In his article ‘The choices we make trigger rural decline’ (Western People, February 14), Mark Godfrey responded to my end-of-year column documenting the calamitous loss of western rural communities.

There's something unmistakably nauseating about watching the well-fed, centrally heated citizens of the western world wring their sanitised hands over what they insist on calling "the refugee crisis". Crisis. . .

We are in a housing crisis in Ireland. It is more prevalent in the east coast than in the west yet there are plenty of pinch points here too where demand outstrips supply.

What a difference a new leader can make. No, not that one – I think we have all probably heard plenty for now about the difference he’s making to the world we thought we lived in. Step forward instead Sir Keir Starmer.

“It is unconscionable that we would be the generation who preside over the permanent demise of rural Ireland. . .

Anthony Joseph Gavaghan, known in the US as Anthony J. Gavigan, was born in the Ox Mountain townland of Claddagh, near Aclare, in January 1861.

A peculiar malaise creeps across Ireland's digital landscape, manifesting in hunched shoulders and downcast eyes in the blue glow illuminating faces from Louth to Louisburgh.

History was my favourite subject in school. As a child, if you left a history book on the ground anywhere near me, it wouldn’t be there long. When people tell me they find history boring I can’t get my head around it.

“Larry, we have to close the beaches," Police Chief Martin Brody (played by Roy Scheider) along with marine biologist and shark expert Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) is desperately trying to convince stubborn Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) of ...

Last year, a total of 174 people lost their lives on Irish roads, according to statistics published by the Road Safety Authority (RSA). The deaths were the result of 160 fatal collisions across the country.