The 1998 Tour had left the Grand Départ in Ireland to cross to Brittany, bathed in an atmosphere of celebration after France's win in the 1998 World Cup final in the Stade de France. There was a story ...

The Population of Ireland from Ancient Times until the Great Famine Last year I attended a tour of the National Museum in Kildare St, Dublin. The tour guide stated that Ireland was 'underpopulated' in ...

Ayman Odeh is the leader of Hasash which styles itself a joint Jewish-Arab Party (he comes from a Muslim background but went to a Christian school and identifies as a vague Theist rather than either ...

Amazon has cancelled a planned industrial plant due to a lack of power supply, according to Newstalk. I think they said industrial plant on Newstalk. I think it was to make servers for data centres.

I'm surprised that they want to site that sort of a factory here. Server racks are just Ironmongery so I'd have thought that low skilled work like that would be done where labour is cheapest. The fact ...

Just back from doing the shopping in Lidl. While I was there, I noticed some incredibly juicy-looking pomegranates. I thought they looked a bit out of season - in fact they looked unnaturally juicy, ...

Turner not for the first time has a cartoon that is firstly historically inaccurate and secondly insulting to Christians. As an agnostic I think the IT showed poor judgement in allowing this to be ...

An interview on Newstalk earlier today exposed the lack of transparency on when water facilities would be made available from the monopoly Irish Water for a housing project. News reports suggest such ...

Bóthar na Saoirse (The Road to Freedom) is a new trilogy of documentaries on TG4 on the lives of Dan Breen, Tom Barry and Ernie O Malley in War of Independence or Tan War. It started last week with a ...

It is surprising the Department of Housing confused the rent increase issue for investors the government hopes to attract by saying rents would be allowed to increase with the consumer price index ...

COVID-19, Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories (UPDATED) Updates to Forum Rules, posts #1, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Posts in the Russian-Ukrainian War, the Roe vs Wade, and the Monkey Pox threads should follow ...

COVID-19, Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories (UPDATED) Updates to Forum Rules, posts #1, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Posts in the Russian-Ukrainian War, the Roe vs Wade, and the Monkey Pox threads should follow ...