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They say you make your own luck and if that’s true, then chef Anna Haugh is an especially lucky – and hardworking – chef who has always created opportunities. She went into an industry where women weren’t really expected to succeed or thrive, and did...

COUNCILWORKERS TARGETED WITH PIPE BOMBS

Council staff in the estate management department have had pipe bombs attached to their cars and homes when addressing cases of antisocial behaviour in Dublin. In a presentation to Dublin City Council this week, Mike Clarke of the estate management...

A RATION ONCE AGAIN

FUEL rationing may be needed if the Middle East war continues, Simon Harris has warned. The Tanaiste said the conflict has caused the biggest energy crisis the world has known, adding: “We are keeping all measures under review.” It follows another...

Making plans? Met Eireann issues early Easter weather verdict

There is ‘a lot of uncertainty’ surrounding the weather in the run-up to Easter - but early indications suggest that things aren’t looking good. The country has, unfortunately, remained in the midst of cold Spring weather - and, coupled with the...

O’DONNELL IS KING OF THE HILLS AS DONEGAL TAKE THE CROWN

● Donegal’s Conor O’Donnell scores the first of his side’s three goals in three minutes against Kerry at Croke Park to help Jim McGuinness’s side to a 3-20 to 2-10 victory and the Division 1 crown in a rerun of last year’s All-Ireland final.

Belfasta la vista, baby

PHOTO RECALL: Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger with honorary doctorate from Ulster University; (below) with Sandra Weir, who he met in Belfast in 1966, and snapper Roy Smith

Coalition to offer €14k tax break on homes in gardens

Homeowners are in line to earn €14,000 tax-free by renting out newly-built modular units in their back gardens under new changes being examined by the Government. Legislation being introduced this summer will remove the need for planning permission to...

HE CANN CONQUER

Cannavaro – lifting the World Cup, right – is now ready to plot success for Uzbekistan

McGREGOR SISTER’S BRONZE AGE RAP

‘SUPERVISED MINORS’ USED BY HSE IN UNDERCOVER STINGS

‘SCARLETT HIT 11 TIMES WITH A METAL BAR’

16-YEAR-OLD girl struck Scarlett Faulkner eleven times on herhead with an ironbar, a special weekend court sitting heard last night. The girl allegedly laughed when gardai later showed her a photograph of Ms Faulkner seriously injured following the...

WEIGHT IN GOLD

INSIDE THE COMMERCIAL ECOSYSTEM BUILT AROUND SLIMMING

Picking the players up after a loss so damaging is a massive task for the Irish manager

IN the final excruciating act of Thursday’s chaos rodeo, Troy Parrott and friends were thrown headlong from the bucking horse of possibility, and into an emptiness as vast and gaping as any in the universe. To be the custodian of an Irish heart in...

Lincoln hope’s set to come good for Ralph BYJASON HEAVEY

VALVANO (3.32) can finally start fulfilling bis huge potential in today’s William Hill Lincoln. The Doncaster cavalry charge welcomes in the turf Flat season and the race is as tricky to solve as ever. Valvano’s bare stats are underwhelming but Ralph...

Paul rudd

Actor Paul Rudd was named as one of this year’s recipients of DIFF’S most prestigious honour, the Volta Award. The award, named after Ireland’s first dedicated cinema and founded in 1909 by James Joyce, recognises individuals who have made an...

GOTTA BE BIG

Volume-boosting tips from the hair maestro

PART NINE OF OUR SERIES ON GREAT IRISH LEADERS

‘Urgent action’ is needed to restore community policing

THERE have been calls for urgent action to restore visible community policing and rebuild trust in An Garda Síochána, warning that communities across Sligo are being left behind as Garda numbers fall and resources fail to keep pace with demand. Labour...

Central Bank issues revised 2.9pc inflation forecast after oil shocks

The Central Bank (CBI) has revised up its forecast for inflation this year to 2.9pc, due to the higher oil and gas prices that are being driven by the ongoing war in the Middle East. A more severe energy shock scenario could see inflation going over...

Oh Danny Boys!

The Three Dannys: Little Danny Duane (4), his father Dan Duane and jockey Danny Mullins at Cork Racecourse Mallow, launching Down Syndrome Centre Cork Day – a huge fundraiser with the racecourse donating ticket sales to the charity on Saturday, April...

BOYS IN GREEN!

Republic of Ireland supporters Kevin Finn, Mitchelstown; Shane Mullins, Glanmire; Jack O’Mahony, Passage West and Adam Boland, Mitchelstown, pictured in Prague on Wednesday ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 play-off semi-final against Czechia this...

Developer must seek planning for IPAS centre

An appeal to have a former convent in Enniscorthy turned into an IPAS centre has hit a road block following a decision by An Coimisiún Pleanála . The submission, lodged by Ian Skeffington on behalf of his company Flodale Group Ltd back in January...

Time for a cuppa!

● Breda O’Hara, Ann Haverty, Catriona Dixon, Una Corrigan, Shelly O’Hara and Marie Whitwood at the Drink Tea for MND in the Loch Garman Arms.

Tá ‘70 bunscoil i mbaol’ ó bhánú na tuaithe agus na Gaeltachta

Beidh níos mó ná 70 bunscoil faoin tuath i mbaol a ndúnta má leanann bánú na tuaithe ar aghaidh, dar leis an cheardchumann múinteoirí is mó sa tír, Cumann Múinteoirí Éireann (INTO). Is é sin a thuarann John Boyle, ArdRúnaí Chumann Múinteoirí Éireann,...

Family live in car park for weeks

The “extremely distressing” story of a young family who lived in a Louth car park for a over a month after they “fell between the cracks” of two local authorities emerged this week. The family, originally from Latvia, had been sleeping in their car in...

‘He began to control her...said she tried to kill herself ’

Callum Walsh will never forget the day gardaí arrived at the family home in Roundwood, Co Wicklow, in August 2024 to tell him his sister was dead. “That kind of moment, it doesn’t leave you,” the 20-year-old said. Mother-of-two Daena Walsh (27) had...

‘Unfolding crisis’ in Rosslare as coastal erosion threatens to claim Kelly’s Resort Hotel

Every summer tourists from across the world come to Ireland for one reason and one reason only: to visit Kelly’s Hotel in Rosslare Strand. And every summer, without fail, the beach which provides the backdrop to the hotel grows ever smaller, recedes...

Waiting to be evicted from their retirement homes

Elderly, vulnerable residents of a retirement housing scheme have been left fearing for the future after being told they must quit their rental home by June 6th. The residents, many with long term medical issues, have been left reeling from the...

FORD FOCUS

Danny Power (2) from Aherla, Co Cork, at the charity tractor, car and motorbike run that was held in Crookstown to raise funds for a defibrillator for the village.

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THE FRIDAY NIGHT CÉILÍ Memories of Mitchelstown Comhaltas - 1960s to 1980s

In recent times we were reminiscing about our childhood memories, as we were both born in 1962 within a six-week timeframe and lived across the road from one another in King Street. Among the liveliest recollections from the late 1960s through the...

Christmas in my home

Interview with Michelle Walsh Jackson

Publisher’s Note

We are also delighted to feature Mark O’Brien from the Abbey Theatre, as well as Michelle Maguire, Ireland’s Blue Book and the Novel Traveller: Michelle Walsh Jackson. Dublin is a city with a rich history, a lively culture and a thriving community....

Publisher’s Statement

Welcome to the Summer edition of Go Wild Staycation Ireland, our bi-annual celebration of the incredible staycation experiences that await across the island of Ireland. This issue marks an exciting and important milestone for us. For the very first...