I have watched our town die for the last ten years because no houses are being built,” said Cllr Kay Dawson as she appealed for Uisce Éireann to build a new wastewater treatment plant in Mitchelstown.

Exactly 45 years ago today, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, was assassinated whilst celebrating Mass and ...

In her maiden speech to the House of Commons, she declared her presence to be “the arrival of a peasant in the halls of the ...

There has always been a tendency to romanticize rural living, despite the daily struggle of wresting a living from the soil.

Despite a ban on alcohol and tobacco, the Ralahine experiment was successful until the landlord gambled away the estate on a trip to Dublin ...

Farming subsidies have been halted by the Government in a fresh blow to rural communities. The main replacement to the EU-era subsidies scheme was paused to new applications without warning on ...

At the same time, peasants tried to realize their rural visions of a reborn society, establishing local self-government or attempting to influence the new states that were being built atop the ...

Fans reacted as Kevin Durant and Cam Spencer received technical fouls at the end of the third quarter of Thursday’s game between the Phoenix Suns and Memphis Grizzlies. Spencer hit a 22-footer ...

These derelict properties require a lot of work but they offer huge potential for anyone looking for tranquility and a little bit of land, and they should qualify for refurbishment grants Slate ...

The trade for Angus dairy beef calves in Ireland is roaring, with artificial insemination companies and breeders headed to Australia chasing genetics.

Even before the potato blight, there was a degree of hunger among the Irish rural underclass that seemed like an ugly remnant of a receding past. In 1837, two years after Alexis de Tocqueville ...