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This week, the city of Sligo will once again be hosting the single largest cultural event in the North West of Ireland – the 17th

Had I been told a few years ago that it would be an offence to light up in a pub in Ireland in 2004, I

I put the key in the door of the little one-hundred-year-old cottage, pushed the door open, and stood for a moment in the entrance hallway.

If you were to look in a local phone-book, the names Gethins, Hudson and Gilmore (all surnames which turn up in the deeds for Kevinsfort

Woven tapestry is one of the oldest and richest mural arts, and can be traced right back to the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Native North

With new nations joining the EU all the time, not only will theseface nations make it more difficult for their bullying neighbours to re-invade, but

I am only too aware of the efforts that need to be made to preserve a nation’s native tongue, but the more I travel worldwide,

In the late 1990s, when the relatively unknown Scottish soccer team Inverness Caledonian Thistle surprisingly beat Glasgow Celtic by 5 goals to 1, the following

Cian – we worship you, we magnify your greatness for saving our nation from the embarrassment of yet another ‘no-medal Olympics’. As Cian O’Connor soars

We have heard a lot about Ireland’s growing cost of living, and how our little Emerald nation of the 100,000 welcomes has begun to scare