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# EXTRACT

Last month
February 2024
Ellen Keane: I used to want to be like everyone else but now I know my arm is my superpower
Last year
2023
Behind the scenes, climate talks tussle with world falling far short of sticking to Paris Agreement
Extract: We searched for photos of momentous events as well as ordinary people's lives
Gerry Creighton: You can learn sentience and emotional expression from animals
Extract: 'This is why you are here', the inner voice repeated. 'Breathe and trust yourself'
Extract: How to nourish your body while you go through menopause
Relationships: We say opposites attract but really they complement and complete one another
Gill Perdue: From Cagney and Lacey to Bad Sisters, strong female characters are a joy to watch
Extract: 'Gently paced and physically undemanding, the voyage was the essence of slow travel'
Extract: Colman Noctor's 4-7 Zone - 'it turns out moderation is key'
Nutritionist: 'I'm calling BS on toxic diet culture'
Extract: 'Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover shows we badly need a new future for social media'
All time
'March 2nd, 2014 was one of the most important days of my life'
'Charlton’s team sure set a mighty bandwagon in motion'
'So, what’s your best Phil Mickelson story?'
The Irish Read: David Hayden writes about boyhood and home
'Football was a diversion. I was a doctor'
Extract: A pot of boiling water can lead to a glorious, simple and cheap meal
The Irish Read: 'Summers were for plants and foolishness, autumns for oblivion'
Extract: What it was like to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement
Extract: Making sense of a united Ireland - which was long deemed impossible
Extract: I was in the prison when the call came through: 'We have a situation'
The Irish Read: An extract from Aingeala Flannery's debut - inspired by life in Tramore
'I heard 5 explosions' - When an English footballing legend came to Sligo
The Irish Read: Cristín Leach shares the story of getting her first tattoo post-divorce
Extract: Clothing doesn't just tell us about ourselves - it tells us about the beauty and cruelty of the world
Extract: 'I knew that it was too dangerous to bicycle down O’Connell Street, for fear of being shot'
'Each morning, I pause here beside Michaela and pray'
'All the energy that I had devoted to racing, I now had to redirect into getting better'
'Losing weight is a lot like baking a cake'
'Christy Ring unleashed a devastating display of hurling to score 3 goals in a 4-minute spell'
'When everything else goes to s**t you’ve still got your team... Until it gets taken away'
'Rashford had helped raise around £20million for FareShare, shattering his initial target of £100,000'
'We wouldn’t wear the club colours and if the ‘parkie’ came along we’d disappear'
'48 metres out, just off-centre of the posts, the pressure of four nations on his shoulders'
'Eriksson accepted the position of United manager, and had even signed a contract'
'I wasn’t told about his death until immediately after the game'
'He wondered if rugby was responsible, blamed himself for letting me play'
''Once the term ‘Dublin footballer’ was mentioned, people looked at and treated me differently''
The story of the Irish duo that helped pull off a famous college basketball victory