It might not be the biggest parade in the world but Dublin is surely one of the best spots to be for the St Patrick’s Day bash.

Details of this year's St Patrick's Festival has been announced, with organisers promising it will be best yet.

Of the recent conviction of Travellers for the infamous sulky races, I have two opinions.

Last week I consulted documentation relating to my house insurance which was due to expire that night. The idea was to go to the office next day and pay the premium.

Kerry could earn an additional €150m from The Gathering next year, according to the tourism industry.

There has been a lot of talk and fuss about The Gathering or, as I call it, the ‘Spend thousands to come home, go on the piss for a few weeks, and then feck off back to wherever you came from’ event.

The head of Tourism Ireland has insisted that 'The Gathering' is a "spectacular celebration of what it means to be Irish".

The tens of thousands of people expected to visit Ireland next year for The Gathering — the great welcome home festival — will come to a country utterly different to the one they might have left a few short years ago.

As we approach winter, drastic pruning and reduction is needed, says Charlie Wilkins.

The organisers of next year’s major tourism initiative, The Gathering have rejected suggestions that their target of attracting 325,000 extra overseas tourists to Ireland in 2013 is over-ambitious.

London club Kilburn Gaels retained the Tom Semple Cup at the International Hurling Festival in Thurles at the weekend, beating Dunboyne of Meath in the final by 2-7 to 0-9.

Kerry could be the location for a Hollywood blockbuster based on the life and adventures of mythological hero Cúchulainn.

PLANS to bring the Diaspora home for ‘The Gathering’ festival to boost the Irish economy in 2013 have helped to send the Irish Open north of the border this summer.