What is it that makes Blas na hÉireann so distinctive and highly regarded? Dee Laffan unravels the story behind the Irish ...

Work continuing on development of deepwater port in addition to enhanced road and rail links, says chief executive ...

Winning successive Blas na hÉireann awards helped to supercharge sales and, as a consumer himself, he understands why. That’s ...

Take Walter Frederick Osbourne (1859-1903) for instance. One of Ireland’s best known and most loved impressionist and ...

Naturally modest and down to earth, she is still coming to grips with her changed circumstances – from working in Tesco’s ...

Alongside the foods for which Ireland has long been known, Blas entries and award winners increasingly reflect a more ...

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House for the National Opera House and the Pavilion Dún Laoghaire and an adaptation of Der Letzte Satz (The ...

Her depiction of the Peck & Peck offices is kaleidoscopic; through Batter’s eyes, we glimpse “thousands upon thousands of ...

Lorna Shaughnessy’s intricately woven sixth collection, Throat Full of Feathers (Salmon, €14), explores the shadowy reaches ...

Despite us being brought up to believe the West is a place of democracy and peace, for many it’s justifiably linked only to ...

Sharon Guard’s second novel, The Silence of October, opens on a dumbstruck Klara unable to answer an ambulance crew’s ...

Supernatural a pervasive preoccupation, as is the relationship between sisters, and the circular nature of time ...