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The Wonderful Acting Career of Cyril Cusack

Date: Feb 22, 22
David Mullen looks back on the life and legacy of Cyril Cusack, one of Ireland’s best-known and m...

Just A Memory – Christmas in the Countryside

Date: Dec 21, 21
By Collette Bonnar   When I was growing up in the 1960s the preparation for Christmas was ...

BACK TO SCHOOL – the Irish textbooks that filled our childhood classrooms

Date: Aug 31, 21
Those of a certain age will recall their schooldays and the ritual of acquiring the requisite sch...

Overtoun Bridge – where dogs leap to their deaths

Date: Mar 26, 19
By C.A. Sarsfield According to legend, older African elephants instinctively direct themselves t...

Cathy Kelly’s Exclusive Summer Short Story

Date: Jun 5, 18
A Summer Wedding     Best selling author Cathy Kelly has written an original summe...

Stranger Than Fiction – The Horror of the Vampire Lover

Date: Apr 6, 18
By John Macklin It was early evening in November, 1930, and already the street lights were casti...

From The Archives – The Big Snow of 1947

Date: Feb 27, 18

The Journalist and the Poltergeist

Date: Apr 18, 17
By Shane Cochrane Ireland is an island of ghosts. Phantom pipers and spectral soldiers; jilted b...

The Irish on 75 Years of Desert Island Discs

Date: Mar 7, 17
The Irish on Desert Island Discs On the 75th anniversary of BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs, Jim...

Remembering Kathleen Lynn

Date: Mar 28, 16
By Sheila O'Kelly When the word ‘war’ is heard, automatically men in uniform come to mind and ...