Wed, 13 May, 2020
Sun, 05 Apr, 2020
Mon, 02 Mar, 2020
Trish Dromey explores a lovely Scandinavian-style architect-designed stone and timber home set in woodland near Ballyvaughan, Co Clare.
Wed, 08 Jan, 2020
West Kerry organic farmers Thomas and Claire O’Connor won the public choice vote in the 2019 National Farming For Nature ambassador awards, sponsored by Bord Bia.
Thu, 31 Oct, 2019
I go for a quick run with Jasper the dog (he runs, I walk)
Thu, 17 Oct, 2019
Fiann Ó Nualláin follows in the footsteps of the Fianna as he explores a province’s hills and vales.
Mon, 14 Oct, 2019
Scientists have discovered fossils in Co Clare that could help them better understand the evolution process.
Thu, 10 Oct, 2019
I just love to take short breaks in Ireland. This time it was west Clare. There’s much to be excited about.
Tue, 08 Oct, 2019
Environmentally, the increasing number of visitors is unintentionally degrading the area that they come to see and admire most in the Burren.
North Clare and its Burren landscape is a barren, yet breath taking part of the country, writes Mimi Murray.
Wed, 02 Oct, 2019
The nature of limestone is defined by severe erosion as the carboniferous rock dissolves. This is seen most dramatically in the Burren, where underground rivers, clints, grykes, and erratics lend dramatic consequence to the landscape. Where limestone outcrops occur off the coast the severe erosion is augmented by the power of the sea producing often exotic shapes.
Sun, 29 Sep, 2019
This cottage-style home on 11 acres has a modern touch — and stunning vistas, writes Trish Dromey.
Sat, 17 Aug, 2019
Let’s have a bit of craic, for the season that’s in it, and forget again for a restful while about all the pressures being imposed on all of us by this chaotic Brexit business, and the likely consequences.
Tue, 30 Jul, 2019
My childhood memories of summer are from growing up in Kilnamona, Co Clare. It all centred around gatherings — gathering the hay in stacks and stuff.
Wed, 24 Jul, 2019
Results of the votes here will not be announced until 10pm tonight due to a European-wide embargo.
Sun, 26 May, 2019
GALWAY chef JP McMahon thinks it should be a national food. Food experts estimate it could create up to 200 jobs in coastal areas. And earlier this month, the Slow Food Festival in the Burren put it centre stage.
Sat, 25 May, 2019
It will involve a series of engagements in Dublin, Westmeath, Galway and Clare, and include a meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and President Michael D Higgins.
Wed, 22 May, 2019
If I handed you a list of the top 10 things to do in Ireland before you die, how many do you reckon you could tick off?
Fri, 10 May, 2019
Forget about building your child’s self-esteem, “it’s for the birds”, says Dr Harry Barry.
Thu, 09 May, 2019
There are many simple steps to help green tourism without limiting your horizons, says Thomas Breathnach
Sat, 04 May, 2019
The sustainable travel movement is here to stay, writes Thomas Breathnach.
Mon, 29 Apr, 2019
With “bird numbers plummeting”, “the insect Armageddon”, and “climate catastrophe only 12 years away”, there’s doom and gloom on the wildlife front.
A hat designer favoured by Lady Gaga, a financial brokerage with 300 clients and a thriving new cleaning and maintenance service, are just three of the 18 finalists through to the Irish Local Development Network CLG (ILDN) National Enterprise Awards on May 16.
Fri, 26 Apr, 2019
EIP funding in the current Rural Development Programme is raising the profile of how farmers can help biodiversity around the country.
Mon, 22 Apr, 2019
The recent splendid spell of weather prompted some readers to inquire if we had yet heard the cuckoo.
Mon, 08 Apr, 2019
The Gael Warning I accurately issued last week can be downgraded somewhat by now, thank heavens.
Tue, 19 Mar, 2019
Plants need to be able to tolerate everything the local climate has to throw at them, says Peter Dowdall.
Mon, 04 Mar, 2019
Pine martens have rich, brown fur; rounded ears and long, bushy tails. They eat a wide variety of food, including mice and rats, fruit, birds, insects and carrion.
Mon, 10 Dec, 2018
The Silver Branch will screen at several cinemas nationwide on various dates, including IFI Dublin from Oct 5. It will screen at Cork’s Triskel Arts Centre for four nights from Nov 26
Thu, 27 Sep, 2018
We were on our way to Ennistymon to eat at Little Fox, a newly opened, super cool café on a corner of Main Street.
Sat, 01 Sep, 2018
I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.”
Mon, 16 Jul, 2018
A €257m, 10-year tourism masterplan for our national parks has been a long time coming, writes Caroline O’Doherty.
Having enjoyed the magic of Co Clare as a youngster, Eoin English retraces his steps — now with his own family in tow.
Sat, 23 Jun, 2018
It’s National Biodiversity Week and there’s hardly a better time for enjoying the outdoors. The Irish Environmental Network has helped organise over 50 free events across the country over nine days, May 19-27. All about encouraging people to connect with nature and celebrate the wildlife, plants and habitats on our doorsteps.
Mon, 21 May, 2018
Some people have reported hearing the cuckoo's call around Mangerton mountain, near Killarney, Co Kerry, writes Donal Hickey
Mon, 07 May, 2018
Forts and Martello towers dotted around Cork Harbour and what was once the biggest gunpowder factory in the British empire could soon be designated as Unesco World Heritage sites.
Wed, 11 Apr, 2018
Inishmaan, Co Galway, is a glorious place but it can be challenging too.
Mon, 26 Mar, 2018
Certainly, there were vegetarian restaurants in Ireland before Café Paradiso but you’d be hard-pressed to imagine any of them being accepted into the fine dining club at the upper end of the market all of 25 years ago when it first opened.
Sat, 03 Mar, 2018
Ellie O’Byrne suggests some interesting ways to spend January 1, to get 2018 off to a great start
Wed, 27 Dec, 2017
Demands have been made for the ESB to be held accountable for the “butchery” of the Gearagh and for the formation of a group to manage and protect the area.
Wed, 06 Dec, 2017
Sat, 02 Dec, 2017
‘Traffic bottlenecks’ are developing on the Wild Atlantic Way tourist route in peak season. Fáilte Ireland has said long delays and capacity issues are “negatively affecting the visitor experience”, according to an internal brief.
Mon, 13 Nov, 2017
Ellie O’Byrne picks her top eight events for Halloween
Mon, 16 Oct, 2017
Far too many four and five-star hotels in Ireland are under-performing and proving a disappointment to high-paying guests, according to Georgina Campbell, the woman behind the annual hospitality awards.
Wed, 04 Oct, 2017
Update 7.23pm: The search for a man missing off the coast of Co Clare is being wound down this evening, but will resume again tomorrow.
Sun, 17 Sep, 2017
Manchán Magan is in the midst of a new radio series that taps into the weird and wonderful aspects of Ireland’s natural heritage, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler.
Tue, 22 Aug, 2017
THE theme song for the 1960s TV sitcom Green Acres had as its opening line “Green Acres is the place to be. Farm livin’ is the life for me. Land spreadin’ out so far and wide, Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.”
Sat, 12 Aug, 2017
DON’T use the weather as an excuse. Get out there, says Donal Hickey.
Mon, 07 Aug, 2017
Documentary The Silver Branch is a cinematic love letter to two Clare farmers, and their insights into a dying way of life, says Louise Roseingrave
Thu, 13 Jul, 2017
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