Grainne Hassett

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Body and Soul 2019: festival stage times revealed

Body & Soul Music and Arts Festival has announced the full stage times for its 10th Aniversary celebration of the summer solstice which kicks off (...)

Kelly’s Resort Hotel in Rosslare, Co Wexford
Profits jump at Kelly’s in Rosslare as confidence returns

Profits at the four-star Kelly’s Resort Hotel in Rosslare increased by 12 per cent in 2016 as a “bit more confidence” returned to the economy, the com(...)

Migrants walk past French policemen to climb in buses as they leave the Jules Ferry reception centre, next to the recently demolished “Jungle” in Calais. Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images
What next for the children of the Calais ‘Jungle’?

Alawi (17), a quiet, polite, shy young man from Syria, has lost his entire family. From the Deir ez-Zor region, scene of intense internecine fighting (...)

The remains of makeshift shelters on the site of the refugee and migrant camp in Calais, France, on Monday. Photograph: Philippe Hilippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images
FG’s Regina Doherty says taking Calais minors a ‘no-brainer’

Ireland should take in 200 unaccompanied minors who are stranded in Calais, France, Government chief whip Regina Doherty has said. Ms Doherty last n(...)

Truck driver Joe Druhan: ‘We don’t use service stations on motorways in France any more, as traffickers are taking people up and down in minibuses, looking for Irish- and English-registered vehicles.’ Photograph: Kathleen Harris
Inhabitants of Calais ‘Jungle’ treated ‘like cattle’, say Irish volunteers

Irish volunteers working with migrants in France have described as “inhumane” the manner in which the migrant camp known as the Calais “Jungle” is bei(...)

Artist’s D4 home for €1.25m

If there was a ever a house to provide you with the space to be creative, it must be Bernadette Madden’s home on Grand Canal Street Upper. From the(...)

A makeshift shelter burns in the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, during the ongoing demolition of the camp’s southern half. Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images
French forces demolish Calais ‘Jungle’ and hopes of refugees

In the midst of a hail storm, a Syrian refugee called Ismail tore off his anorak and shirt and exposed his naked chest to the pounding ice pellets, s(...)