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<p>Get ready for rain if you see the famous Lahinch Golf Club goats heading for home. Picture: @LahinchGolfClub</p>

outdoors

Homeward-bound goats, 'white horses' and adventurous gulls — all weather forecasters if you know how to understand them

Some unofficial meteorologists say animals are amazing with an apparent ability to sense changes in the atmosphere and impending weather

<p>Trees, plants and flowers look greener and healthier after a good dose of ‘soft’ rain seeping into the roots... far better than hydrating with treated water which contains chemicals such as fluoride and chlorine</p>

outdoors

Midges, dogs, spiders, and fog were all once used to predict weather

<p>Irish Spurge (Euphorbia hyberna) is one of the so-called Lusitanian species, found almost exclusively in Cork/Kerry and northern Spain/Portugal.</p>

outdoors

Bloom time for spurge, the plant once used to catch fish

One Funny Cat in Front of the Fireplace

outdoors

Donal Hickey: Weather folklore to blow you away — or is it all just hot air?

9 things you didn't know about holly, our favourite Christmas plant

outdoors

Donal Hickey: Early berries a sign of a harsh winter ahead?

Telling the bees: Why this ancient mourning tradition has endured

outdoors

Telling the bees: Why this ancient mourning tradition has endured

apple eating race. Food On A String game. Activity for halloween party

Donal Hickey: Does winter start on November 1 or in December?

The Halloween/Samhain tradition marked the end of the farming year, with all the harvest in and animals housed for the harsh season ahead. Crops to feed animals and people were stored away safely — and it was a time to celebrate

Thu, 24 Oct, 2024

EU Referendum - The Border Lands Separating Northern And Southern Ireland

Donal Hickey: Don't take chances with a fairy tree — even if you're not spooked by a púca

Very few people are prepared to damage a fairy fort or a fairy tree in any way because of superstition and a fear that harm could come to them if they did

Thu, 27 Oct, 2022

Barn Owl

Donal Hickey: Have you heard a banshee wailing? It might have been a barn owl

The Irish name for the barn owl is ‘screachog reilige’ (graveyard screecher) and that explains why its nocturnal cry might unsettle folk

Mon, 14 Feb, 2022