Located west of Galway City, in large tracts of Connemara, is Ireland’s second-largest Gaeltacht region. Here the Irish language lives on in songs and stories. Connemara and the Islands offer a wide ...

Every year on the last Sunday of July, thousands of hikers and pilgrims climb the legendary Mt. Croagh Patrick near the town of Westport in County Galway. The annual trek is to pay homage to Saint ...

BRUCKLESS, Ireland — Many visitors to Ireland make the trip in search of heritage, tracking down ancestors in obscure villages and wandering through ancient churches, pursuing the dream of a verdant, ...

A community in a small Galway village is raffling off a dream holiday for four people in the heart of the Gaeltacht to raise funds for a new local park. The small Connemara village of Leenane is ...

Dublin - Determined to repel an invasion of the English language, a local authority has proposed a ban on home building by non-Irish speakers in a scenic coastal area of western Ireland. The council ...