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All winter long in my childhood, our three lake boats lay like part of the furniture of the yard — upturned shapes against the shed wall, collecting frost and leaves, holding their silence. They were parts of our livelihood in those lean mean seventies, though as children we thought of them as playthings. From October to February they hibernated, dripping dry after months of wave and rain, their floorboards stacked indoors nearby, their oars resting like folded arms. I often imagined them talking to one another in the dark — trading stories of sudden squalls, of rocks struck in shallow bays, of whispered confidences between gillie and angler, of trout that flashed silver in the half-light before lying still on the ribs beneath the boards.

Rome Hibernia GAA hosted Annaghdown GAA last weekend as part of Round 2 of the 2026 Rome Spring Series, welcoming a travelling party of 41 players made up of 19 ladies and 22 men to the Eternal City.

It will be a homecoming of sorts as two of the dancers – Rogan and Shane – have Irish connections.

The Celtic World: A History, from Four Courts Press, will be introduced by renowned medievalist and scholar of the Hill of Tara, Edel Bhreathnach.

By Amy Joyce

The European Union has scrapped its plan to ban the sale of combustion-engine cars from 2035.

Maigh Cuilinn will switch focus from league action to knockout stakes this weekend as they travel to Jordanstown to face Ulster University in the opening round of the National Cup on Saturday at 5.30pm.

The Kia PV5 Cargo has officially broke a Guinness World Record title for achieving "the greatest distance travelled by a light-duty battery-powered electric van with maximum payload on a single charge is 693.38km".

“There are ideas sitting in sheds and notebooks all over the West of Ireland,” says Kathryn Reynolds of Ardán. “We exist to make sure those stories find their way to the screen.”

St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, is a specialised university focusing on theology and philosophy at undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional programme levels.