There should be a “serious rethink” of the Government’s planned crackdown on short-term letting (STL) “before irreparable ...

The Irish Government is implementing a plan to re-energize rural areas by turning pubs into workspaces and community hubs. Over the years small villages and towns in Ireland have suffered from ...

Journalist Ger Leddin has just returned to Ireland after living for seven years in Spain and has rekindled his grá for the Irish rural pub and appreciates the vital part it plays in the community. I ...

The tension between landlord and peasant is the background for the story of Sean O’Meara, a peasant boy in his late teens ...

The 12th day after Christmas Day is traditionally celebrated as the Feast of the Epiphany, but was known in Ireland as Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas) or Little Christmas. It was a day when roles ...

This restored 19th century farmhouse, which lies on the edge of the county town of Wexford in the South East of Ireland, is owned by bestselling author Eoin Colfer. Mr. Colfer created the hugely ...

When John “J.J.” Berdon joined Ireland’s semi-state peat harvesting company in 1980, he thought he had a job for life. The 58-year-old lives just a few minutes’ drive from his place of work as a truck ...

Misha was living in a hotel in a leafy suburb of Ireland’s capital city under the country’s controversial asylum seeker accommodation system when a letter arrived. She had been waiting months for a ...

With 50,000 Ukrainians now finding sanctuary in Ireland, the largest number of refugees the country has ever accepted is merging with locals in homogeneous rural villages. By Megan Specia ARRANMORE ...

But also, mid-century Ireland. I kept thinking of that country across the Atlantic as I read our series last week on rural depopulation. Needless to say, the Emerald Isle and Alabama’s Black Belt are ...