Search Results for 'Germany'

Maigh Cuilinn will switch focus from league action to knockout stakes this weekend as they travel to Jordanstown to face Ulster University in the opening round of the National Cup on Saturday at 5.30pm.

The Kia PV5 Cargo has officially broke a Guinness World Record title for achieving "the greatest distance travelled by a light-duty battery-powered electric van with maximum payload on a single charge is 693.38km".

“There are ideas sitting in sheds and notebooks all over the West of Ireland,” says Kathryn Reynolds of Ardán. “We exist to make sure those stories find their way to the screen.”

St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, is a specialised university focusing on theology and philosophy at undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional programme levels.

In the hub of Galway’s creative quarter, within the CREW Enterprise and Innovation Hub, Ardán is quietly transforming the landscape of the Irish audio-visual industry. Its name — the Irish for stage or platform — perfectly captures its purpose: to lift up creative voices and give them a place to be heard.

On this day, October 23, 1928, Coláiste Éinde (St Enda’s College) opened in an old house belonging to the Blake family in Furbo. It had been founded by the State shortly after the State itself was founded. The aim of the college was to teach boys through the medium of Irish so that they could go on to third level at St Patrick’s Training College, get a secure job as an Irish language teacher and then, in turn, educate a new generation of boys as Gaeilge. The college did not last very long in Furbo as there was some kind of domestic dispute between members of the Blake family and the school had to be evacuated by Christmas 1930, so they moved it to Dublin, to Talbot House on Talbot Street.

The Tuam and Athenry–Oranmore Municipal Districts met this week to consider their draft General Municipal Allocations (GMAs) for 2026, with councillors in both areas voicing queries about rising costs, limited local discretion and the impact of national funding decisions.

Shannon Airport has recorded a significant surge in passenger traffic this summer, welcoming more than 755,000 passengers across June, July, and August, a 16 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2024.

Mercedes-Benz has revealed an all-electric version of one of its best-selling models, the GLC.

Alongside the annual Medieval Armoured Combat event (the ‘Claregalway Castle Shield’), a unique public event (Combat in Late Medieval Ireland and Beyond: Objects – Texts – Practices) will take place on 27 September at 8pm in the top floor of the stunningly renovated medieval towerhouse at Claregalway Castle.