When John “J.J.” Berdon joined Ireland’s semi-state peat harvesting company in 1980, he thought he had a job for life. The 58-year-old lives just a few minutes’ drive from his place of work as a truck ...

The Irish Government is implementing a plan to re-energize rural areas by turning pubs into workspaces and community hubs. Over the years small villages and towns in Ireland have suffered from ...

With 50,000 Ukrainians now finding sanctuary in Ireland, the largest number of refugees the country has ever accepted is merging with locals in homogeneous rural villages. By Megan Specia ARRANMORE ...

DUBLIN, March 29 (Reuters) - Ireland will turn vacant buildings in rural towns into remote working hubs and examine whether pubs could be used as workspaces during quiet afternoons in a bid to ...

A rural Irish community survived a succession of climate shifts and other threats over the past 1000 years, a study of pollen preserved in peat has revealed. The finding suggests that societies can ...

The 12th day after Christmas Day is traditionally celebrated as the Feast of the Epiphany, but was known in Ireland as Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas) or Little Christmas. It was a day when roles ...

This restored 19th century farmhouse, which lies on the edge of the county town of Wexford in the South East of Ireland, is owned by bestselling author Eoin Colfer. Mr. Colfer created the hugely ...

Journalist Ger Leddin has just returned to Ireland after living for seven years in Spain and has rekindled his grá for the Irish rural pub and appreciates the vital part it plays in the community. I ...

Misha was living in a hotel in a leafy suburb of Ireland’s capital city under the country’s controversial asylum seeker accommodation system when a letter arrived. She had been waiting months for a ...

Ireland has lodged an emergency request for help with the EU for high capacity mobile generators, coming amid fears that over 100,000 people could be without power into next month. As ESB Networks ...

Satellite Data analyzed by scientists from ICHEC (Irish Centre for High-End Computing) using European Space Agency Sentinel 5-P satellite data shows evidence of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) emissions in a ...