Cloughjordan
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Explore Irish biodiversity– all week long
- Ireland
- May 18, 2019, 06:00
“Mysterious and little-known organisms live within walking distance of where you sit. Splendour awaits . . ” EO Wilson, who first published the term (...)

Estimated 10,000 people strike for climate change
- Environment
- March 15, 2019
Young people across Ireland are protesting this lunchtime at 37 rallies seeking urgent action to address the growing threat of climate breakdown. The(...)

Travelling along the M7 motorway on a grey Tuesday, a ferocious gust of a wind blows open a luggage compartment door on the bus as it makes its way to(...)

‘Treaty ports’ handover recalled at Spike Island 80 years on
- Irish News
- July 12, 2018, 01:00
The 80th anniversary of the handover of the “Treaty ports” was recalled at a ceremony on Spike Island in Cork on Wednesday. In 1938, with tensions mo(...)

Slow down: Crafty ways to reduce stress
- Art & Design
- December 3, 2016, 05:00
“Crafts are a perfect expression of the Slow philosophy,” writes Carl Honoré in his book In Praise of Slow. In my own quest for a slower approach to l(...)

A new way of farming: community schemes changing rural Ireland
- Life & Style
- August 20, 2016, 05:00
Possibly the most unlikely candidate in the 2016 general election was professional surfer Fergal Smith, who ran for the Green Party as “a surfer who h(...)

One hundred years after his execution by firing squad, the people of Cloughjordan in Co Tipperary have unveiled a statue to their native son and signa(...)

Cloughjordan: Inside Ireland’s only ecovillage
- Environment
- December 11, 2015, 01:00
An idea that began in Dublin’s Central Hotel in 1999 – to create Ireland’s first ecovillage – has borne fruit on a 67-acre farm adjoining the village (...)