Ireland News

After drilling in the North Celtic Sea Basin, about 40 miles off the Cork coast, Providence Resources Plc said its Barryroe oil field may hold as many as 1.6 billion barrels.

Drogheda's iconic Viaduct was built nearly 160 years ago to link by rail the two largest cities on this island.

Colm Ennis from Waterford and Peter Britton, an engineer with Tipperary County Council, living in Clonmel, who died in a fall on Mont Blanc in the French Alps at the weekend.

A DUBLIN professor of art history has become the first Irishman to be knighted by the ancient Order of Malta in five hundred years.

A portfolio of retail parks held by NAMA has been put on the market for a guide price of 110m.

Marist chaplain Fr Jimmy McElroy has been bringing students from Ireland to the Marist Mission in Ranong, Thailand for the past eight years.

The new cafe will be situated in the Georgian building, 1 Jocelyn Street, the former home of both Mizu Cafe and Riva Townhouse.

Anton McNulty The National Executive of the Irish Farmers Association has been accused of selling out hill and commonage farmers by agreeing to Department of Agriculture proposals for a new environmental scheme.

The WSM have produced an article that puts in context the way the Palestinian land has been stolen from them by the Israeli state.

What Miss America is to this country, the Rose of Tralee is to Ireland. And for the first time in the competition's 55-year-history, a Kentuckian is a finalist for the crown.

Well, of all the headlines you could possibly imagine Star Wars: Episode VII might earn ahead of its release, I bet the above is not one you would have come up with.

Dublin-based One51 plc has had its purchase of British trash bin maker Straight plc cleared by the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority.

Well known for playing the role of businessman Jai Sharma, Chris Bisson has been a well known member of the Emmerdale cast since 2009.

A London-raised singer with Irish-Zambian heritage is climbing the charts on both sides of The Irish Sea with huge support from the Dundalk area where she has family.

On a recent trip across the pond , I visited another "jewel" ... Ireland . Like Seattle, the island of Eire is called emerald for good reason, it rains a lot.

Oliver Schroer was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer. Schroer was a prolific composer, recording ten CDs in 14 years.

The annual 1798 Battle of Vinegar Hill Reenactment is set to take place in the famous battlefield overlooking Enniscorthy town in County Wexford this Saturday and Sunday, August 2 and 3. Picture: Patrick Browne.

One of the two climbers killed in an accident on Mont Blanc in France over the weekend was from Clonmel.

A Donegal man who sexually assaulted a drunk woman after she had fallen asleep has been jailed for two years.

Private 6322 John Condon was one of thousands of lads who lied about their age to fight for their country, he is recorded as the youngest soldier to die in the war In the corner of Poelcapelle cemetery is a grave standing out from the 6,544 other headstones for British soldiers who died near here in the First World War.