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Corkman Finbarr Buttimer set out on a walk from Cork city to Dingle last week - as his journey comes to a close midweek, he's ...
Ian Bailey, self-confessed chief suspect in the unsolved Sophie Toscan Du Plantier murder case, spent most of his later years ...
The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr explained his love of Cork and Rory Gallagher on a special Overlap episode alongside Roy ...
Across County Cork’s wide and quiet expanse of gently rolling hills and craggy coastline, a culinary renaissance is unfolding, led by dairy farmers, foragers, fish smokers, and chefs.
Michelin-starred restaurants and award-winning chefs focus on food with fresh, locally grown ingredients in County Cork, a storied region in southwestern Ireland.
In Bay Ridge’s Irish American community, the answer is … plenty. To mark the 30th annual Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 23, Frank Petric, a deputy grand marshal in this year’s march, ...
Take a walk around St. Patrick’s Cemetery, gaze at the headstones and you will find familiar Irish surnames — Sullivan, Murphy, Harrington, Mahoney, Daly, Lynch, Shea, Doherty, and dozens more ...
Murphy, Kelly, Byrne, O'Brien, and Walsh were the most common surnames for babies born in Ireland in 2024, the CSO found. Of the 54,060 live births in Ireland in 2024, 20,812 had unique surnames.
He was co-opted onto Cork County Council in 2003 in place of his father Donal, who himself served five terms as a Cork North-West TD, and won election to the local authority in 2004, 2009 and 2014.
As part of a Magdalene Songs project, a co-commission by West Cork Chamber Music Festival and the Boyne Music Festival, Deirdre McKay has set a litany of the names from the headstones of more than ...
Holiday park operator Pontins has apologised after it was served a legal notice for 'shocking overt race discrimination' towards Irish Travellers - which included creating a list of common Irish ...
Wicklow teacher Seán Ó Súilleabháin will journey back in time to trace the history of his surname and find out about others who share it in a TG4 series about Irish surnames airing this Sunday ...