish government is about to receive a €13 billion windfall in the form of back…

Confessions of a hypochondriac

7 September 2024 9:00 am

My neighbour had a surgical procedure and keeps telling me about it. Every time she starts, I shout ‘No! Please…

A romantic obsession: Precipice, by Robert Harris, reviewed

24 August 2024 9:00 am

In the build-up to the Great War another drama unfolds, as the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith is seen to be distracted from politics by his infatuation with the beautiful Venetia Stanley

How weird was Oliver Cromwell?

24 August 2024 9:00 am

The pious people’s champion was not only a sadist and ruthless self-promoter; he could also indulge in infantile horseplay during the pressurised period leading up to the regicide

Is beekeeping left-wing?

17 August 2024 9:00 am

‘Zip my head in,’ he said, after climbing into a white jumpsuit with a mesh helmet. It was a beekeeper’s…

Don’t bother calling the doctor

20 July 2024 9:00 am

‘If you are calling about sinusitis, sore throat, earache in children, infected inset bite from the UK not overseas, impetigo,…

Drama on the London Underground

13 July 2024 9:00 am

The girl lay slumped against a wall in front of me and someone ran to push the emergency button. I…

I will miss my vote

6 July 2024 9:00 am

I feel as if I first took part in a general election even before I was born. My father was…

A visit to ye olde Ireland

29 June 2024 9:00 am

The £80 million super-yacht with a helicopter on the upper deck sat in the harbour, and we sat outside the…

A sea of troubles: The Coast Road, by Alan Murrin, reviewed

29 June 2024 9:00 am

The sudden return of the liberated Colette Crowley to the Donegal fishing village of Ardglas stirs fear and resentment in the closed community

No one knows how to sell the European project to the Irish any more

8 June 2024 9:00 am

A few days after having Sunday lunch at the hotel where Michael Collins ate his last meal, we found ourselves…

Home to mother: Long Island, by Colm Toibín, reviewed

18 May 2024 9:00 am

The sequel to Brooklyn sees Eilis leave New York shocked and angry, and return to Enniscorthy – where everything is outwardly calmer, but much has changed

Amo Racing’s Flat supremacy

4 May 2024 9:00 am

You don’t often walk into a racing yard and find the trainer engrossed with two owners –apropos of horse names…

Lefties don’t know anything about farming

20 April 2024 9:00 am

The artists and hippies are re-wilding their land, which is to say doing nothing at all to it and watching…

Irish voters have refused to erase the family

10 March 2024 7:33 pm

It’s not been a particularly good weekend for the political establishment in Ireland. Two constitutional changes have been rejected by…

Ireland is falling out of love with Sinn Fein

29 January 2024 11:35 pm

Is the Sinn Fein star starting to wane? Support for the party has hit its lowest level for four years…