It’s possible the mystery island was based on shoals to the west of Ireland, or that its occa­sional appearance was the result of a weather inversion, which can make distant objects appear to ...

The Ceol na Mara Youth Orchestra were delighted when Mayo born composer Patrick Cassidy visited their rehearsal and ...

Northern Ireland’s World Heritage Site is being damaged by visitors leaving coins in the cracks of the famous stones. Scores of coins have been left wedged into the cracks of the basalt rock columns ...

On Tuesday evening last, in the beautiful city of Milan in Italy, Ireland West Airport hosted a special networking event with key Italian trade and tour operators. The event was organised in ...

For each of the last two seasons, the Ulster MFC finalists have gone on to contest the All-Ireland MFC final and Tyrone and Cavan will be hoping to today’s provincial decider is only beginning ...

A CONFIDENT debut novel by Donegal author Alan Murrin set in the 1990s when divorce was still illegal in Ireland delves into the lives of three women trapped by marriage. The Coast Road is set against ...

Several plots to assassinate him were laid, and one desperate attempt was made near Ashtown, a few miles outside Dublin, when he was returning from the West of Ireland, where he had been on a ...

They were contacted by the sisters in residence at Kylemore Abbey, the magnificent Benedictine monastery in Connemara; who hired them to do the fit-out for their new contemporary accommodation at ...

Many Irish were already living in harsh conditions before the famine. Seeing the extreme poverty in the west of Ireland in 1835, the French journalist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville ...

Witness the best of Irish storytelling this year at Ireland’s national theatre. The Irish Times has teamed up with the Abbey Theatre to give one lucky Irish Times reader the chance to win a ...

Ireland opener Andrew Balbirnie struck a ninth one-day international century to lead his side to a 124-run win over West Indies in the first of a three-match series. Balbirnie (112 from 138 balls ...