THE ONE Hundred Million Trees Project enters the new year with a flourishing start, as 2,500 native tree saplings were planted by the Benedictine monks at Glens.
A grandmother’s letters, passed down through two generations, offer a fascinating, and at times intimate, glimpse into the period following the 1916 Rising. Dermot McEvoy talks to Rosemary Mahoney “My maternal grandmother, Julia Frances Rohan (née Fraher), and her five sisters who emigrated to Boston from Ballylanders, County Limerick, were fervid Sinn Féiners. My grandmother
A project set up by the grandsons of famous Wexford women Min Ryan has moved a small step closer to completion thanks to the communities of The Rocks and Rosslare Harbour. The 100 Million Trees Project was established by Richard and David Mulcahy last year and aims to, as the title suggests, plant 100 million trees in Ireland over the next decade.
Early March 2023 marked one of the most significant anniversaries in the history of County Kerry. A series of commemorative events marking 100 years since the massacre at Ballyseedy in 1923, and similar atrocities at Knocknagoshel, Countess Bridge near Killarney and Bahaghs near Cahersiveen.