YEARS ago, a new app hit the scene that changed many Irish people’s lives. Since the foundation of Google Maps, it has helped ...

This text, written about year 675, is famous for its depiction of Kildare as the hotspot in seventh century Ireland. On the feast of St Brigid countless crowds were drawn to Kildare ...

Tom Jordan starts and centre as one of three changes for Scotland for Sunday's visit of Ireland to Murrayfied ... comes in for only his seventh start since representing the British and Irish ...

Ireland's most reviewed destinations on Google Maps all boast four stars or more - how many have you visited? Ireland's ...

Hezingen is of particular interest in this respect because it was abandoned in the late 7th or early 8th centuries before widespread Christianization in the region. This suggests that perhaps the ...

Gardaí investigating the murder of William Moorhouse have arrested a seventh person as part of the investigation. A man in his 30s was arrested by gardaí, and is being held at a Garda Station in ...

Archaeologists in the Netherlands uncovered a rare 7th-century open-air cult site near the hamlet of Hezingen. The discovery was prompted by recent finds from metal detecting efforts, which led to ...

Captain Andy Balbirnie and Lorcan Tucker both scored half-centuries as Ireland set Zimbabwe a testing victory target of 292 before taking three wickets on the third day of the one-off Test in ...

Although the Chinese pilgrim Faxan (circa 400 CE) was silent about copying books, his more illustrious follower Xuanzang (7th century) had a number of scribes at his disposal. The type of Kashmiri ...

The first tomb built at this royal burial site belongs to Taharqa, the great Nubian pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty who reigned during the seventh century B.C. The Nubians left over 200 pyramids ...