Ireland municipalities (cities, towns and villages)

This new three-day festival has Andrew Weatherall, Young Fathers and Martin Hayes & Steve Cooney as headliners, with Irish acts Talos, Saint Sister, ... It Takes a Village is placing the nostalgic elements of childhood holidays alongside the best parts – the craic, the silliness and the great music – of an ...

Born in Ireland in 1825, McGee immigrated to Canada in 1857 where he founded a newspaper and graduated with a law degree out of Montreal's McGill University. First elected to the Canada's Provincial Assembly in 1858, he began his fight for a united and independent Canadian nation. Recognized as a ...

Belfast City Council also publish its audited accounts annually, including remuneration levels of all senior staff. The joint second highest-earning council staff in Northern Ireland were Roger Wilson and Liam Hannaway - the respective chief executives of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, and Newry, ...

One important example he mentions is the regeneration of towns and villages throughout Ireland. Browne feels that ... Next month, the RIAI will launch its 'Town and Village Toolkit', which has been developed jointly with government. ... As regards cities, Browne is a supporter of achieving greater densities.

Traders in Cork City have threatened to withhold their commercial rates unless city bosses scrap the St Patrick's St car ban. The possible rates revolt emerged as business owners on the city's main street claimed afternoon trade has been decimated and jobs are now at risk since the city council introduced a ...

Brexit is maddening and saddening, according to the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk. He told an audience in Dublin on Tuesday that Britain's departure from the EU made him “furious”, but might also be “one of the saddest moments in 21st-century European history”. Tusk chose the right ...

The council passed [BelfastLive report] the motion with a 34-15 vote and five abstentions. Councillor Kate Nicholl proposed [meeting webcast] the motion, and Councillor Mary Ellen Campbell joined, in response to growing numbers of women avoiding professional medical care for abortions. Under Section ...

The email into my inbox sounded enticing, a press release saying science revealed Ireland's best locations. As you could imagine, the revelation is far greater than a list of nice towns. The report from SAS used machine learning to analyse five million data points for 148,000 cities worldwide to determine the ...

The index concentrates on the actual sale price of Ireland's average home, a three-bed semi, giving an up-to-date picture of the property market in towns and cities nationwide to the close of last week. The rate of increase in three-bed semi-detached home prices in Dublin has slowed to 2 per cent over the ...

However, he claimed that none of the staff at the accommodation availed of by him and his wife could speak even basic Irish. He said he was met with similar issues upon visiting businesses in the Gaeltacht town and that "nobody we met seemed embarrassed or apologetic, despite the town being ...

THOUSANDS have attended rallies across Ireland in apparent defiance of legal threats by lawyers for Ulster and Ireland rugby star Paddy Jackson. Many demonstrators in Belfast, Dublin, Galway and Cork appeared to openly taunt KRW Law which, acting for 26 year-old Mr Jackson, warned it will "not ...

Multinationals can't be only game in town ... Irish economic, tax and social policy is driven in a significant way by a model that places huge reliance on Ireland's attractiveness as a low-tax economy ... Add to this an additional 100 jobs at the Apple customer service office in Lavitt's Quay in the city centre.

"It will also be important to the council's ambitions to making the city the gateway to the Causeway Coastal Route and the Wild Atlantic Way, and we are delighted that Belmond are considering extending their operation to the north west to help maximise the tourism potential along one of the most scenic rail ...

The jury of eight men and three women had deliberated for three hours and 45 minutes. The outcome has sparked rallies in cities across the island of Ireland, including Belfast, Dublin, Galway and Cork. In Dublin more than 4,000 protesters – men, women and children – gathered outside City Hall yesterday.

An urgent appeal has been launched after a child went missing from the Oldpark area of North Belfast , reports Belfast Live. The little girl's name is Aoife Rafferty and she's seven-years-old. Read More. Second man arrested in connection with death of ten-year-old Irish boy Carter Carson. Residents in the ...

Prices in Dublin rose by 6.6% in the year to March 2018, compared to 8.5% in the other major cities and 8.1% outside the cities. In Dublin, the average ... Prices rose in all 11 counties of Leinster, as well as across Connacht and Ulster, but remained stable in Galway City and Monaghan. Nationally, the ...

Dublin city's overground electric train is one of the easiest and loveliest ways of exploring the coastline of Ireland's capital city. Follow the route from Malahide into the city. We start our scenic DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) trip in Malahide, a town with a very definite sense of its own identity. A short ...

Mick McCarthy, the longest-serving Irish manager in English football, will leave Ipswich Town at the end of this season, it was confirmed yesterday. The former Ireland manager reached an agreement with owner Marcus Evans after a mediocre season at Portman Road. McCarthy has been in charge of the ...

Tragic Maureen Dooley and Deirdre Kilmartin, both aged in their mid 50s, died when they were struck by a car which had collided with a second vehicle in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, on Thursday evening. It is understood secondary school teacher Maureen and Deirdre, who worked in a veterinary surgery, ...

The idea of carting people wearing horned helmets around the city in an amphibious vehicle is a distorted version of reality. Not that any of this bothers ... A gorgeous new book, Dublin and the Viking World, introduces readers to the period when Dublin became Ireland's first fully functioning town. Written by Prof Clarke, ...

On the day I visited the city center in early March, there was an investigation underway at the court house. A former British soldier was being questioned (behind a curtain to protect his identity) about the shooting death of a 47-year-old Irish mother of six. The incident took place in 1971, during a British army ...

In 1961, around 20,000 Irish-born people were living in Coventry, according to the UK census, contributing to the economy, culture and character of the city. It was a dramatic increase on previous decades. But when President Michael D Higgins visited the city in 2014, there was little official record of the ...

This week Dublin was ranked the top city in Ireland and the UK to live in, focusing attention on what makes a make a great city. All over the world, cities are driving economic growth. Ireland is no exception. Dublin is more dominant now than ever before. Money and people are attracted to the capital for cultural, social and ...

Dublin has been deemed the best city for quality of life in the UK and Ireland, but could the housing crisis derail everything? The 2018 edition of the Mercer Quality of Living City Ranking has revealed that Dublin, for the second consecutive year, is the best city to live in the UK and Ireland, coming in at 34th ...

Rob can still remember the burning sensation that coursed through his legs as the gunman fired four bullets into his limbs. “It might have been eight years ago but I still can remember every second of it,” says Rob (not his real name), as he stands near Derry's 17th-century walls and the museum dedicated to ...

On a sunny Friday afternoon in April, the sleepy city of Kilkenny, Ireland, began to wake up. Chattering ... And shoppers ducked into the small stores that share a main street with a 17th-century merchant's house and an 18th-century town hall building that was served as a customhouse. This bustle was ...

What is particularly frustrating is that Dublin - and indeed all Irish towns and cities - lack the basic information needed to manage their housing stock effectively. Across Europe, municipalities and city councils have complete registers of who owns what and who lives where. Irish cities have neither. There is a ...

A council has been ordered to allocate more land for housing in Leixlip, the Irish base of the technology multinational Intel. Damien English, the housing minister, accused Kildare country council of breaching the Planning and Development Act by ignoring a previous plea he had made to zone additional ...

Northern Ireland priest warned to 'get out of town' amid fallout from deceased cleric abuse scandal ... Fr Charles Byrne told parishioners at Mass in the village of Hilltown yesterday about the threat he had received in the wake of recent revelations about child sex abuse by a priest in the Dromore diocese.

Early voting in the Russian presidential election took place on Sunday at the polling stations in the Irish cities of Galway, Limerick and Cork. "The polling ... He noted that 61 people voted in that city, which is twice as many compared to elections to Russia's State Duma (lower house of parliament) in 2016.

In Northern Ireland as a whole the typical worker was on £1,600 a month, and the average across the UK was almost £1,800. On a whole range of other measurements, from deprivation to house prices to life expectancy, Derry is below the Northern Ireland average. In some cases it has been like that for ...

The General Post Office, on O'Connell St in Dublin's city centre, is a grand reminder of a difficult time. This beautiful building, designed in the Greek Revival style, formed the 1916 Easter Rising headquarters for the uprising's leaders. Volunteers and members of the Citizen Army marched to the post office where they took ...

Long Ireland became such an integral part of the neighborhood that in 2014 it brewed the special Polish Town Pilsner for the Polish Town Fair's 40th anniversary. ... Long Ireland has been distributed across LI and New York City by Clare Rose since 2012 and hopes to expand distribution later this year.

On a trip to Ireland this past fall, my family and I made a point to stop in Dingle, an adorable seaside town with a dolphin mascot and a name that makes ... the city itself is built around its harbor, however, the Dingle Peninsula as a whole incorporates a large section of lush landscape and smaller villages.