It’s unusual, if not rare, for a work by an acclaimed poet to appear in the pages of a national newspaper, only for it to vanish without trace, then resurface, 18 years later, and go on to become one ...

Baby James was asleep in his mother’s arms, thousands of miles away from his crib in South Boston, when he fulfilled his parents’ joyful dream. The 10-month-old was blessed by Pope Leo XIV last ...

An Irish family living in Jamaica are ‘counting their blessings’ after emerging relatively unscathed after Hurricane Melissa raged through the Caribbean island. But Dubliners Orlagh Kilbride, her ...

Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner feels Adam Wharton’s omission from the England squad could be a blessing in disguise. The 21-year-old midfielder was not named in Thomas Tuchel’s 24-man group for ...

A half-crown in a purse of copper pennies, The talking of neighbours after Sunday mass, A moveable feast that follows a day of fasting, A spring of water behind summer grass, A winter’s night spent by ...

Arrangements for the annual blessing of the graves which take place in St Patrick's cemetery Dowdallshill on Sunday July 20 at 3pm have been announced. This annual ceremony is one of the biggest ...

Award-winning Cork writer William Wall wrote a poem for the Irish Examiner, depicting how the city of Gaza has become like a cemetery. Eyeless in Gaza was featured on the front page of Wednesday's ...

A sweeping epic fantasy spanning hundreds of years, Heaven Official's Blessing is a story of yearning and grief, of stolen fate and brutal vengeance, of redemption and enduring love. Xie Lian, once ...

Siobhán Flynn (64) is a poet from Dublin whose work has been placed or shortlisted in numerous competitions in Ireland and beyond. Siobhan won the 2022 Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry and her work ...

Democracy is, in some ways, a fragile thing. It is hard won in many countries, and yet readily trod underfoot or taken for granted. And perhaps there’s good cause for the latter. After all, you should ...