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All time
'Ponies, dogs and servants - she thought all of them should know their place': Life in a big house in 1960s Dublin
Gillies Macbain
20 Oct 2019
56.5k
10
Michael Palin in North Korea: 'I realise almost immediately that I have gone too far. Quite a long way too far'
Michael Palin
28 Sep 2019
83.0k
22
Opinion: 'Are you criticising someone because they're mirroring something you don't like about yourself?'
Mungi Ngomane
26 Sep 2019
11.6k
4
'My great-aunt Chrissy left home at fourteen to go join a convent. That was in 1954'
Ian Maleney
27 Jul 2019
29.7k
15
'Bright, brilliant, educated young women from South County Dublin... don’t end up with a gypsy boxer from Limerick'
6 Jan 2019
66.4k
13
'Paul Merson once rang in the middle of the night because, while asleep, he’d poked himself in the eye'
29 Dec 2018
11.8k
3
'It must have been television gold for the watching millions. Was I ranting? Yes, I suppose I was'
27 Dec 2018
8.4k
13
'If I could do all that, I would hold a world record... I was 11 years and 333 days old'
25 Dec 2018
10.5k
0
'Johnny – the biggest balls on the planet'
25 Dec 2018
17.2k
12
'He’s been shot, he’s been stabbed, he’s been crippled, and here he is defending a world championship after 15 months out'
23 Dec 2018
8.9k
1
'Bright, brilliant, educated young women from South County Dublin... don’t end up with a gypsy boxer from Limerick'
22 Dec 2018
20.3k
8
'He is sick with the fear... Waiting for them to get to the part where they discover that €294,000 is missing'
21 Dec 2018
8.6k
4
'I promised her it wasn’t the end for me. Even if the surgery didn’t work and my career was over'
20 Dec 2018
21.1k
1
The day child prodigy Tiger Woods appeared on national TV with legendary US actor Jimmy Stewart
17 Dec 2018
9.1k
0
An Irish science-fiction story predicted the plot of Back to the Future
25 Nov 2018
16.0k
3
Extract: Don't fear the reaper - an immunologist on why we shouldn't be so afraid of death
Luke O'Neill
23 Nov 2018
27.2k
31
Book details Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger's relationship with his right-hand man from the Galway Gaeltacht
3 Nov 2018
48.8k
10
Opinion: How to stay steady in turbulent world - without blaming others
Peter Bregman
6 Oct 2018
12.5k
8
Irish Country music and dancehalls: 'The cause of the ruin of hundreds of young girls'
Kevin Martin
28 Jul 2018
44.0k
37
Kindness: Change your life and make the world a kinder place
Gill Hasson
15 Jul 2018
20.6k
7
The Free-Time Formula: 'Your 'priorities' are making you less productive'
Jeff Sanders
8 Jul 2018
16.0k
13
How to have a great life: 'We rarely give thought to the legacy we’re creating'
Paul McGee
1 Jul 2018
23.5k
30
Tara Flynn: 'Dear fellow Feminazis. I write this from The Bunker'
Tara Flynn
17 Jun 2018
104k
127
Success-oriented culture: 'Many people chase goals that are not theirs'
Philip Kernan
16 Jun 2018
27.9k
12
Column: 'What is holding you back from getting the results you want?'
Jamie Smart
27 May 2018
27.0k
7
'Our parish universe straddled two counties and two States. We forged an identity as borderers'
Darach MacDonald
15 Apr 2018
15.5k
15
Eileen Paisley: 'I think there was a quietness and shyness about Martin. He was good company'
Jude Collins
1 Apr 2018
2.7k
53
The Cattle Raid of Cooley is our national epic - and still has resonance for modern rural life
John Connell
19 Mar 2018
31.0k
29
Irish in Nottingham: 'We created a little Gaeltacht by the games cabinet of an old English pub'
Scott De Buitléir
17 Mar 2018
25.5k
65
'People who brag about being busy will always be average. They'll never accomplish anything'
Isaiah Hankel
28 Jan 2018
114k
54
'I got a telephone call from Cork City who said they would look after me and help me get fit'
1 Jan 2018
10.4k
3
'Cantona lit the flame, but it was Keane who kept it burning for more than a decade'
1 Jan 2018
15.3k
15
'Absolute disbelief consumed us. How could this be happening to Cormac, of all people?'
1 Jan 2018
30.7k
11
'I like horses because they have never caused me pain'
31 Dec 2017
16.2k
17
'He studied to become a Jesuit priest. Now he was one of the most famed people in racing'
30 Dec 2017
5.4k
0
'My boots were endorsed by the moustachioed Liverpool and Ireland winger... This sales pitch worked'
28 Dec 2017
8.8k
0
'The band was so unprepared for an Irish victor that they played God Save the Queen'
27 Dec 2017
12.0k
1
'Some of the Irish team were spat on as they made their way to the team bus'
26 Dec 2017
36.8k
15
'I was asked dozens of times in the aftermath what was it like to lose £2 million on a rugby match'
26 Dec 2017
30.2k
9
'I thought we would win it in my time... From there on you would have expected to go forward'
24 Dec 2017
11.2k
10
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