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THE wreck of the ship on which Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton died has been located on the seafloor off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada. A team from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has located the wreck of Quest, the last ship which Shackleton commanded, in the Labrador Sea. The explorer, who was born in February 1874 in Co. Kildare, and moved to London … [Read more...] about Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwrecked Quest found on seafloor

MORE than 3.5million passengers flew in and out of Ireland last month as the summer season got off to a flying start. The figures issued by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) for Ireland’s two busiest airports show a total of 3.5 million passengers flew to and from Cork and Dublin in May. Cork Airport welcomed 282,000 passengers in May, DAA’s figures show, while Dublin Airport … [Read more...] about Ireland welcomes 3.5m passengers in just one month as summer season ‘well and truly underway’

HUNDREDS of survivors of Ireland’s brutal mother and baby homes have been reunited with family members under legislation allowing adoptees to access their birth records. New Information and Tracing services became available in Ireland in October 2022 under the Adoption Authority of Ireland and Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. They followed the implementation of the Birth … [Read more...] about Hundreds of mother and baby home survivors reunited with relatives after accessing birth records

DUBLIN AIRPORT is planning to build an area to accommodate plane spotters at the busy site in the capital. The Dublin Airport Authority has submitted a planning application this week to create a new “dedicated viewing area for the public to watch planes take off and land on the airport’s runways”. The proposed Aircraft Observation Facility will be located on the site of the … [Read more...] about Dublin Airport reveals plans to create ‘safe and comfortable’ area for plane spotters

THE Irish Government has announced a €6m funding injection to increase the number of workspaces available to artists across the country. Revealed by Culture Minister Catherine Martin, the pilot scheme will be run through local authorities, who can apply for funding grants that they will have to match at 40 per cent of the funding total. “As Minister for the Arts, I have been … [Read more...] about €6m funding to increase workspaces available for artists across Ireland