Known as the fastest field game in the world, a sliotar can top 93mph from a good strike. Hurling is also mentioned in the 11th/ 12th century Leabhar na hUidre, while further descriptions are to be found in 13th/14th century romantic tale Cath Mhaigh Tuireadh Chunga. This latter account details a very bloody hurling game […]
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The Book of Kells contains lavishly decorated copy, in Latin, of the four gospels.
Hate, after all, cannot drive out hate.
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This organisation and its extreme ideology have received no proper scrutiny by the media.
Most people are completely ignorant of how radical Canada’s right-to-die legislation has become. This documentary from al-Jazeera exposes the incredible injustice of offering death instead of care. This has been printed with permission from mercator.net
A photograph of the two brothers in their coffins, their bodies mutilated and burned, was taken by Tomás Ó hEighin, a local Irish teacher.
The October 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel, and the subsequent retaliation by Israel, have transfixed global attention. And although there’s no shortage of extreme positions, the bulk of that attention has rightly taken the form of horror at the suffering and death of civilians, especially children, caught in the crossfire. Alongside the attention, many […]
Taiwan is looking for opportunities to contribute its strengths in green and other technologies.
His surviving verses date from the period 565 and 604, and are among the earliest examples of Irish writing in the Latin alphabet.