Dublin hurlers are not the first team to face this admittedly welcome predicament, and they won’t be the last either.

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D on O’Doherty was a mainstay of local radio in the north west for yonks. He started off with BBC Radio Foyle in Derry in the ...

Effigies of rap trio Kneecap and an Irish language slogan urging people to “kill your local Kneecap” have been burnt on a bonfire.

Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister, Andrew Muir, has said he is “very disappointed” that an Eleventh Night bonfire was ...

For Galway’s Paul Conroy and Cork’s Katie Quirke, playing in Croke Park on the All-Ireland stage with their teammates is so much more than just a Gaelic football match. It represents all the early ...

Of all the bugs I’ve known – from ants to aphids, from fleas to fruit flies – I like my travel bug the best. I was bitten early. After college, when I absolutely couldn’t decide what I wanted to do ...

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An Irish-language teacher whose class was targeted with leaflets saying "English is our mother tongue" has said the incident made people more determined to learn.

An encounter near Barcelona’s Sagrada Família taught me a lesson about other tourists I was in Barcelona, near the Sagrada Família: tourist central. Everyone was narky Expand ...

Hozier, the first Irish artist to headline at Boston's Fenway Park, made sure to weave nods to his Irish heritage into his well-received performance.