Sorting out Cork people for ages

The number of students learning through Irish in schools and early education is targeted to double, as the development of the first comprehensive policy on Irish-medium education is announced.

Culture Minister Josepha Madigan has announced details of €354 million funding allocated in Budget 2020.

A Donegal County Councillor says he is encouraging people to go out and deface English tourism signs in the Gaeltacht region.

In an unprecedented development, it has been widely accepted the Premier League has returned at roughly the correct time.

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.

Almost a third of the more than 90 townlands in the South Kerry Gaeltacht are now uninhabited, with poor access to services one of the main reasons people are leaving the area.

The Superior Courts recognise that recent challenges to the interpretation of drink driving legislation contain many arguments that have the appearance of being "cynical", according to a senior judge.

The show rolls down the Dingle peninsula to the very tip of the country this weekend, with Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta taking place in the west Kerry Gaeltacht.

So there you have it. ‘Game-a-Thrones’ is over. If you don’t want to read spoilers, look away now. However, if you like spoilers so much you spent all your credit union loan (that you got to start a digital marketing business) attaching one to a Cinquecento so that it looks like a small, underpowered, metal whale, then this is the place for you.

Almost half of the candidates running in the Kerry local elections are sitting councillors, reports Anne Lucey.

Funding worth €250,000 has been announced for an initiative which will allow third level students to spend three months in the Gaeltacht.

Trish Dromey reports on an affordable Ballymakeera three-bed semi which is within commuting distance of Cork city and Killarney

Experienced Antrim hurler Neil McManus has admitted he fears a disorderly Brexit could spell a return to the days of being stopped at border checkpoints on the way to GAA games.

When the shop in the townland of Bóthar Buí, opposite Carraig Church in west Kerry, closes its doors this evening, there will only be one retail outlet left between Slea Head and the foot of Mount Brandon.

Residents of the Gaeltacht in west Cork were placed at risk of consuming inadequately disinfected water over an extended period last year, a report by an environmental watchdog reveals.

Alys Tomlinson’s pictures of local devotion to St Gobnait in Baile Mhúirne, Co Cork, helped her win the World Photographer of the Year prize, writes Pet O’Connell

Draft plans have been drawn up for a €1m Irish language childcare centre, whose development was scuppered 10 years ago by the economic downturn.

Plans to develop “a landmark building” overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay, in the south Kerry Gaeltacht, have been appealed to An Bord Pleanála.

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Electric Picnic music fans who prefer to rock “as Gaeilge” are to be treated to their own Gaeltacht campsite at this year’s festival.

The creation of digital high-speed broadband hubs in Gaeltacht areas and the islands is part of a strategy to attract back emigrants and help create 1,500 jobs.

One-way systems are being introduced in Kerry for some of the country’s most crowded tourist routes.

Island post-primary schools in the Gaeltacht are to get more funding and teaching hours.

MOVING from Waterford city to the Ring Gaeltacht fifty miles away may not sound like a major life event but for Catherine Foley, her whole world changed at the age of 11.

The Culture Minister says it's a landmark day for the arts sector - with over a billion euro of investment being announced.

Student teachers have to fork out more than €160 a week to cover the costs of classroom placements that are a compulsory part of their training.

This week the GAA issued guidelines for appropriate and safe training for Gaelic games. We asked Michael Moynihan to decode those guidelines to find out if they’re an improvement on the old regime, and whether some carry a deeper message

Reece Smyth, Chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Dublin, sees plenty of cause for optimism on the future of US-Irish relations

“One of the things I love about this job is that it’s not just professional artists that we’re working with, but entire communities.”

I just love that the tradition of celebrating Little Christmas or Nollaig na mBan, as it was known, has once again become super cool. Why wouldn’t it? 

He’s on the sideline now. There was a time not so long ago when Dara Ó Cinnéide was the tip of the spear as An Ghaeltacht collected Kerry senior titles and made it to the big show on St Patrick’s Day, but now the prolific forward is part of the club’s management team.

More than 1.75m people can speak Irish — but fewer than 74,000 do so every day outside of the education system.

Parents who apply for places at numerous second-level schools for their children are making admissions and planning almost impossible for schools, a principals’ leader has warned.

A Gaeltacht town is about to open its 30th pub and continues to buck the trend in hard-hit rural Ireland.

A new film about Sean Mannion charts his amazing journey from Connemara teenager to South Boston boxing hero, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Rosaí McCarthy is flushed with the success of a new beekeeping co-operative in Ballyvourney, Cork

The new Wild Work initiative will support farmers to develop and implement projects with better outcomes for both nature and for farmers.

A significant number of council housing applicants, in remote areas such as the Gaeltacht in west Kerry, have been on a waiting list for nine years or more.

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Fans of Soccer Saturday will be excited to know that two of its biggest stars have landed in Ireland.