Coilin O'Connor

The Czech Republic's biggest internet portal has just published a list of the most frequent searchwords used on its website in 2003. Although the results are similar to…

It is now 35 years since the young history student Jan Palach died after setting himself on fire in protest at the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Last Thursday…

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Czech cultural journal Pritomnost, which published its first issue in January 1924. Down through the years, the publication has…

As the Czech Republic gears up for EU accession, there has been much discussion in the media regarding the structural funds the country hopes to receive from the European…

Just under a decade ago, the Czech television station TV Nova became the first commercial TV station in the former Eastern Bloc. It has since become the most successful…

The Czech national team is well placed at the halfway stage of the qualification campaign for the European women's football championship, which is to be held in England in…

Visitors to Prague may notice that - unlike many other major cities - you very rarely see a stray dog on the streets here. Perhaps this is partly down to the fact that…

Less than a century ago, there were 230 million Muslims in the world, which at that time comprised one seventh of the world's population. Today, adherents of Islam account…

The huge changes that have occurred in this country over the past decade or so become even more apparent around Christmas time. Whereas before 1989, Christmas was…

Every summer, at the height of the holiday season, it is sometimes hard to hear Czech spoken on the streets of Prague. This is because the city is so full of visitors…