There is plenty of events taking place to mark St Brigid's Day happening around the county - check out the full list!

Researchers say the massive expansion of mining and the processing of metal ores caused airborne lead pollution to soar ...

BBC News reports that a cobbled courtyard surrounded by traces of buildings with tiled and flagged floors were discovered ...

Ireland's cold snap is far from over - with Met Eireann ... Met Eireann’s latest weather maps show temperatures plummeting to a bone-chilling -12C later this week. The 'Air Temperature' model ...

SOUTH East Limerick is going to be included on the Ireland’s Ancient East tourist trail ... if not the international map”. He put a motion down at the meeting urging the council to call ...

How was William Shakespeare’s work influenced by ancient Greece? Credit: ell brown. CC BY 2.0/flickr It was once believed that Shakespeare was intimately familiar with ancient Greek tragedies and ...

Less than 0.1% of Ireland's ancient forests remains and rather than solely the human impact, although that has had an influence, overgrazing may have been the forests death nail. That’s ...

An ancient Greek relief sculpture featuring an ear. Credit: Acropolis Museum An ancient Greek relief sculpture featuring a lone ear may seem strange to us today, but it was actually created with the ...

New weather maps show a "Beast from the East" weather front coming to batter the British Isles in a matter of days. WXCharts have released a new graphic showing the huge wall of icy conditions ...

A SHIPWRECK from the Iron Age has been recovered from the seabed decades after it was first discovered, offering experts a gateway into an ancient civilisation. The Mazarrón II is 2,600 years old ...

New weather forecasts indicate that a "Beast from the East" weather front is expected ... Despite new weather maps suggesting potential issues, the Met Office has indicated there's currently ...

In 334 B.C. Alexander's forces defeated the Persians at the battlefield, which enabled them to establish a foothold in Persian territory and push deeper into the Middle East. "The Battle of ...