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Why was Handel’s Messiah first performed in Dublin? Because 243 years before Bob Geldof’s Live Aid, Ireland invented the benefit gig

Worldview: Language competence is now just as much part of Ireland’s competitive infrastructure deficit as poor planning

Crowded prisons are unsafe and ours are grossly overcrowded

Part 1: Managing our mental health in the face of personal and global crisis

Irish Voluntary Healthcare Association says its members are worried about financial sustainability

‘There’s not much that’s going to top this,’ says Andy Moran

Reek Sunday 2026: Mayo climb mountain in Croke Park as thousands of the county’s faithful ascend Croagh Patrick

Minister for Justice to meet Law Society representatives amid bitter row over remuneration reforms

Described as the Olympics of Irish traditional music, artists worldwide are set to attend cultural highlight

It would take roughly 150 years to deliver the long-promised 300km Dublin active travel network

‘Love is a terrible thing to hate’ read handmade sign at improvised memorial for victims of attack on one of Europe’s biggest Pride parades

We have built a capitalist kingdom upon foreign direct investment, yet too often overlooked the people most in need

The Dubliner was jailed this month for murdering US nurse Mackenzie Michalski in Hungary

Cabinet set to consider plans in autumn to put out to tender the proposed 19km Dublin rail link from Swords to Charlemont

‘Even though Tokyo’s very busy with people, it’s very peaceful,’ says David Garvey (24)

Andy Moran’s men finally bring their people to the promised land as they overturn a seven-point head start to beat Kerry

Once the All-Irelands are over, there is too much time to think in one side of the GAA house, and not a minute to…

The first shots of the 1916 Rising were fired at the fort on Easter Monday when it was raided for arms by Na Fianna

Negotiations in Brussels about whether to sanction exports of alumina to Russia likely to gather pace in September

Once eager to flaunt ties to Washington, the Bolsonaro camp is now struggling to contain a backlash fuelled by US tariffs and election controversy