Under the direction of award-winning Irish playwright and poet Darren Donohue, the junior class, aged six to eight years, and ...

The funding allows for the development of a new 13km walking trail along the existing Coillte wood at Blackstairs Mountain Trail and will also provide for new parking lots at either end of the trail.

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Night - Cloudy with a 22% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 41 °F (5 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 50 °F (10 °C) and a 56% ...

Coillte’s plan for an industrial wind farm in Co Carlow’s Blackstairs Mountains has found a second wind after An Bord Pleanála decided to concede in a High Court challenge to its planning ...

Built in between 1823 and 1839 with white granite from the nearby Blackstairs mountains, the house belonged to the Bruen family. The Bruens were hated after the Irish Potato Famine, with one local ...

Fire crews across Carlow have been battling a series of blazes on the Blackstairs mountain range. Carlow and Bagenalstown fire units were called to the mountain range, which straddles counties ...

Operated in partnership with landowner James O’Connor, who owns the well-known Forth Mountain Stud, the pods offer views across the countryside towards Blackstairs Mountain and Mount Leinster.

Duo tackled a vacant farm cluster at the bottom of the Blackstairs and now it’s all fully restored, at a tempting price, Tommy Barker reports. While there is a certain monastic simplicity and se ...

The initiative hopes to operate over two years in the Cambrian Mountains and Preseli Hills in Wales and the Wicklow Mountains and Blackstairs Mountains in Ireland. These areas will be used to promote ...

Wexford band Corner Boy have returned with their new single Blackstairs Winter Snow, the first track from upcoming debut album. We asked them the BIG questions . . . Produced by Gavin Glass in ...

The river event in the Blackstairs was very successful. A VERY special took place recently at the source of the river Burren, near the Nine Stones viewing point on Mount Leinster. The event was ...