Dunfanaghy

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Frequent visitor to Ireland during the Emergency? German second World War U-boat. Photograph: iStock
Pubs and Subs: rumour and reality of German U-boats in wartime Ireland

It was a persistent rumour of the war years, popular with the Irish government’s critics in Britain, that German U-boats refuelled regularly along Ire(...)

Dawn Bateman (right), her husband Chris and children Samy and Pippa are pictured at their home in the Northern Territory in Australia.
Learning online when school is a nine-hour drive away

Dawn Bateman grew up on the remote and beautiful Horn Head near Dunfanaghy in Co Donegal, attending Holy Trinity National School and later Pobalscoil (...)

Siún Ní Raghallaigh, CEO Ardmore Studios. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Movie executive who believes if she builds it they will come

Behind the security gates of Ardmore Studios outside Bray is a phantasmal world dedicated to some of the great characters of gothic horror literature.(...)