Ireland Travel News

The waiting lists are growing with 465 more young people in this predicament compared to two years ago.

The first formal border checks between Britain and Ireland in more than 80 years have been proposed by the two governments.

A trio of English cocaine smugglers who were caught after putting the wrong fuel into their boat received the longest drug-related prison sentences in Irish history Wednesday.

Cross-border harmonisation of laws governing alcohol will be discussed today by government ministers from the north and south of Ireland.

"Isn't it marvelous that we leave Ireland, with its 40 shades of green, in the morning, and land at DIA, seeing 40 shades of brown in the evening?" commented the group leader of a Go Ahead Tours Walking the ...

Lovely views of the River Shannon --------Savory Irish cuisine ------Contemporary rooms done up in warm tones ---Brazilian prostitutes All that and more is yours for the asking at the Hilton Limerick Hotel.

Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore tonight turned down an invitation to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy dubbing proposed talks a sound bite type return of the debate on the Lisbon Treaty.

Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, has set a deadline of the end of this year to overcome the impasse over Ireland's rejection of Europe's new charter.

PEOPLE TRAVELLING to Britain from Ireland will be obliged to carry photographic proof of identity under planned new British legislation.

More details are emerging about the planned visit to Ireland next week by controversial French President Nicholas Sarkozy.

More than 33 million Americans claim Irish ancestry. That's almost 10 times the population of Ireland.

PLANS FOR French president Nicolas Sarkozy to meet in public with anti-Lisbon Treaty campaigners have been scrapped, following last-minute nervousness by the French side.

One-hundred-year-old Mary Ann Walsh and her 94-year-old brother Jim Campbell pictured at a re-union in Bohola recently.

On my first visit to Ireland many years ago, our tour guide described the Irish as a happy people with a sad past.

'NO matter what kind of Irish weather we encountered - mist, broad sunshine or bracing rain - Heatons Guesthouse afforded an enchanting vantage point for enjoying Dingle.

THE Celtic Tiger, the economic engine that roared in the 1990s, may have softened to a purr today, but Dublin still basks in a newfound prosperity.

Rumours are rife in a small rural Irish town that a lucky American tourist bought the winning Euromillions ticket on July 4 - netting him 15m.

A Fine Gael Senator has called on the Seanad to invite US presidential hopeful Barack Obama to Ireland.

MORE than 20,000 passengers were stranded by cancelled flights into and out of Dublin Airport and thousands more face further cancellations or long delays today.

"You guys should stop spending money on gadgets," said my father to my brother and me last week.