Despite marriage equality, homelessness remains a significant issue in the LGBTQI+ community, where people who are rejected by family are too afraid for their safety to access homeless services
From spider invasions to lightning strikes, a mix of anxiety and lack of stimulation is causing vivid pandemic dreams for many. Is our subconscious trying to help us cope? Or does it mean anything at all?
Audiobooks are having a moment. The voice telling the story, however, is most often not that of the author. So who are the people we’ve heard so much from, but know so little about? What’s it like to speak on behalf of James Joyce one day, Eoin Colfer by way of Artemis Fowl the next?
It’s not news to say that our homes have become our everything: encompassing work, life, relationships and play. We asked five people working in very different fields to share how their working from home life has evolved in recent weeks, and what this period has revealed about their careers and themselves
Since mid-March, our homes have been our whole world. But a handful of people have had no choice but to move house, or even country, at this scary and uncertain time. These are their stories
What most of us want right now is to be with our loved ones, especially for special occasions like birthdays, graduations, anniversaries or simply when things are getting a bit too much. Sarah Taaffe-Maguire selects some of the most thoughtful gifts you can click to send
Sustainably minded stores offering customers an alternative way to shop have seen demand for their products grow during the lockdown. Sarah Taaffe-Maguire meets three business owners readying themselves for renewed success
Are there suddenly more birds? No, we can just hear them now. If you’re looking at birds, you’re birdwatching, says Niall Hatch of Birdwatch Ireland – a group with loads of great resources to help you identify your new feathered friends
All over the country, kids are making light of the lockdown and letting their imagination run wild to create art
Want to make your home feel a bit more expansive? Learn how to ‘zone’ your interior spaces, as the experts do. Here, Sarah Taaffe-Maguire asks three Irish interior designers for their practical tips on optimising your space for WFH, exercise, home-schooling and, of course, Netflix
Living alone is challenging right now. Living with someone . . . well, it’s got its disadvantages too. As week four of staying indoors beckons, Sarah Taaffe-Maguire asks a trio of relationship experts to share their tips on making romantic relationships work while in confinement
The moment that many of Ireland‘s top athletes have been waiting for all their lives is the Olympic Games. So now that Tokyo 2020 has been postponed until 2021, how are they coping?
You’ll probably know Aches from his murals of Savita, Stormzy and Horseboy. But this unidentifiable street artist is flirting with recognition as he prepares to present another solo exhibition
For International Women’s Day, we ask contemporary Irish women leaders to select court cases taken by women that helped to create the Ireland of 2020
The arts production company behind Riot and Dublin Oldschool is staging a ten-day festival of theatre, art, music and discussion and ‘a manifesto’ for the city and nation we want to live in
Following the Festival of Youth Orchestras, which took place earlier this month in the National Concert Hall, Sarah Taaffe-Maguire met up with some of the teenage leading lights of the future of classical music – and yes, they rehearsed straight through the midterm break
Artist Alan Phelan pays homage to the Irish men who produced the first colour photograph with a new show at the RHA
You’re probably familiar with Annie Atkins’s work, even if you’re not familiar with her: she’s a designer of graphic props for the film industry and, as she puts it, ‘Most of what we do is supposed to be invisible’
Property portfolio developer Laura de Barra has picked up plenty of DIY know-how on the job. Now she’s sharing it in her new book, Gaff Goddess