Irish population was in serious decline before Vikings
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff21 Aug 2026
A study shows that Ireland's population was in decline for three centuries until the Vikings arrived.
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top 21%'Give the people a chance to grieve': Bishop says wider conversation needed after M9 crash
TheJournal.ieby Emma Hickey21 Aug 2026
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Garda operation targeting burglary gang on M50 sparked major manhunt through west Dublin
TheJournal.ieby Diarmuid Pepper21 Aug 2026
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The 9 at 9: Friday
TheJournal.ieby Emma Hickey21 Aug 2026
Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you. An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day. 1.
Pearse Doherty says there will be further fuel protests if excise duty cuts are not extended
TheJournal.ieby Diarmuid Pepper21 Aug 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg's Waterford castle: Why international buyers are seeking out Ireland's great estates
TheJournal.ieby Josh Pim21 Aug 2026
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It should be an anomaly to see a 13-year-old on Snapchat, not the norm
TheJournal.ieby Emer McLysaght21 Aug 2026
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'Let us study': Palestinian students 'heartbroken' over Irish government visa refusals
TheJournal.ieby Sophie Finn20 Aug 2026
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'Once he minds his business we'll be okay': Waterford locals react to Mark Zuckerberg arrival
TheJournal.ieby Eoghan Dalton20 Aug 2026
Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you. An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. LAST UPDATE | 17 hrs ago WHAT WILL MARK Zuckerberg get up to in Waterford?
Letters to the editor
TheJournal.ieby Sinead O'Carroll20 Aug 2026
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National review under way as Tusla reveals it had contact with three boys from M9 crash
TheJournal.ieby Niall O'Connor20 Aug 2026
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Gardai recommend boyfriend be charged with murder of New York woman in Killarney
IrishCentral.comby Kerry O'Shea20 Aug 2026
Gardaí (Ireland's police) investigating the murder of Jamey Carney have sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), in which they recommend that Ahmed Al-Saqar be charged with the...
Stars and Swipes: The USS Lincoln’s retreat exposes the cracks in Trump’s war machine
TheJournal.ieby Marion McKeone20 Aug 2026
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University suspends 'race realist' behind Jason Arday plagiarism charges
TheJournal.ieby Ottoline Spearman20 Aug 2026
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"Cat in the Hat" is not hiding out in Co Wexford, Gardaí confirm
IrishCentral.comby Kerry O'Shea20 Aug 2026
Gardaí in Co Wexford have responded after "The Cat in the Hat" was purportedly seen "causing havoc" locally and elsewhere in Ireland.
Number of Catholic baptisms in Ireland declined by nearly 30% over past decade
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff20 Aug 2026
The number of baptisms in Ireland has declined by 29.6% over ten years, according to a new analysis by the Dublin-based Iona Institute, which describes itself as a Christian advocacy and research...
Mark Zuckerberg buys historic Irish castle in Co Waterford
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff20 Aug 2026
Mark Zuckerberg is putting down roots in Ireland. The Meta chief executive and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have bought Strancally Castle, a Gothic-revival estate in Co Waterford, in an off-market...
The German airman who crash-landed in Wexford during WWII and fell in love with an Irish woman
IrishCentral.comby Shane O'Brien20 Aug 2026
It is November 2019, and Arthur Voigt Jr. looks on as a lone piper plays a mournful lament at a remembrance service at the German Military Cemetery in Glencree, County Wicklow.
This two-ingredient campfire treat gets a boozy Irish twist
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff20 Aug 2026
Campfire season calls for something a little more grown-up than the usual s'mores, and this two-ingredient trick delivers just that.
"The Quiet Man" scene that Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne had to get right in one take
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff20 Aug 2026
Maureen O'Hara once admitted that she and John Wayne had to get one scene from "The Quiet Man" perfect on the first take or director John Ford would have "strung us up from our toes."