Michael Macdonagh News Today

This was the 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde, Hubert George de Burgh-Canning (1832-1916), a notorious miser and eccentric who treated his tenants with cruelty.

The 'Check Before You Dig' campaign for landowners has been launched today (Monday, December 4) by the National Monuments Service.

Farmers urged to ‘check before you dig’ before carrying out groundworks 2023-12-04

Incidents of vandalism and damage to sites across the country has been increasing.

Support for Coohill and the Omey descendants has been voiced by Marie Coyne

Just over a year ago Valentia was placed on Ireland’s World Heritage Tentative List, the first stage in the long journey towards UNESCO world heritage designation for the Kerry island that helped transform communication across the globe.

The former Debenhams store on O’Connell Street in Limerick is to be turned into an aparthotel

NEWS: Races cancelled due to legal concerns 2022-10-07

OCTOBER 6 -- It’s reform time. On Sunday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob again called on Malaysians to unite as a family, setting aside religious, racial and political differences to undertake reforms as publicly disclosed in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on...

by David Hargreaves and Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe (Whitefox £100, 2,288 pp) We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying,’ wrote Private Pearson of the Leeds Pals, a World War I battalion recruited from the Yorkshire city. He was referring to the horrors of July 1, 1916, the first day on the Somme. ‘For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first,’ recalled Private Slater from another ‘Pals’ battalion, the 2nd Bradford. ‘We strolled along as though wal...