100 great restaurants, cafes and places to eat around Ireland for summer 2026
We’ve travelled all around the country to bring you this list of laid-back spots where you’re sure to eat and drink well over the stretchy summer days
Donegal
Joe Bonamassa’s tribute album to Rory Gallagher ‘will bring a new audience to Rory’s music’
US bluesman’s live album was recorded over three nights in Cork last year, recreating Gallagher’s legendary 1974 Irish tour
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Irish film-maker on directing Kylie Minogue’s documentary: ‘She walked in with an energy. I was totally blown away’
The Irish documentary-maker thought he was the hardest-working person he knew. But that was before he met Kylie Minogue
Gaza teenage sisters win award for turning rubble into reusable bricks
Donegal student gets recognition for biodegradable plastic that breaks down safely
Gardaí renew appeal on 35th anniversary of Edward Fullerton murder
Donegal Sinn Féin councillor was shot dead at his home in Buncrana in 1991
Worker called ‘negative virus’ awarded more than €40,000 after hours cut amid CCTV complaint
Norbert Batho claimed system was installed ‘without lawful basis’ under data protection law
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Learn the harp, embrace meditation or just go for a walk with new friends in rural splendour
‘Devastating’: Overnight fire rips through Cherrymore Kitchens in Donegal
Roads closed as emergency services respond to incident
‘They tortured us,’ one of seven Latvians trafficked to Ireland tells court after first conviction of its kind
One victims said he was treated ‘worse than a workhorse ... I felt that I had no rights’
It is illegal to commit electoral fraud in Ireland. It is also relatively easy
In some counties more people were registered to vote than the local population. The Electoral Commission is racing to ‘close the gap’
‘Finally the victims will get justice’: Ex-teacher who abused 19 boys to be sentenced
Abuse by Patrick Sharkey spanned dates between 1970 and 1995 with 59 offences in relation to just one victim
Man (60s) dies in tractor crash in Co Leitrim
Death brings to five the number killed on the State’s roads over the weekend
Four dead following road incidents in Co Donegal and Co Dublin over weekend
Three men died in two separate incidents in Co Donegal, while a pedestrian has died in a crash in Co Dublin
Sue Divin: ‘Character, voice, plot, pace, authenticity – if a writer nails that, I’ll read their novel’
Author Sue Divin, who has a master’s in peace and conflict studies, helps to build peace at work and in fiction
Woman (60s) arrested in connection with murder of Donegal man in 2008
Andrew Burns was shot twice in the back and was found on a roadway near Castlefin
Push is on to save LIFE as EU looks to scrap nature funding scheme
LIFE programme vital to efforts to bring Ireland’s corncrakes back from the brink
Bank of Ireland ‘discourteous’ to Supreme Court
Chief Justice criticises lender’s failure to disclose loan sale
A new Wild Atlantic Way? How nine ‘literary routes’ could form a map of Irish writing
The proposed ‘Literary Ways’ criss-crossing Border counties highlight writers from WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney to Nell McCafferty and Lisa McGee
‘TY changed my life’: Leaving Cert student wins global prize for microplastics ‘filter’
Co Donegal student Arya Satheesh (18) developed research interest in science after her Junior Cert
Bride-to-be who lay on road was killed by disqualified driver who failed to stop, court hears
Laura Connolly (34) died after she was struck by a van on outskirts of Lifford, Co Donegal
Wife of man killed by garda in Drogheda hit-and-run says her life has been ‘torn in half’
Niall McEneaney catastrophically injured and died after being hit by Michael Ball’s car on St Patrick’s Day 2024
‘We got it in neck over price-gouging’: Iran war another woe for Border filling stations
Taxes, competition from North, higher costs and red tape are pushing sector to the brink
Army bomb squad called in after suspicious device found in Donegal
‘Controlled explosion’ carried out on object, which appeared ‘discarded’
Road safety campaigner outlines seven actions that could save lives to Oireachtas committee
Greater policing resources and stricter rules for learners among moves mentioned in address by Susan Gray of Parc
Scarlett Faulkner’s cousin (10) in critical condition after fatal car crash in Antrim
Young boy was passenger in vehicle involved in crash in Northern Ireland on Sunday morning
Actor Carrie Crowley: ‘I’m not sure I’d like to be a young person in today’s world’
The actor on her ‘ferocious’ independence, her psychological quirk, and what she has lost and would like back
Ireland’s population is told it has never been richer, yet it has never felt poorer
The State takes in €126bn a year and cannot create a civil protection agency, a gas storage facility or a train to Donegal
Man charged after two gardaí hospitalised following assaults at Donegal council offices
A man and a woman in their 30s were arrested at the scene and taken to Letterkenny Garda station
Moya Brennan ‘carried the rich soul of Donegal’ to global audiences, funeral told
Enya, U2, Daniel O’Donnell and Andrea Corr pay tribute to award-winning Clannad singer at a funeral full of music
Salesman awarded €106,000 after Donegal business failed to comply with earlier wages order
Employee tells WRC it was ‘humiliating’ to be paid less than younger colleague after 22 years of ‘loyal and committed’ service
The nationalist tobacco shop that hosted James Joyce and Arthur Griffith
Its precious visitor books were rescued decades later from a barrow on Dublin’s quays
Tributes paid to singer Moya Brennan: ‘Her voice was the signature sound of Clannad’
Celebrated musician won a Grammy and an Emmy during hugely successful career
Man accused of Denis Donaldson murder remanded in custody until June
Antoin Duffy (49) appeared before the Special Criminal Court on Monday via video-link
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