By Laura Collins-Hughes Reporting from Glenties, Ireland Up a steep and grassy windblown hill, in the top row of what’s known as the new graveyard, the playwright Brian Friel lies buried under a ...

Belmullet in Co Mayo, Glenties in Co Donegal, and Bantry-West Cork in Co Cork were the Local Electoral Areas (LEAs) that had more deaths than births in 2021, Ireland’s Central Statistics Office ...

reached a high of 25.8C today – matching the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland in April. The last recorded instance of 25.8C in April was in 1984 in Glenties, Co Donegal. Three ...

The previous record was 25.8C in Glenties, Co Donegal, in April 1984. Highest temperature records for April were broken at 17 weather stations across Ireland, the figures show. Met Éireann added ...