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Ireland welcomes a wave of international visitors for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend festivities
Hundreds of thousands of international tourists are expected to travel to the country over the bank holiday weekend for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. By Alex Cloud Fáilte Ireland estimates that over 589,000 people attended the three-day St. Patrick’s Day festival last year, which generated €138 million in visitor revenue. While the figures for the current year are undetermined, Dublin Live reported that over half a million people were in…
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To mark 40 years of fighting for press freedom and the right to information, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) took over the Gaîté Lyrique music centre in Paris on 15 November to host its Informing Tomorrow’s World festival, with a programme that included conferences, a photo exhibition, a concert and the 2025 RSF Press Freedom Awards ceremony. Twenty-nine journalists, photojournalists and media outlets from around…
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Barry Heneghan is a 27-year-old independent TD for Dublin Bay North, elected in the 2024 Irish general election on his first attempt. A graduate from both Belvedere college and DCU, Heneghan graduated with a master’s in mechanical engineering focusing on sustainable energy systems. In an interview with The City, Heneghan discussed his political journey, his aspirations for the rest of his current…
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In recent years, Ireland has made huge progress in equality and representation for queer communities, with our country even being the first in the world to legalise gay marriage by popular vote in 2015. Yet, for many young people, questions around identity, belonging, and visibility are still deeply relevant. On university campuses, societies play a…
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On the 19th of November 2025, a protest took place outside the Dáil calling for the Occupied Territories Bill to be implemented. The Bill is a proposed law which would ban trade with countries who are illegally occupying territory, most notably Israel’s current occupation of Palestine. This would lead to Ireland no longer engaging in the trading of goods with the Occupied Palestinian…
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Photo Credit: Bing Search By Kelsey Doogan The news that former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for faking a cancer diagnosis broke on Monday November 3 and has left many people in shock and wondering what it may mean for future fundraising appeals from genuine patients who desperately need people’s help. Carey was once…
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A restaurant known worldwide is opening in Dublin this month. Gloria Osteria already has restaurants in Barcelona and Milan. The chain is owned by the Big Mamma Group. The restaurant had been rumoured to open in Dublin since the start of this year, and the news was confirmed on July 6 when they made an…
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