Artist João Brutto Adnet created this tragic cling film scene on Grafton Street, linking the Irish Famine with the starvation children are suffering in Gaza.

Residents of the highest village in Ireland turned out in their droves last Saturday night to take part in a bon voyage party for local girl Nancy Lehane who is this year’s Cork Rose.

Wexford County Council has been urged to take urgent action on a derelict and dangerous building in Wexford town, which is “being used as a playground” by children younger than ten years old.

The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council (NCPC) has warned that there are signs of a potential repeat of the loss of economic dynamism that preceded the Celtic Tiger bust.

A man who ran what was described as an ‘amateurish’ drug supply business has been given a five-year suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Court.

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres (16 feet) and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and across the Pacific on ...

There has been a fall in petrol prices at the forecourts this month, with diesel prices holding steady. Unleaded petrol now averages €1.73 per litre, according to the latest monthly fuel price survey ...

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Gardaí have launched an investigation following the discovery of man’s body in the village of Kilgarvan. The tragic discovery was made just off Main Street in the early hours of this morning, July 30.

Rescuers comprising local mountaineers and porters resumed efforts on Wednesday to reach injured German Olympic gold medalist Laura Dahlmeier on a peak in northern Pakistan, officials said.

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres (16 feet) and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and across the Pacific on ...

Members of the Wicklow Vintage Club and the Friends of Ferguson came together recently to cut organic oats that will be threshed at the Tinahely Agricultural Show as part of the ever-popular vintage ...