OK reader, we’re going to ask you to join us on a journey and imagine. Imagine you had wings. Imagine feeling a friendly gust of wind wrap round you and carry you high into the fresh air. Imagine dipping, diving and swooping over the crumpled green quilt of County Meath countryside. Then you spy something… [...]

You probably know our hopping, hair-flying traditional Irish dancing from the ‘Riverdance’ show thundering through your town or at least your TV set. It’s a peculiar but much-loved style that has evolved over centuries and has enough customs and conventions to make your curly head spin! So we thought we’d save you the chin-scratching pondering [...]

It’s no secret that we here in Ireland have creative souls. For poetry we look to Heaney and Yeats. For writing we look to Behan and Joyce. For theatre we look to Beckett and Wilde. For style we look to…Cork Yes, the compact city that’s home to the tasty English Market and the cool Guinness [...]

We’re not sure about you, reader, but we have noticed a bit of a nip in the air recently. That’s not to say that a bit of chilly weather is anything to sneeze at! You see, when the days get shorter and chairs are pulled by the fire we have all the reason we need [...]

Meet Declan Mills. He’s a Ghost Guide on the Ghostbus, a revamped double-decker that’s been haunting the streets of Dublin for over 10 years. He’s agreed to talk to us just before the spookiest event on Ireland’s calendar: Halloween. The cynic in me has to immediately ask him, does anyone ever actually see anything on [...]

“Rain is…very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it’s quite fine, so fine that the Irish don’t even acknowledge that it exists.” – Alan Parker, director of “The Commitments” Poor old Ireland, continually painted as the rainy isle where you’ll get drenched running from car to door. Always keen to bust a myth or [...]

As much as we love a good knees-up in Ireland, we enjoy our downtime just as much (maybe even more). Take weddings for example – we’ll be the last to leave the dancefloor but we’ll know just how to wind things down afterwards. So with such a knack for relaxing, maybe Ireland would be a [...]

Davey has worked in Irish bars since he was 15. Here, he explains why the Irish make the best bartenders, why it’s probably the best job in the world, and what the pub really looks like from the other side of the taps. ‘Oh hi, um, are you guys open yet?’ came the soft Southern [...]

Picture it: Thirty men, each built like a Spartan warrior, puffed up with adrenalin and national pride, stalking their side of the pitch and eyeing each other cautiously over a painted white line in the grass. This is a modern pitched battle where the fifteen men clothed in deep green lock horns with their challengers for 80 tense and torrid [...]