Readers' Report

Emigration has provided a fertile land for the ballad-writer. Peggy Sweeney's "The Emigrant Letter" features many well known emigrant songs including Spancil Hill, Homeland in Mayo and many more...

"If heaven is as good as this I will not worry." Tuam native Pat McGrath describes his life of organic farming in New Zealand. more...

St Patrick’s Day isn't just a national holiday in Ireland - the tiny island of Montserrat marks its strong Irish links with a week-long festival. more...

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's visit to Mexico was of particular interest to reader John Tobin. more...

Paddy Taylor, an Irish-American reader from Akron, Ohio, explains why hurling appeals to him - and how an American Midwestern city acquired its own hurling team. more...

Even away from home, a loyal fan will follow his team. New Yorker Mike Elkin followed his beloved Yankees while living in Spain and London - but Dublin let him down. more...

It will be a Gaelic Football match with a difference – When the 30 players line out on the Dublin pitch, there won’t be one Irishman on the field. Mattie Lennon on a cosmopolitan game. more...

He's mad for Gaelic football - but a year ago Rob Toole didn't even the game existed. An American looks back on his first season in Irish sport. more...

Reader Fiona Slevin's cousin, Robert Gill, was a competitor in the Special Olympics. Robert is a hero to his family, she says - and to all of us. more...

"Two sad plots still haunt me":From the cradle to the grave – Mary Moylan unearths a life-long hereditary addiction. more...

Mary Moylan first imagined the radio to be”. . . tiny people behind the amber lit dial creating all that wonderful sound”, in reality it was an important part of her Irish childhood. more...

Cork-born Mary Moylan writes from Canada that remembers the clay pipes and dancing of her grandparents' days. Now that she's a grandmother herself, she's learning that the world has changed very little. more...

Hazel Larkin reports that Singapore is taking the SARS epidemic seriously - and it's even changing the religious practices of churchgoers. more...