This transparent piggy bank will be put on a Carlow street - and the money can be used for anything
People will be invited to put money into the pig – and the money can be spent however the community agrees to spend it.
People will be invited to put money into the pig – and the money can be spent however the community agrees to spend it.
Darach Ó Séaghdha has a typecast character for every letter in the alphabet – the funny one, the vulgar one, the one with notions or the one who sucks all the craic clean out of the room.
They delayed the sale under a new Scottish law, allowing them to raise the money through public funds and private donations.
One grand prize winner will receive €8,400.
A new exhibition presents photos of 100 people born from 1916 to 2015.
Only 13,500 naturalisation certificates were issued to non-Irish nationals in 2015.
It has received widespread welcome from older people’s’ groups.
They were taken aboard the LÉ Samuel Beckett, where they received food, water and medical treatment where required.
*If you’re to believe Facebook’s take on the matter.
A 39-year-old dispatcher could face up to five years in prison.
In total the Injuries Board has awarded €128.45 million in the first six months of this year.
The building collapsed earlier this morning.
Women have even been banned from attending markets due to this sort of attack.
And two out of three of you gave more than you did in 2013.
The controversial law has been sharply criticised.
From Callinan to Kelly we look at the 12 individuals who shaped the political year that was.
This comes as part of a new study by the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
A director and a shareholder of the company were sentenced in court today over the incident
The Minister of State talked about the working group that’s tasked with suggesting how to reform the current system.
Angela Merkel and Barack Obama warned that Moscow’s military presence and shelling were triggering a “dangerous escalation” of the conflict.
Tikrit is said to be a hotbed of antipathy toward Iraq’s Shiite-led government.
General Prayut Chan-O-Cha made the announcement in a televised address to the nation today.
Research estimates that instead of having 213 people per square mile, there would be 850.
The EU response to Swiss curtailing of migrants should be aimed at the UK, not just Switzerland, writes John O’Donnell.
More severe weather is expected to hit flooded areas in the UK today.
If you did, you’d be terribly unpopular.
The MEP is calling on the EU Commission to fully investigate the health risks on humans and animals of high voltage overhead power lines such as those proposed by Eirgrid.
People’s negative impressions is preventing people from taking the bus, train and tram, writes Aaron McKenna, who says it’s nothing about how ‘snobby’ they are.
Clearly insurers are not building a mixed age profile of customers under their own steam, writes Patricia Conboy, who says those that don’t should be penalised.
Ireland has scored a hat-trick after being ranked the most generous in Europe three years in row.
There is not much coverage of protests in the media, with the result that many people either don’t know about them or don’t feel like joining them, writes Julien Mercille.
Landlords shouldn’t be allowed to rent a property unless it meets minimum legal standards and they held a cert to prove this, writes Bob Jordan.
CEO of GOAL, Barry Andrews said the international effort to respond to the Typhoon Haiyan disaster in the Philippines is completely inadequate.
The training programme will also help colleagues cope with the aftermath of suicide in the workplace.
In total, the bodies of 87 migrants – 48 children, 32 women and seven men – were found in dead in the desert.
Focus Ireland said the number of families becoming homeless every month in Dublin has recently doubled from 8 to 16 families every month.
Ten years ago today, an electricity power outage caused chaos in the northern American states and Canada.