Trinity College Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

Dublin comes out on top when it comes to a broad range of quality of life indicators, according to the latest report from the Central Statistic(...)

Local communities will be asked to consider contributing to the cost of road repairs. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Local communities are to be asked to contribute up to half the cost of repairs to their roads, as part of a State-wide scheme being promoted by(...)

Kilkenny’s Michael Fennelly (centre) scores the opening goal against Tipperary in the league final at Nowlan Park.  Photograph: Cathal Noonan/Inpho

Kilkenny’s Michael Fennelly is a doubt for the hurling championship opener against Offaly next month after injuring his ankle in a club game la(...)

Quirky: a limestone mushroom sculpted by the lapping waves of a vanished lake. Illustration: Michael Viney

For a long time, for me, the midland counties were just a wearily protracted obstacle between Dublin and the west: in the days before motorways(...)

Here we go – again. The fields and parks are calling, the PA hire companies are loading their wares onto trucks and promoters are crossing their fi(...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny with Jim O’Sullivan, organising committee, Beara-Breifne Way (left) and Michael Starrett, chief executive, Heritage Council (right) at the launch of the Beara-Breifne Way Heritage Stamps and Walking Passport for the longest walking trail in Ireland. Photograph: Gary O’ Neill

ÓRLA RYAN SEVERAL LOCAL groups have come together to undertake Ireland’s largest ever community based project – a 500km walkway. B(...)

Unemployment, housing and poverty: all areas where younger people have been hit harder.

Those aged under 45 have been affected “dramatically” more by the property crash and recession than those 45 and over, according to a new resea(...)

New innovator

In 1995, businessman Frank Forde came up with an idea for a device to prevent chimney fires. The system won a national innovation award and wen(...)

President Barack Obama will visit Belfast before joining the G8 summit in Fermanagh next month to urge Stormont leaders to cou(...)

A tandem parachute passenger required lifesaving medical attention after a rare equipment malfunction lead to him and his instructor crash-landing (...)

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