This week, Nevan McKiernan spoke with Mark Grealy, who is dispersing his highly regarded Oranmore Suffolk flock in Athenry Mart on Friday 7 November.

American mink were first recorded in the wild, in Ireland, more than 60 years ago, and have spread countrywide since then. The current population is descended from animals which either escaped, or ...

Australia’s 26 million citizens enjoy high living standards and relatively low poverty. Argentina’s 46 million have seen living standards erode, around two-fifths live in poverty while inflation in ...

Ireland – home to Guinness, river dancing, and leprechauns. But did you know Saint Patrick wasn’t Irish? What about the ...

It is clear that, as well as having a political mind, he had ambitions for his flock that went far beyond their spiritual ...

Fourth in the 1957 Kentucky Derby was a colt whose fame stretched far beyond his losing turn beneath the Twin Spires.

Across Michigan, the remnants of once bustling towns bear witness to a bygone era. Here's a look at 5 "ghost towns" that once ...

We're worried. In the United States, for example, 43% of adults felt more anxious in 2024 than they did the previous year, up from 37% in 2023 and 32% in 2022. To soothe themselves, people curl up ...

In other words, the Government is coming at the obesity epidemic from the wrong end of the stick. Why not start with banning ...

The remarkable story of a young Tipperary nurse, whose rescue of her patients from a burning hospital before it collapsed in ...

Propelled by anti-establishment fervor, Catherine Connolly was elected last week with a landmark popular mandate.

The famine was caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, commonly known as late blight, which destroyed potato crops, the staple food for much of Ireland’s poor. This microorganism is very ...