Causeway secures €1.8m in investment for nanosensor platform

Diagnostics company based in North is a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast

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Immense timber structure found at ‘sacred’ Newgrange site during summer drought

Newgrange discoveries have ‘truly transformed’ our understanding of ancient site

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Sixty-six newly spotted Irish monuments reported during summer drought

Reports to National Monuments Service include prehistoric barrow cemetery, a henge, ringfort enclosures

Archaeological revelations in Meath offer a historic opportunity

Brú na Bóinne finds have captured public’s imagination, and raise questions for the State

Newgrange: Henge discovered may be astronomically aligned

Anthony Murphy says the new henge could be aligned to Bealtaine and Lughnasa

Newgrange: More ‘unparalleled’ prehistoric sites discovered

Government-ordered aerial survey uncovers ‘extremely significant’ features in Co Meath

Scorched earth during heatwave reveals new monument at Newgrange

Henge believed to have been built some 500 years after Newgrange

From cow to cone: the journey of Irish gelato

What’s the secret of making gelato? Marie Claire Digby follows Irish organic milk from a Carlow farm to a Dublin city centre gelato shop

Lesbian couple to retake church roles they were ‘forced’ to leave

Athy activist who asked women to resign ‘will not be intimidated out of the parish’

Why the Catholic right wants ‘cleanout’ in Maynooth

Teachings, rather than any ‘strange goings-on’, are main source of contention

Catholic bishops voice their support for Maynooth

Leading clerics back St Patrick’s College amid controversy

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Former Clerys staff protest at offices of store’s new owners

Around two dozen ex-staff urge management to meet them over outstanding wages

‘The world has fallen in love with Pope Francis, but we should be cautious’

As bishops gather in Rome for the synod, prominent Irish Catholics offer their views on the papacy

Archbishop in attack on ‘tabloidism’ in Catholic press