Department Of Culture
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Protected structures at risk across country, says surveyor
- Heritage
- March 8, 2019, 02:00
Protected structures in rural villages throughout the country are boarded up, with many in danger of collapsing because the owners cannot afford to pr(...)
Travel Bag: fancy Japan or Sri Lanka? Brú na Bóinne? Or Mallorca or Powerscourt Hotel?
- Travel
- February 23, 2019, 06:00
Top Trips Japan and Sri Lanka are the latest additions to the top-10 long-haul bookings list according to holiday specialists Travel Counsellors(...)
Forty actions agreed to address Ireland’s ‘biodiversity crisis’
- Environment
- February 21, 2019, 21:14
A series of 40 actions to address a biodiversity crisis facing Ireland have been announced by a coalition of Government departments, State agencies, e(...)
Creative schools initiative to be rolled out to 150 schools
- Education
- February 14, 2019, 19:59
An initiative that sees artists work with children and young people will be rolled out to a further 150 schools across the country this year(...)
Monkstown site given green light for 56 homes
- Commercial Property
- February 6, 2019, 05:00
A contentious planning battle near chic Monkstown village in south Co Dublin appears to have ended after An Bord Pleanála gave the gree(...)
‘One of the biggest challenges facing us is to define Irish identity in a post-Brexit world’
- Heritage
- January 31, 2019, 05:00
Virginia Teehan is “so happy for myself”. This might apply to her appointment as the new chief executive officer (CEO) for the Heritage Council on the(...)
Skellig Michael visitor numbers exceed ‘sustainable’ cap by almost 6,000
- Heritage
- January 13, 2019, 20:32
The number of visitors landing on the Unesco World Heritage site of Skellig Michael off the coast of Kerry is one and a half times what is considered (...)
Tetrapod footprint site in Kerry closes temporarily
- Irish News
- January 4, 2019, 20:12
The site of Ireland’s 365 million-year-old tetrapod footprints on Valentia Island in Kerry has been temporarily closed to the public. The tracks whi(...)
Immense timber structure found at ‘sacred’ Newgrange site during summer drought
- Heritage
- December 21, 2018
The full scale of archaeological discoveries at Newgrange revealed by the summer drought has been described as “staggering”. A series of “immense” ti(...)
Vote 100: Events to mark the centenary of the vote for women in Ireland
- Heritage
- December 10, 2018, 02:00
Dáil Éireann: The First 100 Years, 1919-2019 Tuesday, December 11th; Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin; €20/€10 The Houses of the Oireachtas (...)
