Search results for Rural Ireland

'The home I was evicted from in Cork is now an AirBnB charging nearly €10,000 per month'

For rural Ireland to have a future we must protect, and invest in, the people that call it home

Ireland's most picturesque historic villages

Get to know Ireland and its people by exploring these ten equally historic and picturesque villages.

Changes to Ireland's economy laid bare in country's first census

Ireland’s transition from a rural society in which half the country worked the land to the economy of today, where just one in 25 people earn their living from the soil, is reveale...

Richard Hogan: A seven-hour road trip where I saw the two sides of Ireland

An unplanned diversion through the back roads of his home country provided an insight into rundown rural Ireland — but for Richard Hogan, the final destination was paradise

Ireland’s dearest farmlands revealed in new survey

Farmland prices across Ireland show a widening regional divide, with new figures placing Wexford at the top of the market in several categories. The findings for 2025 point to a la...

Are these the prettiest villages in Ireland? We think so!

Immerse yourself in the country's rich heritage, breathtaking landscapes, and warm community spirit at the heart of Ireland's most picturesque villages.

How a famine-era prison became a community lifeline in rural Kerry

A rural courtroom from a time when ‘even a blade of grass was precious’

Rural pubs say they face ‘existential threat’, with over 2,220 pubs closing in past 20 years

Two-thirds say rising costs are having an ‘unsustainable impact on operations’.

Máirín Ní Ghadhra: Dúshláin bhreise le sárú ag páirtithe an rialtais de bharr fhearg an phobail

Ó Tower cheann Gólaim Thiar go Corr na Móna i nDúiche Sheoigheach soir go hEachréidh na Gaillimhe agus Cathair na dTreabh san áireamh, tá Gaillimh Thiar ar cheann de na dáilcheanta...

Decline in farming, religion and the growth of Dublin: 1926 census shows how things have changed

CSO figures show how Ireland has changed between 1926 and 2022.

An entire Irish village is on sale for £20m - and it includes a pub and watermill restaurant

Located just 30 minutes from Dublin, this charming Irish village boasts 20 stone cottages and was once owned by Ryanair co-founder Tony Ryan.

Who really pays for Ireland? What the facts tell us about Leo Varadkar's rural-urban divide

"I have always rejected attempts to create an artificial divide between rural Ireland and urban Ireland – to play one off against the other – east v west, Dublin v the rest. We are...

Landmark rural Laois pub hits the market at €350,000

‘My family took on a Loop Head schoolhouse that was 20 years abandoned’

The Old School House, Cross, Kilkee, Co Clare

Ireland a ‘leader’ in social farming as network marks 10 years

Social Farming Ireland is marking 10 years of the national network today (Friday, April 24) as it holds a national conference in Co. Laois. Social farming is the practice of provid...

Inside Old Irish Ways: Private Limerick museum recreates old Irish life but needs support to survive

Privately run Limerick museum filled with Irish artefacts seeks visitors and recognition as numbers fall sharply in recent years

The best counties to raise a family in Ireland, revealed in new study

Factors such as education, housing affordability, safety, green spaces, and access to local amenities all play a major role in shaping childhood experiences and family well‑being.

An Spidéal in a byelection: We're caught between dereliction, development and a lack of vision

Local resident, Toner Quinn, looks at how a half-cleared marsh, shuttered buildings and promises of ambitious new projects illustrate the challenges facing one of Ireland’s much-lo...

Ireland riding their Green Wave to the west coast

Ireland host Italy in the first of their three home Women's Six Nations games this Saturday, and as has been the case in recent years, they're bringing the show on the road.

‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows

Archive is freely available online from 18 April, revealing the lives, occupations and secrets of 2.9m peopleThe first years of independent Ireland tend to be remembered, if at all...

Mná tí ag éirí as an traidisiún: an bhfuil todhchaí na gcoláistí samhraí i mbaol?

Tá sé ráite ag bean an tí amháin i gCorcha Dhuibhe nach mbeidh aon mná nó fir tí ann i gceann 20 bliain mura mealltar daoine óga isteach san earnáil.

Kildare saw largest population growth since 1926 - Census

The population of Co Kildare has grown massively over the past century, with the 1926 Census showing an increase of 327% in the county, while Co Leitrim, Co Mayo and Co Roscommon s...

Do you agree with Leo Varadkar's comments on rural Ireland?

The former Taoiseach’s comments on rural Ireland being funded by urban areas have received mixed reviews.

Kylemore Abbey ‘honours legacy’ of estate labourers with restored bothy and tool shed

Benedictine nuns help to reclaim history of Connemara site built in ‘country still reeling’ from Famine