‘If you want to get a job immediately in Brussels, speak Irish and do a law degree’ – The Irish Times
Lying at the centre of the European Union and hosting many of its key institutions, Brussels is a…
‘Ireland is a little speedboat whereas Germany is a giant tanker’ – The Irish Times
Serial entrepreneur Ian Hannigan’s journey to Germany started on an Irish Rail trip around the turn of the…
Irish in Europe: ‘I love how affordable it is. There’s none of your €8 pints’ – The Irish Times
More than 100,000 Irish citizens live in other EU states, owing to the bloc’s rights to freedom of…
Irish GP in the UK: I still dream of moving home, as a year away has become 20 – The Irish Times
‘So, how are you getting back?” the barman in Lahinch asked my husband as he placed the creamy…
‘The maddest job’: How competitive video games led one Wicklow native to Norway – The Irish Times
A casual interest in the computer game series Counter-Strike led Co Wicklow-native Sam Molloy into running the commercial…
An Irishman in Switzerland: Dinner costs the same as at home, but salaries are far higher – The Irish Times
I recently hosted my nephew for a few days in Grandvaux, Switzerland. Twenty-one, and an exceptionally talented drummer,…
When my first child was born the distance from Ireland became a physical ache – The Irish Times
When you become an immigrant, you are perpetually falling between two stools, inhabiting a cultural gap that neither…
I always felt safe here. Since Bondi, I check for escape routes – The Irish Times
Scarborough Beach in Perth may lack the global recognition of Bondi but shares many of its characteristics: the…
‘Parisians are the Dubs of France, nobody speaks to each other on the metro’ – The Irish Times
This article is part of Letters Home for Christmas, an Irish Times series exploring views about Ireland among…
‘You’d have to have been a turkey not to have made money in venture capital in 1997’ – The Irish Times
Faced with deciding what to do when he left school, Fergal Mullen made the snap decision to study…
The Waterford photographer who took a trip to Iceland and stayed there – The Irish Times
An accomplished landscape and travel photographer from Ring in Co Waterford, Sibéal Turraoin and her aunt, the musician…
Australia offers me a more dignified life than the one I had in Ireland. It’s not unpatriotic to say so – The Irish Times
Even all the way from Australia, the tedium and generally hopeless mood around the election was palpable. As…