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A Georgetown official has plans for the state’s third-oldest city to become a Christmas destination.

The Leaving Certificate, also known as Gaeilge as the Árd Teist, was first established in this country in 1924 and the first papers were marked in 1925. It is the final examination in the secondary school system and also serves as the university matriculation exam. There was a time when these two were separate exams. It is for the senior school cycle, most of the participants are 16 to 19 years old, although an increasing number of mature student now sit the tests.

Westmeath 1-17 Clare 0-15 This senior league hurling contest was played with great passion and physicality with plenty of strikes of timber on timb...

A man has been convicted of careless driving after overtaking a number of cars including that of an off-duty garda outside Newtownforbes earlier this year. Alan...

Shadows of previous Dublin dramas hang over Cathal Nally’s feature debut

Enya Martin ( th. Cathal Nally, ‘ Be Good or Be Gone‘ is set over the course of four days in contemporary Dublin, Ireland. The story follows Ste and Weed, two petty criminal cousins, who receive a temporary release from prison. Both lads have big plans for the future. Ste wants to make a better life for himself, his long-term partner Dee and six-year-old daughter Ellie Mae. Weed’s ambition is to conquer the world of high fashion, thus becoming the new Galliano but a nasty substance addict...

Updated / Friday, 26 Feb 2021 11:44 Cathal Nally: "Thankfully I dont suffer from depression . .but I know those that do, so I call or text them from time to time." "Ive been very lucky with the lockdowns", says film director Cathal Nally, whose film Be Good or Be Gone screens at this years Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. "Ive spent each one in a different place both physically and mentally." Lockdown One’ (the first is always the best) I spent in Ashbourne with my brother. T...

World-weary stand-up comedian Kate McLoughlin wants out. Her morbid prayers are answered in the form of a cancer diagnosis. For Kate, this is the perfect excuse. However, a last supper of dodgy shellfish and champagne puts paid to her overdose attempt and to placate her family she begrudgingly agrees to undergo treatment. Armed with staggering levels of cynicism and a plethora of blackly comic jokes, Kate gets off to a bad start with the four other women she encounters on the chemo ward, whose ...