Students from Groix and Inis Oírr visited the RNLI station in the Aran Islands to learn about maritime safety and heritage.

Under the Our Living Islands policy, grants of up to €84,000 are available for those those looking to renovate existing ...

Some 38 students from 17 Meath secondary schools have been awarded Gaeltacht scholarships by Meath County Council funded under the Council’s Irish Language and Creative Ireland Programmes. The ...

For a few days in mid-summer an estimated 4,000 people will descend on the renowned Meath Gaeltacht and surrounding area for a festival of football that will involved some of the most talented and ...

The summer after my first year in secondary school, when I was 13 years old, I attended a three-week course in the Gaeltacht in Connemara with a group of friends from school. Despite having been ...

The real and growing crisis in Gaeltacht communities in Cork and nationwide was highlighted recently in Seanad Éireann by Senator Nicole Ryan. The Cork senator expressed her fears over a number ...

Last year, the Government announced the approval of €900,000 in funding for free Gaeltacht places for students in DEIS post-primary schools. Over 800 scholarships will be offered to students ...

The Dooagh Fife and Drum band was established on Achill Island in 1882 and an invite from the local priest saw the band first march before early Mass that year to celebrate Patrick. They were ...

Fintan’s entire education was through English and Irish wasn’t the main language at home – but he did grow up on the edge of a Gaeltacht area and conversing with elderly neighbours over the stone wall ...

Farmers are taking part in a community-led project which is reversing the decline in wader populations in The Valley on Achill, Co. Mayo, a critical site for breeding waders since 1985. “Historical ...

Heineken has launched a worldwide recruitment campaign to find a successor for Josie McLoughlin, owner of McLoughlin’s Bar, on Achill Island, Co. Mayo. This initiative marks the Irish launch of ‘For ...

McLoughlin’s Bar, a fourth-generation family pub established in 1870 on Achill Island, faces an uncertain future as Josie McLoughlin, with no direct family to inherit the business, seeks a new ...