BBC Commissions Feature Length Film on the Life of Seamus Heaney

BBC Commissions Feature Length Film on the Life of Seamus Heaney

The BBC has announced a feature-length film exploring the life of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. Following the Irish writer’s death at 74 in 2013, his wife, children and brothers have shared poems and insights into family life with Heaney...
read more
European Union ‘Will Never Abandon’ Ireland, Says Macron

European Union ‘Will Never Abandon’ Ireland, Says Macron

France and Ireland would be the EU nations most directly affected by a no-deal Brexit, the French president has said. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar traveled to Paris to meet with Emmanuel Macron, where he thanked France for its ongoing solidarity with...
read more
Saracens to Play ‘Big Game’ Fixtures at Tottenham Hotpur Stadium

Saracens to Play ‘Big Game’ Fixtures at Tottenham Hotpur Stadium

Tottenham and Saracens have agreed a five-year partnership that will see the Gallagher Premiership champions stage their annual ‘Big Game’ fixture at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The first match of the arrangement will be held in 2020 and takes the dominant....
read more
Taoiseach Holding Brexit Talks with Macron Today

Taoiseach Holding Brexit Talks with Macron Today

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will hold Brexit talks with French President Emmanuel Macron today. The bilateral meeting in Paris comes ahead of talks between Mr Varadkar and German Chancellor Angel Merkel, who is due to visit Dublin on Thursday. A spokesman...
read more
McDonald Apologizes for St. Patrick’s Day Banner

McDonald Apologizes for St. Patrick’s Day Banner

The leader of Sinn Féin has apologized for marching behind an “England Get Out of Ireland” banner on St Patrick’s Day. Mary Lou McDonald moved to reassure the public that its message was not directed at English people. “For anybody...
read more
Arsenal Leapfrog Spurs with Win Against Newcastle

Arsenal Leapfrog Spurs with Win Against Newcastle

Arsenal moved up to third in the Premier League table and boosted their chances of a return to the Champions League as they beat Newcastle 2-0 on Monday night. Aaron Ramsey, who will leave for Juventus in the summer when...
read more
2019 Sees More Electric Cars Registered Than In All of Last Year

2019 Sees More Electric Cars Registered Than In All of Last Year

More electric vehicles have been registered in the first three months of this year than all of 2018. New figures from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry show 1,437 electric vehicles have been registered so far this year. Meanwhile,...
read more
Last Year’s Winner Tiger Roll Likely to be Favorite in Grand National

Last Year’s Winner Tiger Roll Likely to be Favorite in Grand National

Last year’s winner Tiger Roll features among 69 horses left in Saturday’s Randox Health Grand National at Aintree following the confirmation stage. Gordon Elliott’s popular nine-year-old is on course to attempt to emulate Red Rum in 1974 by c...
read more
Almost a Quarter of Dublin’s Homeless are Non-EU Nationals

Almost a Quarter of Dublin’s Homeless are Non-EU Nationals

A new report into homelessness in Dublin has found that a large number of people living in emergency accommodation are from outside the European Union. The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive says that of the new families presenting as homeless, 21%...
read more
QPR Sack Steve McClaren as Manager

QPR Sack Steve McClaren as Manager

Steve McClaren has been sacked as QPR manager, the club have announced. The former England manager joined the Loftus Road club last summer but has been sacked with the club 17th in the Championship table and only eight points clear...
read more