As fantasy, festivals and a little bit of magic dust combine today in honour of International Fairy Day, Nuala Woulfe talks to Ireland’s fairy experts.

In the old Irish calendar the day after St Patrick's Day is Sheelah's Day but what is less known is that Sheelah was Patrick’s wife.

Teagasc in partnership with Galway County Council will stage Farming and Country Life 1916, Ireland’s largest rural 1916 commemorative.

Halloween is a mish-mash of many cultures, but its roots can be found in Ireland’s pagan tradition, writes Carl Dixon.