The 1998 Tour had left the Grand Départ in Ireland to cross to Brittany, bathed in an atmosphere of celebration after France's win in the 1998 World Cup final in the Stade de France. There was a story ...

The Population of Ireland from Ancient Times until the Great Famine Last year I attended a tour of the National Museum in Kildare St, Dublin. The tour guide stated that Ireland was 'underpopulated' in ...

COVID-19, Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories (UPDATED) Updates to Forum Rules, posts #1, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Posts in the Russian-Ukrainian War, the Roe vs Wade, and the Monkey Pox threads should follow ...

Amazon has cancelled a planned industrial plant due to a lack of power supply, according to Newstalk. I think they said industrial plant on Newstalk. I think it was to make servers for data centres.

During the week, Peter Schmeichel, the former Manchester United goalkeeper, gave a Press Conference in the UK to sell his new book. Asked about Brexit, he made it clear he thought it was madness.

It is surprising the Department of Housing confused the rent increase issue for investors the government hopes to attract by saying rents would be allowed to increase with the consumer price index ...

I'm surprised that they want to site that sort of a factory here. Server racks are just Ironmongery so I'd have thought that low skilled work like that would be done where labour is cheapest. The fact ...

Just back from doing the shopping in Lidl. While I was there, I noticed some incredibly juicy-looking pomegranates. I thought they looked a bit out of season - in fact they looked unnaturally juicy, ...

Turner not for the first time has a cartoon that is firstly historically inaccurate and secondly insulting to Christians. As an agnostic I think the IT showed poor judgement in allowing this to be ...

An interview on Newstalk earlier today exposed the lack of transparency on when water facilities would be made available from the monopoly Irish Water for a housing project. News reports suggest such ...

COVID-19, Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories (UPDATED) Updates to Forum Rules, posts #1, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Posts in the Russian-Ukrainian War, the Roe vs Wade, and the Monkey Pox threads should follow ...

Bóthar na Saoirse (The Road to Freedom) is a new trilogy of documentaries on TG4 on the lives of Dan Breen, Tom Barry and Ernie O Malley in War of Independence or Tan War. It started last week with a ...