To understand Ireland’s culinary present ... Cycling along this idyllic stretch, I pass a couple who stopped to help an elderly farmer close a wrought-iron gate. As Seamus says, at the end of the day, ...

Well, it was built above a natural cave and was once known as "Ireland's gate to Hell", which would open during the festival of Samhain. Halloween is the modern celebration of Samhain, a time of ...

The front cab of the vehicle passed through the gate posts but the body became jammed between the two iron gates, damaging the gate to the left of the lorry. The OPW said a specialist iron works ...

during the Iron Age," Ms Baker added. "Perhaps it is part of a pattern of ritual killings and sacrifice...there is a pattern of that across North-West Europe and Ireland." QUB professor of ...