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Irish old timers recall blindfolded fortune games, coins buried in colcannon and the ball of light that led men astray. irishcentral.com/culture/ire…
From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a killer leprechaun loose in Compton, these horror classics all have Irish roots. irishcentral.com/culture/ent…
False faces, turnip lanterns, barmbrack coins and a black bin bag for a costume, Halloween in Ireland was something else. irishcentral.com/culture/cra…
A Tipperary boy who fled the Famine recaptured Union guns at Gettysburg and won the Medal of Honor for it. irishcentral.com/roots/histo…
Adults in Ireland say they need €3,575 a month to retire comfortably, and only 42% believe their pension will deliver it. irishcentral.com/business/ho…
Nicola Coughlan swaps "Bridgerton" for the manosphere in a gritty Channel 4 drama, "I Am Helen", that has Florence Pugh raving. irishcentral.com/culture/ent…
From Seattle to Sydney, your local Irish community news can reach a diaspora of 70 million people. Tell us your story! irishcentral.com/news/commun…
Pierce Brosnan is still the only Irishman ever crowned People’s Sexiest Man Alive, and we have 21 names who should be next. irishcentral.com/culture/cra…
Ireland’s former state pathologist reopens the 1711 Islandmagee case, where eight women were convicted on the word of one teenager. irishcentral.com/culture/ent…
Around 50 neighbours stood with candles in Dublin for Loredana Morosanu, as her partner, Daniel Simion Toader, faces a murder charge. irishcentral.com/news/loreda…
A routine work call turned to gibberish, and the colleague on the other end turned her car around in time to save Kieran’s life. The father-of-three had had a stroke. irishcentral.com/news/collea…
The West of Ireland has the highest concentration of castles on the island, and you can book a night inside these ones. irishcentral.com/travel/trav…
Bonfires, black cats and carved faces were how the Irish kept the fairies from stealing them away on Samhain. irishcentral.com/culture/iri…
You can still recognise one dead man’s hands in the dry stone walls of Connemara and the Burren. irishcentral.com/opinion/oth…
Kilkenny’s Dunmore Cave is 300 million years old, lined with calcite, and the site of a Viking massacre that killed a thousand people. irishcentral.com/travel/trav…
A stabbed jester at Malahide, whispering mummies under Dublin, and eight more haunted spots you can actually visit. irishcentral.com/roots/haunt…
Only 27% of girls in single sex schools can take Computer Science, and I Wish warns they are being locked out of Ireland’s AI economy. irishcentral.com/business/te…
Frederick Douglass held up a set of slave irons to a Cork crowd in 1845 and told Ireland that slavery was everybody’s business. irishcentral.com/roots/histo…
Long before he was the Big Fella, Michael Collins was a Clonakilty schoolboy, and a new documentary tells those forgotten years. irishcentral.com/roots/histo…
She knocked on the door of 25 Cromwell Street at 17, home to the infamous serial killers Fred and Rose West, and now a Dublin woman is breaking a 50 year silence. irishcentral.com/news/dublin…
