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# EXTRACT

All time
Kevin Barry: 'Sometimes writing no longer seems like the thing I do, it seems like the thing I am'
Kevin Barry
25 Dec 2016
4.6k
5
Dutch legend Johan Cruyff on how he learned to play football
24 Dec 2016
7.0k
'The Irish team were heading for some godforsaken place called Keetmanshoop'
23 Dec 2016
7.9k
'I died on an operating table in a hospital in Buenos Aires'
22 Dec 2016
10.9k
1
'There were several people who were my father'
21 Dec 2016
10.2k
2
''I wanted to say: 'You’re bullying me, Dad, don’t beat me like this, talk to me'''
21 Dec 2016
26.8k
13
'The majority of the female population doesn’t engage in sport... Why is that?'
20 Dec 2016
8.1k
10
The man trapped in a POW camp 2 decades after winning Olympic gold
20 Dec 2016
17.9k
1
The Invisible Art: Why have Irish composers been ignored for so long?
Michael Dervan
10 Nov 2016
1.0k
6
A story before bedtime: 'The Cure for Too Much Feeling'
Bernie McGill
9 Nov 2016
379
3
Boomtown Rats, condoms and unemployment: Memories of Dublin in the 70s and 80s
7 Nov 2016
17.5k
11
Mary O'Rourke's letter to Sheryl Sandberg: I have never believed in the glass ceiling for women
Mary O'Rourke
9 Oct 2016
740
48
'I knew it had to happen, but the reality was that stepping away from the panel terrified me'
Alan O'Mara
11 Sep 2016
302
8
'There was nothing to smile about here. He was in trouble and it startled me'
15 Aug 2016
17.1k
12
'We were walking through the flats and it came up in conversation. My Dad asked if I was gay'
Patrick Dempsey
11 May 2016
1.0k
73
This Irish rebel smuggled bomb detonators under her coat and often dressed as a boy
Peter Geoghegan
27 Mar 2016
364
17
Ever wondered why Montserrat have a day off for St Patrick's Day too?
Laura McAtackney and Krysta Ryzewski
17 Mar 2016
13.1k
31
The Bishop and the Nightie - how Gaybo scandalised the nation
14 Feb 2016
37.6k
40
How Germany were literally made to sweat for the 2014 World Cup
26 Dec 2015
7.1k
2
'The King Henry tag has never sat easy with me'
23 Dec 2015
7.7k
4
Irish women have an aversion to compliments. They rebuff them with: ‘Thanks, Penneys’ best’
Emma Comerford
25 Oct 2015
4.9k
56
'I was an Irish-born soldier in the British Army during the Troubles. People just couldn't understand it'
Alan Barry
21 Oct 2015
16.3k
96
'I was stuck in a cycle of self-harm. I didn’t want to get out of it but I couldn’t get out of it either'
25 Sep 2015
24.4k
3
The KAL case kickstarted a decade of debate on marriage equality
In The Name of Love by Una Mullally
12 Dec 2014
508
34
Extract: The role of the media in the Irish economic crisis
Julien Mercille
19 Oct 2014
1.3k
29
Keane reveals head-butting Peter Schmeichel during pre-season tour
6 Oct 2014
15.2k
7
Extract: 16 Dead Men – The Easter Rising Executions
Anne-Marie Ryan
21 Sep 2014
4.8k
38
Short Story: The Oyster Catchers
Beth Tyrrell
1 Jul 2014
324
6
Extract: How 'throwing at cocks' took root in Ireland
James Kelly
11 May 2014
443
15
Extract: ‘Soldiers have an affinity with the detainees in Guantanamo. It would be bad to shoot them – it’ll be lethal injection’
Tom Clonan
16 Dec 2013
249
27
My journey to complete an old Premier League sticker album
20 Nov 2013
4.8k
10
Extract: This crisis shows the old ways have failed – and we’re on the cusp of new discoveries
Robert Nielsen
30 Sep 2013
99
38
Extract: I watched my father walk free from court after confessing to raping me
Fiona Doyle
28 Sep 2013
822
17
Extract: How is Generation Y reconciling high expectations with the economic reality?
Padraig Mannion
27 Sep 2013
384
17
Extract: Ireland planned to ask the UK for help if Germany invaded in WW2
Michael Kennedy
1 Sep 2013
3.3k
103
Extract: If we want to get more done, we need to start a war with our televisions
Ruth Field
22 May 2013
184
29
Extract: How I got back in the driving seat with the banks
George Mordaunt
5 May 2013
430
96
Extract: From the roof of the College of Surgeons, the Volunteers watched the city burn
Paul O'Brien
1 Apr 2013
1.3k
28
Extract: 'The Financial Regulator investigating what went wrong at Irish Nationwide is a unique piece of Irish irony'
Tom Lyons and Richard Curran
3 Mar 2013
310
44
Extract: 'We must anticipate war' - 1945 Irish diplomats on the threat of World War III
Michael Kennedy
17 Feb 2013
392
22
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