Samaritans Ireland’s 2024 Impact Report highlights the vital role the charity plays in offering emotional support, with volunteers answering 50 ...

A huge international blackout brought most of Spain and Portugal to a complete standstill today, with major cities across western Europe hit by powercuts. All of the Iberian Peninsula's biggest ...

You could blindfold yourself and randomly point to a European map and the odds are high that your finger would ... excellent traditional music and unforgettable nights out. In Cork, September sees the ...

Portugal, the world's leading cork producer, is finding new uses for the material, from footwear to furniture, as demand for wine bottle stoppers wanes. Producers highlight the environmentally ...

stools and shelves using cork from Portugal. The Lisbon metro in 2020 replaced the fabric lining on all seats of its train fleet with cork, an easier to maintain material. Builders have been drawn ...

Portugal is the world’s biggest producer of cork, with over 2 million hectares of cork forest covering the country. Around one-third of the world’s cork comes from Portugal.

one of the worst-hit areas, and now are focusing on dozens of blazes still raging elsewhere. Seven people have died as a result of forest fires in southwest Portugal.

Regional civil protection chief Antonio Nunes told RTP public television that the flames had touched a part of the Laurissilva forest, the largest surviving laurel forest, that is on UNESCO's ...