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When anyone asks Mick Ryan (75) how many children he has, he always says five. In his heart, that will forever be the size of his beloved family, even though he sadly lost his son to suicide in 2004.

Gurteen Jennifer realised a lifelong dream for the Mullens family on Wednesday evening last when she was crowned Supreme Champion at the 101st Connemara Pony Show Clifden.

Small in size but enormous in history, County Louth is Ireland’s smallest county — yet it offers a remarkable concentration of landscapes, legends, heritage and culture. At the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East, Louth is the kind of place where you can travel only a short distance and find yourself moving through centuries of Irish history. For anyone touring the Ancient East, skipping Louth would mean missing one of the region’s most fascinating corners.

Meitheal, a brand new community chamber choir from the Galway arts collective Unhinged, is now welcoming singers of all abilities to join. Under the artistic direction of Oran Tobin, the choir will create unaccompanied choral music rooted in Irish place, myth and living tradition, and it is looking for voices from across the community to bring it to life.

Every summer, thousands of Irish families face the same challenge: finding affordable accommodation for students heading to college. What should be an exciting milestone often becomes a source of stress, uncertainty, and significant financial pressure. With student rents continuing to rise across Ireland’s major university cities, many families are now spending €8,000 to €10,000 a year – or even more – simply to secure a room.

Galway City is set to benefit from a welcome tourism boost this week as thousands of American college football fans travel to Ireland for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin.

Galway will welcome the 2026 JCI World President, Alejandra Castillo, for a landmark two-day visit this week as part of the JCI Ireland National Convention.

There are places in Ireland where the landscape seems to hold its own memory, where rivers, hills and ancient stones tell stories far older than any written word. The Boyne Valley is one of those rare places. Winding through the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East, the River Boyne has been a constant presence for thousands of years, flowing past prehistoric monuments, medieval towns, ruined monasteries and fertile green fields.

There are few places in Ireland where the past and present seem to dance so effortlessly together as Kilkenny. Rising beside the River Nore in the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East, Kilkenny city is a place of ancient stone, lively streets, whispered legends and warm welcomes. Known affectionately as the “Marble City”, its narrow lanes and handsome buildings create a medieval atmosphere, yet behind those historic walls is a city alive with creativity, music, food and conversation.

There are few better ways to discover the character of Ireland’s Ancient East than by wandering through the gardens and grounds of its great houses.