Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Sue Grey: The daughter of Irish emigrants who became ‘Britain’s most powerful woman’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Why new Troubles legacy deal is seen as a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Troubles victims will wait to see whether new legacy deal represents the ‘sea-change’ promised www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

‘We cannot save these trees’: The Dark Hedges, made famous by Game of Thrones, are dying www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Parents of teen killed after being left on roadside by emergency services: ‘They failed Shannon’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

With Michelle O’Neill in her home village of Clonoe, Co Tyrone: ‘The British state killed local people. Those moments contribute to who you are’ www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

The story of the passion and drive behind the creation of Voice of America and its reporting in the 1940s was an important one to tell so I’m thrilled my programme ‘The Start of Voice of America’ was a BBC Radio 4 pick of the week #VOA

Pick of the Week from the green of Portrush this evening, with @freyamcc.bsky.social teeing us off at 1815, including @josephinemcdermott.bsky.social @laurenlaverne.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It was an absolute treat to listen to even more radio than usual this week, all for Pick of the Week on BBC Radio 4. Find out how I got on at 6.15pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘We’re now in the golden years of Portrush’: Why golf’s Open has the town smiling all over again www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

‘It is more fun to be involved’: Open golf score records down to two local women www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Rathlin Island’s puffins: We have quite a lot of people who arrive and say, ‘So, where exactly are the penguins?’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

We’re thrilled to announce @valmcdermid.bsky.social is the new chair of the Gordon Burn Prize! Val will be joined by @beardedgenius.bsky.social , @freyamcc.bsky.social ‬ Andrew McMillan + Jude Rogers. Publishers - deadline for submissions is 1 Aug newwritingnorth.com/gordon-burn-...

Meabh Quoirin on life after her daughter’s death in the jungle: ‘Nóra was meant to be here by our sides’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Best of luck to Oscar and the rest of the Christ’s College Cambridge team in tomorrow night’s final! University Challenge Irish finalist: ‘There’s always a Shakespeare question, so I read his complete works’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

US tariffs: For distillery north of the Border, the picture is further complicated by Brexit www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

‘Nell McCafferty belonged to the Bogside’: Derry mural commemorates late journalist and campaigner www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Man due to marry week after Omagh bombing tried to save life of one of youngest victims www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Six in 10 adults in North had a childhood trauma in ‘major public health challenge’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025... @freyamcc.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @irishtimes.com #children #childhood #Ireland #health #mentalhealth #museumofchildhoodireland

Omagh bomb: Public inquiry begins hearing www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Michael Longley: ‘Most men don’t like intelligent women. I just hang on their every word’. Published last July to mark his 85th birthday and the publication of Ash Keys, his Selected Poems, this is a brilliant interview by my colleague Freya McClements www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85. RIP. He was a great poet and a kind and generous man. I was very grateful for his permission to quote his beautiful poem The Linen Industry in full in Dirty Linen. Thinking of his wife Edna and his three children www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The Irish Times best books of 2024: Anne Enright, John Boyne, Joseph O’Connor, Mia Levitin and more reveal their favourites www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...