News from Blessington

Cards and flowers sit on now empty shelves in a drapery shop in Co Carlow that has served its community for 100 years.

30 March 2025

The Catholic Bishop of Derry has warned parishioners that someone posing as an ordained priest, who is part of a breakaway fundamentalist faction of the church, is conducting illicit masses in the diocese.

30 March 2025

The current owner of the house in which James Joyce set his famous story 'The Dead' has said if the Arts Council or the Government are interested in purchasing the property, he would be a willing seller.

30 March 2025

Irish-Czech singer-songwriter Joshua Curran has said penning a track for Eurovision 2025 has "been an incredible experience" and admits it's "really cool" to say he's the first Irishman to write a song for Armenia.

30 March 2025

Communions and Confirmations often come with a less heavenly side - the price tag.

30 March 2025

Defence Forces personnel will be able to avail of a new state-of-the-art body armour, with supplies due to arrive before the end of the year.

30 March 2025

Residents scrambled desperately through collapsed buildings searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,600 people in Myanmar and at least 11 in neighbouring Thailand.

30 March 2025

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government, appointing 23 ministers in a broadened cabinet seen as a key milestone in the transition from decades of Assad family rule and to improving Syria's ties with the West.

30 March 2025

Ukraine accused Russia of committing a "war crime" during a massive attack on the city of Kharkiv, which included strikes on a military hospital that wounded personnel undergoing treatment.

30 March 2025

Support for Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin is tied at 22%, a new opinion poll suggests.

29 March 2025

A senior Hamas official has said the group approved a new Gaza ceasefire proposal put forth by mediators, urging Israel to back it but warning the Iran-backed group's weapons were a "red line".

29 March 2025

A man in his 70s has died following a single-vehicle road crash in Co Donegal.

29 March 2025

The clocks will go forward by one hour overnight marking the official start of 'Summer time' in Ireland.

29 March 2025

Waving flags and chanting slogans, hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators have rallied in Istanbul calling for democracy to be defended after the arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which sparked Turkey's worst street unrest in over a decade.

29 March 2025

Denmark has said it did not like the "tone" of US Vice President JD Vance comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.

29 March 2025

The Dáil will never be the same again. That was the Taoiseach's view on a week where dire warnings about the health of Irish democracy were furiously issued by politicians.

29 March 2025

US President Donald Trump is proposing new tariffs on 2 April. So far, the situation remains fluid, and no final decisions appear to have been made.

29 March 2025

It has not been a good week for the CEO, the senior leadership team, the executives, the facilitators and the transport managers of the country's biggest drug trafficking gang.

29 March 2025

From Monday, motorists looking to renew or take out a new motor policy must provide their driver number.

29 March 2025

Health service unions and the HSE have confirmed that talks are ongoing at the Workplace Relations Commission aimed at averting industrial action in the health service in a dispute over staffing numbers.

29 March 2025