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Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
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Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson among those who pay tribute to Brian Friel
Hollywood stars have been paying tribute to Irish playwright Brian Friel who has died aged 86.
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Song of the Sea (2014)
Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the faeries and save the spirit world.
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UTV Television channels sold to ITV in £100m deal
ITV is to acquire regional broadcaster UTV and its sister channel UTV Ireland in a takeover deal worth £100m, it has been announced.
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No baptism, no school: Irish parents fight for equal access to education
Number of Catholics has plummeted, but church still dictates admissions criteria for vast majority of schools – with non-believers at bottom of pile
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Three years on: My country still kills women.
Savita Halappanavar died three years ago today. She died of septicaemia. She died from a drawn-out miscarriage that went untreated too long. She died after spending a week in hospital. Savita may have died of blood poisoning, but she was killed by the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution. Two decades of Irish governments have blood on their hands. They were too cowardly to legislate to protect pregnant people’s lives.
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Delicious Guinness food pairings and recipes
The ten best foodie treats that will compliment your tall, frothy, chilled pint of the black stuff.
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Discover Ireland’s most ancient secrets
Exploring Ireland’s ancient east means choosing your own adventure through 5,000 years of history – with no route, itinerary or list of sites.
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Ireland to decriminalise drugs including heroin and cocaine
Ireland will move towards decriminalising substances including heroin, cocaine and cannabis as part of a “radical cultural shift”, the country's drugs minister has said.
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Mother’s sweet white scones recipe
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Dublin cafe 3fe offers 'water tasting menu' for €3.50
A coffee revolution has been in full swing right across Ireland for a few years now. Not only are Irish coffee connoisseurs keenly aware of where they can get their favourite coffee, they’re also curious how it’s brewed and who's brewing it. Now, wait for it, one of Dublin’s coffee hotspots has a “water tasting menu” on offer. For €3.50, water tasters can have four shots of water.
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The Light
Producer Rikke Houd and illustrator Anthony Calvert tell the story of Pat Herbert, founder of the Hurdy Gurdy Museum in Ireland, recalling the time he heard radio for the very first time.
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The last king of Ireland
Royalty is elected and legends live on through this strange, tiny island off the coast of County Donegal.
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A Trip Through Ireland
We were a group of Instagram photographers invited by Samsung Mobile Germany and Tourism Ireland to explore and photograph Ireland with our Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge on a four-day trip. Based on our interests and visual aesthetics, we split up into two groups. One group explored the cities of Belfast and Dublin while the other group went down south, focusing on the beautiful landscapes of the Kerry and Cork region.
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Irish Fairies and Irish Food: The Mary Doheny Trial
“Now what, on earth, is going on in this account? The newspapers that wrote about Doheny described her as a ‘witch,’ but it would be closer to the truth to call her a ‘fairy woman’ or a ‘fairy doctor’: the nineteenth-century media, particularly in Britain, constantly misunderstood Irish fairy superstitions, confusing the same with witchcraft...” By Dr Simon Young.
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Wexford Carol - Jenny Oaks Baker & Alex Sharpe
Laethanta saoire sona /t/ireland !
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Scientists Sequence First Ancient Irish Human Genomes
A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast has sequenced the first genomes from ancient Irish humans, and the information buried within is already answering pivotal questions about the origins of Ireland’s people and their culture.
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Murders in Spain, and a Dublin attack with AK-47s: the deadly 20-year war of Ireland’s drug cartels
Wearing nothing more than a pair of royal blue Superman Y-fronts, Irish boxing contender Jamie Kavanagh was flexing his muscles for the cameras on stage in preparation for the weigh-in when automatic gunfire echoed around the main hall of Dublin’s Regency Hotel. Dozens of people attending Friday’s pre-bout ritual for yesterday’s subsequently aborted WBO fight for the European lightweight title fled for their lives. Young boys were caught...
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VIDEO: Hilarious time-lapse of an Irish junction that has the Internet hooked
Apparently this had being going on for years'.
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Faith, hope and secularity: Ireland on brink of change as church power wanes
Ireland goes to the polls an increasingly liberal country – yet religion’s place in state education is staving off the decline of the Catholic church
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