Coming hot on the heels of last week’s staging of a modern classic sailing trophy at Kinsale, another 40-year old design is experiencing renewal and re-growth in Ireland after a successful national championship in Sligo.

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

Six popular bathing spots have failed to meet minimum EU standards, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual report which is released today.

The Prince of Wales stressed the possibilities inherent in breaking down barriers on a Northern Ireland visit that took in a cross border hospital and a centre dedicated to one of his favourite poets.

WOW!

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will visit Donegal tomorrow as part of a three-day visit to Ireland.

It’s the coastal route where a marketer’s dream meets the reality of world-class scenery. Tony Clayton-Lea sings the virtues of the Wild Atlantic Way.

The Wild Atlantic Way is making waves in more ways than one.

BECAUSE of the cyclical nature of power in a democracy, the past is a far more active player in our present than we might always imagine or accept.

After all the meticulously prepared speeches and polite exchanges, it was casual talk of shrimping boats and tides that held Prince Charles rapt.

One could not stop one’s foot tapping.

FOLLOWING the visible firmness of the handshake between Britain’s Prince Charles and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, the visit of the Prince and his wife Camilla to Ireland has been transformed into an occasion of peace and reconciliation.

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla have arrived in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, where his great-uncle was killed in a bombing.

The Prince of Wales has been presented with a piece of fossil coral from Mullaghmore ahead of his visit to the scene of Lord Mountbatten’s murder.

The Prince of Wales has expressed regret over lives lost in the Troubles, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said.

JUST over 30 years ago, John Hume, Nobel Peace laureate and one of the architects of modern Ireland, realised a new, radical approach was needed to break the cycle of violence in the North.

The Prince of Wales has expressed regret over lives lost in the Troubles in the North, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said.

Gerry Adams has said he raised the cases of the families affected by the Bloody Sunday killings and the Dublin and Monaghan bombings with Prince Charles in a private meeting today.

The Prince of Wales has landed in Ireland for a four-day visit and a historic meeting with Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams.

The Washington Post made quite a blunder today.

Britain’s Prince of Wales begins an emotional trip to the west of Ireland today where his great-uncle Louis Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA.

A rescuer who pulled bodies from the water following Lord Mountbatten’s assassination has said the murder site should be known for the joy it brought the royals, not just the horror.

IT seems pointless, and probably wrong too, to try to establish a hierarchy of atrocity inflicted on this small island during the three decades of terror that preceded the Good Friday peace agreement.

Molly Sterling represents Ireland in the Eurovision semi-final on Thursday.

Ireland is prepared for any security threat to the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall during their visit to the country next week, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has vowed.

The Prince of Wales will make an emotional trip to Mullaghmore in the west of Ireland where his great uncle Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA, officials have confirmed.

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are to visit the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in May, Clarence House has announced.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams hopes that the visit of Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla to Ireland next month will "promote reconciliation".

When storms hit most people head indoors and hope the slates stay on the roof — but not Ireland’s small team of big wave surfers.

Parts of Ireland are being ravaged by stormy weather with forecasters warning of severe coastal flooding and gales of up 120kph.

A prestigious surf magazine has shortlisted six epic wipeouts for its annual poll - and there's an Irish guy on the list.

A Burren expert has said he does not see the landscape being put forward by the Government to be included on Unesco’s World Heritage Site List “any time soon”.

A headland on the west coast of Ireland has been named by a travel bible as one of the best surfing spots in the world.

The State has withdrawn its contentious plans for new visitor facilities at Mullaghmore in the Burren National Park in the face of opposition from An Taisce and the Burren Action Group.

Sixteen of the country’s best-known bathing spots have lost their coveted blue flag status this year after the introduction of more stringent standards for testing water quality by the EU.

CONFRONTED by a 20-foot wave, I’d do the honourable thing.

It's lashing out, which means most people are having a miserable time. Most people.

The owner of Fr Ted Crilly’s parochial house has hit out at fresh Government plans to construct visitor facilities at Mullaghmore in the Burren.

Mary Leland on two books that look at our past through some magnificent, and some ruined, buildings

Martin McGuinness and Sinn Féin sources have dismissed suggestions that the IRA is preparing to make an unequivocal apology to victims of the troubles, including the North’s security forces.

Martin McGuinness told the Queen that he recognised she suffered loss in the Troubles, when they met this week in Belfast.

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A record-breaking big wave surfer has taken on what is believed to be one of the biggest waves ever surfed.