s masterpiece, before her performance at the National Theatre's Shed The Irish actor Olwen Fouéré's extraordinary riverrun, which is coming into the National Theatre's Shed next month, was born in Australia three years ago on Bloomsday – 16 June, the feast of St James Joyce, when literary pilgrims across the world celebrate the day and night that the author sent Leopold Bloom on his odyssey through...
RNLI lifeboat volunteers rescue four fish farmers after they were caught in extreme weather conditions on Wednesday ...
Northern Ireland abuse inquiry told Sisters of Nazareth thumped and kicked children and regularly humiliated them Nuns at a care home for children in Northern Ireland behaved like they were psychotic, the largest ever inquiry in UK legal history into child abuse has heard. A former child resident told the inquiry on Tuesday that the Sisters of Nazareth in the Termonbacca care home thumped and kicked...
re cold, abrasive, at times incomprehensible. Yeats, for all his clipped delivery and grandiose notions, seems quite avuncular. A brilliant, slightly flaky man, indulging his naive but harmless obsessions, ignoring the country pile crumbling around him . Going through the Irish education system, you couldn't avoid Yeats. He dominated English, he was its heart. For Leaving Certificate English, Yeats...
Pretty much everyone is moving to London and we're always going on about it - so it must be better than the rest of the UK, right? Have your say ...
s president, Michael D Higgins, is under growing pressure to release from prison a friend and cancer-stricken peace activist whose cause is being championed by some of the country's most prominent artists. Family and supporters of the ailing 79-year-old playwright Margaretta D'Arcy have called on Higgins to pardon the anti-war campaigner and secure her early release from Limerick jail, after she was...
s the stuff of nightmares. And with each new headline the rats have become bigger and bigger, so to speak. We relish the opportunity to tell a good ghost story, don't we? But is it true? Chris Reynolds, director of the Irish coast guard , chuckles and says, "The problem you have now is that you can't prove something you don't know." It all began when the Yugoslavian-built ship – named in 1976 after...
s spokesman laughs off questions about missing Soviet cruise ship as coastguard says there is no evidence it is afloat Call off the coastline vigils. Stand down the navy. A ghost ship packed with cannibal rats is, it turns out, unlikely to hit the shores of Britain or Ireland any time soon. True, the salty tale of a runaway ship and its rodent crew made headlines across the world , caused a storm on...
Arcy, the acclaimed Irish writer and peace activist, is serving a three-month prison sentence in Ireland for her protests at the US military use of Shannon airport. She could have avoided the jail term if she had agreed to sign a bond to uphold the law and stay away from unauthorised zones at Shannon. She refused to do so and was taken into custody last Wednesday (15 January). But the Irish authorities...
Mr Lemass says Ireland follows the same rules as the UK when sending live horses to abattoirs abroad Asked by newspaper men in Dublin last night to make a general statement about the horse export trade, the Prime Minister, Mr Lemass, said: "The Government would much prefer to see the trade in horses converted into trade in horsemeat. We hope this will happen. We have offered to give all reasonable...
Gorman at his Castleknock home A man charged with killing his landlord is being held in a Dublin mental hospital, a court has heard. Saverio Bellante was unable to appear at Cloverhill district court in the capital on Friday where he was to face charges over the death of Tom O'Gorman, an advocate of traditional Catholic values in Ireland. The 39-year-old Italian was remanded in custody for a further...
Gorman in Castleknock An Italian man who allegedly cut open his Dublin landlord's chest and tried to eat his heart has admitted murder, a court heard on Monday. Dressed in black, Saverio Bellante, 34, from Palermo, Sicily, appeared at Blanchardstown district court in Dublin on Monday morning, charged over the murder of Tom O'Gorman in what Irish police have described as a very unpleasant, bizarre killing....
Gorman stabbed to death, apparently over a chess move An Italian national is in custody in Dublin after the ritualistic style killing of a man in a murder sparked by a row over a chess match. Tom O'Gorman, 39, was stabbed to death at his home in the Irish capital in the early hours of yesterday morning. The Garda Siochana says there are aspects of the murder that are too gruesome to reveal. It is understood...
Plans by UTV Media, the Belfast-based broadcaster, to launch a TV channel in the Irish Republic are facing opposition from an existing channel, TV3, reports the Sunday Times. TV3 has "voiced grave concerns" about the launch to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) over UTV's application for an Irish television licence. The Irish broadcaster is reportedly "seeking clarity from the BAI on what...
s pension reforms prove divisive Czech Republic: outgoing government opposes amendment to civil service law The outgoing Czech government has come out against a draft amendment to the civil service law put forward by the social democrat party. The outgoing prime minister Jiri Rusnok said the draft legislation is basically unapplicable, and at odds with the constitution with regard to employees' rights....
Among those surfers riding the crest of a wave are Fionn Rogers at Mullaghmore Head in Ireland, Shane Dorian and Peyo Lizarazu at the Belharra break in France, and Joackim Guichard at Praia da Batata beach in Portugal ...
s apology for the Bloody Sunday massacre, describing it for the first time as a "legal protest", but has also reignited controversy by in effect accusing the Dublin government of leaving loyalists with no choice other than to bomb targets in the south at the height of the Troubles. In an unprecedented move, the former first minister of Northern Ireland also said it had been "dangerous" for successive...
Connor, and the division's claims director, Peter Burke, were dismissed over the issue on Wednesday following a disciplinary and appeals process. Its Irish chief executive, Philip Smith, had already resigned after being suspended. RSA also revealed yet more woes, saying that the severe flooding in the UK and Ireland over Christmas and the ice storms in Toronto would hit its 2013 figures further. The...
ve got" and soon afterwards she was subjected to a series of abusive tweets. During his trial Limond tried to pass off his broadcast as a joke. But the sheriff, Scott Pattison, told him it "would cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm." Haggerty, who reports for The Drum, said she was "relieved that this case has been concluded... Mr Limond referred to me as 'Taig of the day' in his podcast...
s first debt sale since exiting bailout helped drive down yields across eurozone's periphery Ireland made a storming return to the international bond market on Tuesday as the bumper demand for the country's first debt sale since exiting its bailout helped drive down yields across the eurozone's periphery. The country's NTMA debt agency sold off €3.75bn of bonds but investors bid more than €14bn (£11.6bn)...