The board of directors of Listowel Writers Week is pleased to announce the unanimous election of Tom Donovan to the position of Chair of the Board as well as the appointment of Richard Vance as a new, incoming director, both appointments taking effect from the 13th July 2023. The previous Chair, Catherine Moylan, retired having…
Category: Ireland
Northern Ireland Government back in Business Stormont Reconvenes
On February 3rd 2021 the DUP crushed the hopes of Northern Ireland Government in protest against post Brexit trading arrangements that it said undermined the region’s place in the UK. Michele O’Neill, Sinn Fein’s deputy leader was elected first minister after a May 2022 assembly election when the republican party out polled the DUP as…
A Mayo Tailor
FROM KILKELLY TO SOUTH CAROLINA. By Mattie Lennon. Michael Gerard Kenny was born and raised in Kilkelly Co Mayo. He now owns a successful machinery business in South Carolina. He got there via Galway, Limerick, Cork, and Dublin. He Left Ireland in 1980 to work overseas for a mining machinery company. He worked in…
Cliffs of Moher won a Gold Award at CIE Awards of Excellence
The Cliffs of Moher Experience in County Clare has won a Gold Award and the accolade of ‘Best Visit’ in Ireland at the annual CIE Tours International Awards of Excellence. The awards, which are based on feedback received from customers of CIE Tours International throughout the year, were presented at a ceremony held in the Irish…
2023 Northern Ireland local Elections
Local elections were held in Northern Ireland on 18 May 2023. The elections were delayed by two weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III. Following the elections, Sinn Féin became the largest party in local government for the first time. It also marked the first time that nationalist parties had garnered…
NORTHERN IRELAND CITIZENS DEMAND A GOVERNMENT
The council elections in the North of Ireland demonstrate an undeniable truth: voters overwhelmingly have directed their representatives to get back to work and earn their pay. The Democratic Unionist Party, espousing a one-note message of “Just Say No” to government, received a paltry 23% of the vote. Sinn Fein and other parties campaigned on “bread and butter” issues of delivering…
Ireland’s Central Statistics Office releases the Census Results
Ireland is in a bit of a change according to the Census. The huge data that the OSC released shows an aging and diverse population in Ireland. The most surprising thing is the sharp fall in the numbers professing to be Catholic fell from 79% in 2016 to 69% in 2022. Also for the first…
Waterford Celebrates the 175th Anniversary of the Irish Tricolor
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the Irish Tricolour is a symbol of ‘a shared future and a shared island’ at an event to mark the 175th anniversary of the flying of the Irish National Flag. The Taoiseach was speaking at a flag-raising ceremony in Waterford as part of a program of events to mark the anniversary….
The Fairy Forts of Ireland
Scattered around the Irish countryside the mysterious fairy forts have the power to curse those who cross them and even affect the weather… how much do we really know about these mystical structures? Throughout Ireland, there are thousands of mysterious looking forts whose reputations strike terror into the hearts of many. These forts have the…
Anglo-Irish Treaty
Featured image courtesy of https://www.cesc.ie/ December 6, 2021 marked 100 Years Since Anglo-Irish Treaty Signed The signing of the treaty ended the War of Independence and set the stage for British withdrawal from most of Ireland with the handover of power to an independent Irish Government. The treaty gave Ireland independence, but as a member…