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Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht will today (Friday 19th August, 2011) visit the Edinburgh Arts Festival. The Minister will spend Friday and Saturday participating in a series of meetings and attending...

Three theatre companies supported by the Arts Council are to participate in this year’s 1st Irish Theatre Festival in New York in September. Fishamble (Dublin), Tall Tales (Navan) and Cirque de Légume (Sligo) are all participating....

The Irish Coast Guard is currently involved in its fourth medical evacuation this week (and it’s second in 24hrs) as it evacuates an injured crew member from a fishing vessel off the Irish coast. The Shannon-based Coast Guard...

Frances Fitzgerald, T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, today announced funding of €0.8 million under the Expansion of the Young People’s Facilities and Services Fund (YPFSF) to the four new towns of Arklow, Athone...

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is encouraging Leaving Certificate students planning to celebrate their results by travelling abroad to take a number of precautions to ensure their trip passes off safely....

No decisions whatsoever have been taken in relation to changing the school going age of children or abolishing the transition year. Today’s article in the Irish Independent is based on historic documents that were obtained under...

The Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport Michael Ring T.D, today announced that he has approved the Tender Report submitted by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for the new...

I wish to thank Cumann Merriman for the kind invitation to be with you here tonight in Lisdoonvara. As Minister for Children and Youth Affairs it is a great honour and sincere privilege for me to be asked to address the opening of this summer school on the theme of ’Changing Irish Childhoods’....

Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht will this evening (Wednesday 17th August, 2011) officially open – Ground Zero 360° - a new exhibition portraying the story of September 11, 2001 and the...

The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, TD, welcomed the publication today of the BAI’s Report on its search for new services for Saorview, Ireland’s free to air digital terrestrial television network....