:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/T3Q6SEOBXZFPXNTPYI33YUI3NE.JPG "‘There can be violent outbursts or total apathy’: Principals call for counselling supports at primary level")
Primary school, says principal Róisín Hickey, is supposed to be a haven where children can play, learn and have fun with their friends. Increasingly, for a...
:quality(70):focal(975x446:985x456)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/O27SXFX2KGVYQXPBPCIVONB6XA.jpg "A week in Center Parcs in Longford: ‘You’ve had enough of holiday now, haven’t you, Daddy?’")
The thing about going on holiday with small children is that you should not go on holiday with small children. If you do go on holiday...
:quality(70):focal(2225x1155:2235x1165)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/B3YPA2CP4VAUTDIIWBV3G2TNXU.jpg "Ask Roe: I saw a video of my ex-girlfriend on a porn site but I don’t think she knows")
Dear Roe, I really need help on what to do. I’m a 26-year-old man and went out with a girl for more than a year when...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BZKOMOUUIJCMXLS4UU3LIUJKPE.jpg "Cocaine and Irish women: ‘I’m a wife. I’m a mother. I have a career. I’m a user’")
Earlier this week the Health Research Board (HRB) revealed that, along with recording the highest number of drug treatment cases on record last year, there has...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ZJSOHZPORRCJBLLGOOACO6YFBA.jpg "Irish renters living in fear: ‘I’m working in a Government job, and I feel so abandoned’")
Many of Ireland’s renters are living in fear that one change in circumstance could leave them homeless overnight. The main reason people contact homelessness-prevention organisation Threshold...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IOLH4ZBYUNHKPLUVBUWE7CXW6Y.jpg "Danger at the Cliffs of Moher: the busy tourist walking trail and the question of who maintains it")
Every day this summer, thousands of tourists will leave the relative safety of the Cliffs of Moher Experience and enter the Cliffs of Moher Walking Trail....
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WGYLTL6J2BCTRD74NCCHRGIZ7M.jpg "Disorganised criminals and Russian-speaking mafias: Why car thefts are surging in Ireland")
When Sonia Harris went to a Dublin city gym one afternoon, the experience quickly took a sinister turn. Her new car was stolen from outside and...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NUAM3NXCENK27HZYUZTGESNLYE.jpg "Was it Positano or Dubrovnik or Santorini? No, we were in Wexford")
“Sure, we could be on the Continent.” It was out of my mouth before I knew it and I’m not even sure I was being ironic....
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SBBDTDQRVNDZTFJ2UW7TQUEXSI.jpg "Nine music festivals cancelled this year, more affected next year without State intervention, Dáil hears")
Events like this weekend’s Taylor Swift concerts in Dublin, and associated “Swiftmania” and “Swifties”, give the false impression that Ireland’s music scene is booming, but nine...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7DK2IPADMZB3ZMGON3FTE6QBBE.jpg "Dublin has been waiting for Taylor. But does the ‘Swift lift’ really add up to €150m?")
So long London, welcome to Dublin. Recent headlines have claimed that consumer spending prompted by Taylor Swift’s three-night stint at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin this...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/XAAXC4V2IBHS3EQVR3F4VXY5TA.jpg "New teachers to receive €2,000 incentive to stay year in Irish classrooms")
Newly qualified teachers will be entitled to a €2,000 incentive payment next summer if they take up a full-time teaching role for the coming school year...
:quality(70):focal(2890x750:2900x760)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/TMATKQREKNCOBLS3F3WM666BGA.jpg "Patrick Freyne: These Criminal Minds folks are no craic. They look and sound as if they work for Accenture")
Whenever I watch Criminal Minds (Disney+) and then try to write about it I end up thinking far too much about the A-Team. So let me...