A crowd of hundreds turned up at Dublin’s Phoenix Park Wednesday evening to take in the rare sight of a partial solar eclipse ...

Laois emerged with the highest rate of drug offences mostly due to 387 offences recorded at the station in Stradbally in 2025. The small Laois village which hosts the annual Electric Picnic festival ...

Consumers have been warned that grocery prices will soar in the coming months as drought and rising energy prices hit food producers with a “polycrisis of costs”. Food bills for a family could rise by ...

There are plenty of performers we like and admire. Can there be anyone who doesn’t enjoy watching, for example, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Dern or the late, much-missed Charles Grodin? There are ...

Dublin grandmother Helen Reddy had worked hard to reach peak fitness and was looking forward to another triathlon last year when she received the life-changing diagnosis of breast cancer. The ...

Filled with pre-owned portraits of big-eyed children, high stacks of delph, lampshades large enough to dominate a room and sewing notions waiting to be turned into something new, Maggie Molloy’s new ...

Most people spent lockdown getting into sourdough or Tiger King. I spent it taking photos of the sky – mostly the moon. When every day felt the same, the changing sky was the only thing worth ...

However successful or high-achieving someone seems, you never know what problems or suffering they may have privately faced. When I was a schoolgirl in Dublin many years ago, the cleverest girl we ...

It was 50 years ago when Eric McMillan found himself staring at a jar of pickled onions, imagining what it would be like to be small enough to swim among the bobbing shallots. He had an epiphany. What ...

Dublin woman was sentenced to two years and two months in prison, with 14 months suspended Nurse Enya and teacher Dearbhla have taken a break from their busy day jobs to run the family business full ...

Dublin’s three county councils are owed more than €23m in unpaid social housing rent, with more than 10,500 council tenancies currently in arrears. Figures released to the Irish Independent show South ...

A ban on so-called zero-hours contracts could cost businesses up to £3bn (€3.5bn) a year, according to a UK government analysis. But proposed reforms are still expected to “support growth” by ...