From snake bites to amputations,show captures the stress of being a new doctor

From snake bites to amputations,show captures the stress of being a new doctor

Fly-on-the-wall series Junior Doctors Down Under shows that life in a hospital emergency department is not what you see in TV dramas.

  • byBridget McManus

Latest

How a flock of 12 sheep helped one man heal his ‘soul tiredness’

How a flock of 12 sheep helped one man heal his ‘soul tiredness’

One burnt-out writer,12 sheep,numerous lambs – and a renewed sense of the sheer wonder of life.

  • byJohn Connell
‘You are not tourists here’:In Ireland,there’s still a place for wonder

‘You are not tourists here’:In Ireland,there’s still a place for wonder

For those with an openness to whimsy,the stories from the Irish west coast will subvert normal thinking.

  • byDavid Leser
Ten things we’ll never understand about Ireland

Ten things we’ll never understand about Ireland

Who doesn’t love the Irish,even if we need subtitles to understand their accents? Yet even then not everything is clear,with plenty about Ireland to puzzle the traveller.

  • byBrian Johnston
At 30,this writer put bad boys and drink behind her. Then she sold 30 million books

At 30,this writer put bad boys and drink behind her. Then she sold 30 million books

Novelist Marian Keyes’ life is divided into two,but she says her painful youth still haunts her.

  • byJohanna Thomas-Corr
Norway,Ireland and Spain are formally recognising Palestine as a state

Norway,Ireland and Spain are formally recognising Palestine as a state

Israel responded angrily to the news,recalling Israel’s ambassadors and summoned the three countries’ envoys in Israel.

Advertisement
Live stream connecting Dublin and New York overhauled after lewd acts

Live stream connecting Dublin and New York overhauled after lewd acts

An art installation will undergo changes after Dubliners flashed their backsides and showed images of the September 11 attacks up to the camera.

  • byRob Harris
‘I’ve heard some strange theories’:Paul Murray on The Bee Sting’s climax
Dicey Topics
Good Weekend

‘I’ve heard some strange theories’:Paul Murray on The Bee Sting’s climax

The Irish writer on his childhood fear of the devil,his superpower – and one of the enigmas of his latest novel.

  • byBenjamin Law
PM whose identity personified modern Ireland resigns unexpectedly

PM whose identity personified modern Ireland resigns unexpectedly

Leo Varadkar,the gay son of an Irish nurse and a doctor born in India,became the country’s youngest-ever leader in 2017.

  • byMegan Specia
The writing that shows the business of poetry for Seamus Heaney

The writing that shows the business of poetry for Seamus Heaney

The Nobel laureate for literature’s correspondence reveals much about how he worked and the difficulties of his situation as Ireland’s greatest modern poet.

  • byGregory Day
Nine must-do highlights of Dingle,Ireland

Nine must-do highlights of Dingle,Ireland

This windswept port town garnered attention as a Star Wars location,but beyond rugged landscapes there’s plenty to charm the visitor.

  • byMarian McGuinness