The Aran Island of Inis Meáin and Mayo’s Clare Island are among the beneficiaries of a new round of CLÁR funding for community projects. Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, ...

Hearing rumours of empty space, tranquillity and generous repopulation grants, we set sail for Ireland's offshore islands, dreaming of freedom ...

A €2.75m contract for a ferry to Inishbofin island from the Galway coast has been given the green light as it comes into effect this week. The five-year contract has been agreed between the Department ...

Dodging mountain sheep as I made my way along the rugged coastline of the tiny island of Inishbofin, I stopped to take a deep breath and soak it all in. Having laughed and cried my way through The ...

The body of Inishbofin Island local John Burke was recovered by rescue crews in the early hours of Thursday morning Tributes are being paid to a much-loved Galway fisherman who was recovered from the ...

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Thirteen skulls stolen by academics that were returned to a Co Galway island this year are to spend “their first Christmas at home in 133 years”, a local historian has said. A reburial ceremony for ...

The remains of 13 people, which were stolen in 1890, were returned to the island last Sunday, but it has been a 10-year journey to make that happen, writes Ciarán Walsh Tuuli Rantala and Marie Coyne ...

THIRTEEN human skulls stolen from a monastery off the coast of Ireland were returned to their resting place at the weekend. The remains were taken from Inishbofin island by two men who affiliated with ...

The remains of 13 Inishbofin residents, which were stolen in 1890, have been reinterred on the island. The skulls were removed by anthropologist Alfred Haddon and his colleague Andrew Dixon, exactly ...