Sir, – Michael McDowell writes that we need to tackle the “pull factors” that attract asylum applicants to this country without specifying what they are (“Ireland must tackle the ‘pull factors’ that ...

Sir, – Dermot Casey suggests that working people could regard the inheritance tax as a farewell gift to a society that has “supported and enabled” them in their working lives and in the accumulation ...

Sir, – I wholeheartedly agree with your letter-writer in relation to the ecological cost of building houses (September 19th). I have long wondered at the logic of the derelict housing grant in ...

John MacKenna's most recent books are Absent Friend, a memoir of his friendship with Leonard Cohen; and Father, Son and ...

The book is not perfect but it lights its subjects with such sensitivity that it makes much of contemporary history look ...

David McGowan draws on his experience as a small-town funeral director to offer warm insight into the ceremonies around ...

Set in the Californian coastal town of Half Moon Bay, Ethel Rohan’s Sing, I begins with a man in a giraffe mask performing an ...

It is 1986. Twenty-nine-year-old Marlo, English-born but Irish by blood, inherits a cottage on the remote Beara Peninsula.

The author is at her most probing when she gets down to specifics, such as when accounting for our changing concept of space ...

Leinster confirmed their strength in depth by defeating Edinburgh at Hive Stadium in the opening match of the URC with a ...

A high ball over the top of the Derry defence saw Johnny Kenny race forward and his low pass into the path of Dylan Watts saw ...

Tax and welfare systems in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland should be reformed to encourage cross-Border working, ...