2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1069+ words) One evening in early 2013, Aidan Mullally found himself nervously hovering outside the Foggy Dew pub in Dublin city centre. After “a bad Christmas” overshadowed by grief, Mullally had taken to Google in search of a sense of community. He stumbled…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (562+ words) Ireland’s first-ever permanent LGBTQ museum exhibition has opened in Cork. The exhibition, “We Were Always Here”, opened on Wednesday at the Cork Public Museum in Fitzgerald Park and is a collaboration with the Cork LGBT Archive and features both a…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (417+ words) In the case, a High Court judge has refused the man an application to judicially review (JR) a decision by the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (Ipat) affirming a recommendation that the man be refused refugee status and subsequent decisions by…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (666+ words) Social media giant Meta must be challenged for failing to stop the amplification of homophobic and racist posts on its social networking site Facebook, the Dáil has been told. Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne expressed “deep concern” about Facebook, which…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (977+ words) I grew up in Glasnevin and I went to school in Finglas. I wasn’t funny in class. I was kind of funny with my friends, but I have always been very much the listener. I come from a family of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1605+ words) Kirsty Lang always thought she was Irish. The journalist, broadcaster and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz grew up believing she had inherited the personality, temperament and red hair of her Irish grandmother. They were the only two…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (159+ words) The Irish Times This gleefully smutty animated comedy from Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen imagines a preening Parisian gay influencer infected with heterosis, a virus that slowly turns its victims from tight-panted gym queens to dadbods who understand the offside…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (308+ words) Overall, arrests for “gross indecency” or buggery remained low until the late 1950s. There were “whisper networks”, hotels where blind eyes were turned and sometimes class and religious boundaries were traversed: “In August 1925, a middle-class Presbyterian in his mid forties was…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (404+ words) Sir, – As the Dublin-born son of an Irish mother and a Ghanaian father, I found Bertie Ahern’s remarks about “the Africans” (May 13th) both depressing and revealing. Many of us who grew up visibly different in Ireland carry a quiet, lingering…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (217+ words) Robinson’s address also had an edge because of a contemporary suggestion that emigrants might be allowed to elect three Irish senators and because she questioned collective amnesia by quoting Eavan Boland’s poem The Emigrant Irish: “Like oil lamps, we put…...