These conditions may explain why the Gaeltacht is a potential hotspot for head lice. For some kids, it may be the first time they have shared close quarters with others.

A special Summer Stars collection is available on BorrowBox, the free library app offering eBooks and audiobooks to all ...

Six students from schools across Northern Ireland have contracted swine flu while attending an Irish language summer college in west Donegal. The affected students, who have been sent home, were part ...

There are kids in my class that I know would love the Gaeltacht but it’s expensive. When I worked in the Gaeltacht, I observed I was mostly teaching the children of doctors, lawyers and teachers.

School children taking the traditional summer trip to the Irish college are increasingly opting to fly to the Gaeltacht. In a sign of the times, where the last bastion of old Eire meets modern ...

THE SKY above the north-western coast of Donegal has an unmerciful way of devouring the daylight.

IT’S St Patrick’s Day today when ­everyone feels that extra bit Irish. However, ask most of us to string a few lines together as Gaeilge and we’d be in trouble. Despite the prominence of ...

Families offered €2,000 to send kids to class to boost numbers and keep teacher at Gaeltacht school. ... Scoil Naomh Pádraig in the beautiful Galway gaeltacht will lose one of its two teachers ...

Isabel Fortes and Miguel Ángel Ros and their five children will relocate to Ireland from Spain this summer for their rent-free school year in the village of An Chloch Bhreac in Connemara.

Matthew McConaughey says he is proud of his Irish heritage and wants his three children to speak fluent Irish. The 46-year-old actor, who has connections to Cavan and Monaghan, says he wants his ...

McConaughey married Camila Alves, a Brazilian model and designer, in 2012.The couple has three children. Speaking to the Irish Sun McConaughey said, “My kids are really privileged to call ...