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Cousins Connie and Rico Delaney at the Carrowbrowne temporary halting site beside the Headford Road in Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shughnessy
Travellers feel they have been 'left to die' on rat-infested site

A group of 13 Traveller families, including over 40 children, say they feel like they have been “left to die” at a rat-infested site just outside Galw(...)

Irish connection: Denis O’Sullivan, in whose memory the Feis Ceoil awards a medal each year
The son of Skibbereen who sang his way around the world

In September 1898, the Skibbereen Eagle newspaper ran a famous editorial that declared: “We will still keep our eye on the Emperor of Russia and on al(...)

Long live the king? Bertie Ahern is to be invited to rejoin Fianna Fáil. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Bertie Ahern: he hasn’t gone away but where has he come from?

June 1977 Bertie Ahern, a 25- year-old accounts clerk at the Mater hospital in Dublin, stands for Fianna Fáil in the three-seat constituency of Dub(...)