Much is made of the pub scene in Cork – and with good reason. Alongside cosy, rickety boozers with time-worn slopes on the ...

Just as we explored why the dive bar is so difficult to define, trying to capture what makes a pub is no small feat. The matter is even more complicated when peering through the microscope of cultural ...

Hire a car and drive towards the dramatic Glengesh Pass in the south-west, round hairpin bends, past bogland and timeworn cottages, and on to Ardara. Here, as dusk falls, you can hole up in The Corner ...

The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone's always ready to sing his or her "party piece." Performances are judged less by skill than by uninhibited sincerity or ...