The 100 best hotels in Ireland for 2025 - from three-star thrillers to surprise luxury stays

Our travel editor's annual list of the island’s top 100 properties celebrates the best of the best, from rising stars to old reliables and stand-out reinventions. Published in September, it was one...

Ireland’s 100 best independent shops

From artisan makers selling uniquely Irish homewares to neighbourhood wine joints and wellness spaces, our writers have compiled their hotlist of the small shops worth a visit this summer

Perimenopause, HRT and me: ‘Men think their partners are lunatics... It’s rage and sadness wrapped...

With the free HRT scheme starting next month, Irish women open up about their perimenopause and HRT journey

10 years of marriage equality: ‘We are a family – joyous, ordinary, and exceptional’

This week marks 10 years since Ireland voted for marriage equality, with the resounding yes result followed by emphatic celebrations across the country. Here, seven LGBTQ couples who tied the knot...

Niall Harbison: ‘Throughout my adult life, drinking remained my crutch for decades, destroying my...

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Niall Harbison shares details of his troubled adolescence, the depths of his alcoholism and how caring for street dogs pulled him out of a downward spiral

Ireland’s Fab 50 places to stay in 2025: ‘Maybe it’s a bit romantic, but I like the idea of...

From mirror houses to forest dens, five-star suites to garden getaways, the year’s essential accommodation hotlist has landed

RTÉ's Sarah McInerney: ‘It was the time when Brian O’Driscoll was going out with Glenda Gilson. I...

She’s at ease grilling politicians and covering wars but the Prime Time presenter says interviewing her own boss at RTÉ wasn’t her favourite thing to do. Here, she talks about being Celtic Tiger...

Murphia List 2025: The top Irish talent on the London food and drink scene revealed

This year’s Hot Dinners list of hospitality movers and shakers features 13 new entries and a Limerick-born Rising Star

Sarah Corbett Lynch: ‘The truth is I did lie, and that is a big part of why the Martens are walking...

At the age of eight, Sarah Corbett Lynch’s father Jason was beaten to death at their home while she slept. In March, with her book being released, the 18-year-old spoke about the abuse her family...

‘After 10 years of being single and loving it, I asked my gay best friend to have a baby with me’

By the time she hit 35, author Nicola Slawson had learned to embrace singledom – but she still desperately wanted to be a mother. Realising she would struggle financially as a solo mum, she decided...

What do women really fantasise about? ‘More than BDSM or kink or group sex, they want hot sex with...

We talk to the experts about what Irish women really want, female-pleasure-centred porn and how fantasies can help us unlock our sexual identity

‘I fantasise about having a threesome with my husband and a red-headed woman’: 17 women share their...

Mediahuis Ireland journalists and contributors win several travel awards

Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and Belfast Telegraph contributors win at Travel Extra Travel Journalist of the Year Awards

23 best eastern eats in Dublin – from Sichuan street food to soup dumplings

The city is home to a growing smorgasbord of global cuisine, with East Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Middle East strongly represented. Food writer Vritti Bansal picks her top spots to sample...

Meet the Spice Girls of trad: ‘Keeping the music pure is extremely important to us – we’re just...

All-female Irish supergroup Biird on challenging the tired narrative around women in trad and disrupting the music industry

Beauty entrepreneur Aimee Connolly: ‘Eight-year-olds don’t need a skincare regime – I feel very...

In 2015, she was a freelance make-up artist with dreams of starting her own cosmetics line. Now Aimee Connolly has turned her self-funded brand into a multi-million euro business. She talks about the...

‘The stains were horrendous, the toilet was disgraceful – so we checked out ASAP’: Irish celebrit...

From exotic trips in far-flung lands to trips where nothing went right, well-known Irish personalities tell us about their best – and worst – getaways