In 2006, geneticist Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, published the results of a study that had taken him a decade to complete. His team had collected and analyzed the mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome of 10,000 volunteers from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, with the aim of reconstructing the […]

Ireland’s iconic table mountain has a fascinating geological history.

Intelligence officials are warning that the New IRA is plotting a campaign of violence aimed at driving migrants out of Ireland, including threatening to give some just 24 hours to leave the country.

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Gender ideology was defeated by sex ideology this week. But what both of these outlooks miss is what really makes us men and women, says Dr Sinéad Murphy – and how it protects us from the control of technocracy.

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American heiress Jamey Carney was found dead in her Killarney home in July, after her teenage daughter discovered her body. Her Jordanian asylum seeker boyfriend is now the prime suspect.

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Photographer Shane Hynan explores the tension between the central role peat bogs play in Irish life and their wider environmental impact

“You can read Ireland’s history in the boglands. They hold millennia in their layers,” says photographer Shane Hynan of his project, Beofhód (meaning Beneath in English).

The boglands, known as portachs in Irish, cover roughly 1.2m to 1.5m hectares or about 14% to 17% of the country’s total land area. The raised bogs of the Irish Midlands are made of peat that forms at a rate of 1mm a year (0.04in) in low-lying, poorly drained basins or former lakes. As the historical geographer Kevin Whelan observes in the Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, “the bog has been etched as deeply into the human as into the physical record in Ireland – to an extent unrivalled elsewhere.”

Eddie and Con footing turf for domestic use, Knockirr Bog, County Kildare, 2022.

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© Photograph: Shane Hynan

© Photograph: Shane Hynan

© Photograph: Shane Hynan

Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests

Energy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across Europe, according to a report.

Ireland’s growing number of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricity, more than all urban homes combined, according to the Central Statistics Office. The equivalent figure in the US and UK is 6%.

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© Photograph: Sergio Azenha/Alamy

© Photograph: Sergio Azenha/Alamy

© Photograph: Sergio Azenha/Alamy