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My late grandfather Frank Houlihan was an Iron Worker who fell to his death while working on a building in 1916, leaving behind my dad, (who was 12...

Sunday next is a big day for the women players of Gaelic football. After playing championship games before small attendances all over the country t...

Pic of Day: Tom McGrath with Bill Burniston, Strength Coach for the Carolina Hurricanes, and the formidable Stanley Cup which recently made an appe...

The Ring of Kerry, the 110-mile coastal route (N70) around the Iveragh Peninsula, is one of the most popular driving routes in all of Ireland. Ther...

Glen Hansard was a friend, and a lovely man who loved to play and lived for the moment he walked on stage. He may have seemed casual but, from his ...

Pic of Day: Taoiseach Micheál Martin meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at Farmleigh House in Dublin. The two leaders had much to discus...

Oscar winning Irish singer/songwriter Glen Hansard has died in a single vehicle motorcycle crash in Dublin. Hansard, 56, first achieved fame as Out...

Shamrock Rovers were the first League of Ireland to play a game in Europe and Dalymount Park was the venue for their 6-0 loss to Manchester United ...

In the media yoke this week is “Rule of Three,” the new album from fiddle player Maura Shawn Scanlin. Joined by John Doyle (guitar and bouzouki), D...

Amid all the alarming reports of fires, floods and heat domes around the world in recent weeks and months there was a report that, in only a slight...

Pic of Day: Before returning in triumph to Mayo the county's footballers brought the Sam Maguire Cup to Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin...

A pub in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands ran out of beer amid the celebrations for Mayo's All-Ireland win. This might not have been the only global...

Almost every language has a word for “goodbye,” but none were uttered by the gathering of 18 friends that took place in Connolly’s Pub and Restaura...

There are people who insist that modern Irish society is too educated to believe in curses and superstitions. These people have never spent much ti...

FÉILE an Phobail is the launch pad each year of exiting new projects, and especially new books. One such book this year is ‘Women’s Voices, Hopes f...