About 500 people on 85 boats made the annual journey to the saint’s uninhabited island off Co Galway’s western shores

This small Co Galway island was once home to 127 people but now hosts daytrippers and wild campers looking for tranquillity and majestic summer sunsets

US president delivers final address in Ballina at the end of four-day visit to Northern Ireland and the Republic

US president says the chance to address the Oireachtas was ‘one of the greatest honours’ of his career

US president hails Belfast Agreement saying landmark peace deal ‘shifted the political gravity in our world’

Joe Biden starts four-day trip in Belfast where he is expected to meet representatives from five of the North’s political parties in advance of a speech at Ulster University on Wednesday

US president set to visit Belfast, Dublin, Louth and Mayo on his four-day trip to Ireland

Failure to agree new HSE tender before old one expires would put services in ‘legal limbo’, says representative group

Questions raised by some board members over process to select replacement for Dee Forbes to €306,000-a-year role running national broadcaster

US president’s great-great-grandfather Owen Finnegan came from the Cooley peninsula and emigrated to the US in 1840s

Events in Belfast, Dundalk, Carlingford, Dublin and Ballina are either already confirmed or being scoped out

Bono recalls being like ‘the referee at the big fight’ when David Trimble and John Hume took to the stage with him at a concert ahead of the Belfast Agreement vote

The president is also likely to address a joint sitting of the Houses of the Dáil and Seanad on Thursday, April 13th, according to sources in the Oireachtas

The former US president is expected to make his first public appearance in court in New York next week

Businessman’s counsel tells High Court says there is ‘a danger of trial by ambush’ if it doesn’t know content of Nobel laureate’s expert report in advance of hearing of his defamation case