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THE Liverpool Irish Festival (LIF) has launched a contest to find a fitting song that will mark the legacy of the Irish Famine in the city. Songwriters are being asked to submit their ideas for a tune which will honour the lives lost or impacted by the period known as the Great Famine or An Gorta Mór. Between 1845-52 mass starvation and disease caused by the potato blight … [Read more...] about Contest launched to find new song commemorating lives lost to Irish Famine

A WRITER whose research into the ‘disappeared’ led to the discovery of one of the bodies has revealed that the practice has been in use in Ireland for some 200 years. Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has spent the past decade researching the fate of the ‘disappeared’, those who were abducted by the IRA, secretly executed and had their bodies buried in remote bogs, lakes and woodlands never … [Read more...] about Author who located body of one of Ireland’s ‘disappeared’ reveals brutal practice has been in use for centuries

IRISH singing sensation Ronan Keating stunned shoppers by giving an impromptu performance at a Tesco Mobile store in Hertfordshire this morning. The Dubliner, who was one fifth of the chart-topping boyband Boyzone, was in the Hemel Hempstead branch of the British supermarket chain where he treated shoppers to an acoustic performance of Life is a Rollercoaster with a comical … [Read more...] about Ronan Keating surprises stunned shoppers with performance at Tesco store

THE animals of Belfast Zoo woke to a winter wonderland as the first snow of 2024 hit Northern Ireland. While many of the resident animals preferred to stay tucked up in their heated houses, some decided to have some fun in the elements. The Barbary Lions, were happy to watch the snow from the warmth of their den Species such as the penguins and red pandas naturally thrive in … [Read more...] about SNOW DAY: Animals enjoy chilly breakfast after waking to a winter wonderland at Belfast Zoo

THE Irish Government has purchased a vast and unique collection of maps and prints of Ireland which will be made publicly available at the University College Cork (UCC) library. The Bonar Law Collection, acquired by the National Library of Ireland (NLI), is deemed the most complete visual record of Ireland, in map and print form, ever assembled by an expert private … [Read more...] about Government buys Bonar Law’s ‘remarkable’ private collection of maps of Ireland