It's not the first Dutch-style roundabout in Ireland, but a roundabout on Templeville Road in Dublin is the first Dutch-like design to be retrofitted at an existing busy roundabout. The roundabout is adjacent to Templeogue College, where Templeville Road meets Wainsfort Road and Cypress Grove Road. As reported in 2023, Ireland's first Dutch-style roundabout was opened on Church Fields Link Road in Mulhuddart, Dublin 15.

The Israel FA has hit out at Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson, insisting his recent comments embody "stupidity, ignorance and hypocrisy".

Data-centre expansion will make it hard to source enough gas to meet demand during extreme cold events, state regulator warns

A young man in his late teens who was cycling was killed at around 8.05pm this evening in the area of Nugentstown, near Kells, Co.Meath. A Garda Press Office spokesperson said: "Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a fatal hit-and-run road traffic collision at Nugentstown, Kells, Co. Meath, on the evening of Tuesday 25th August 2026. The collision involving a van and a bicycle occurred at approximately 8:05pm."

Concerns are growing as essential work to upgrade the town’s underperforming sewage treatment plant will not now take place before 2030

Judge says minister acted lawfully in restricting the hunting of pintail, pochard, scaup and goldeneye ducks

Idea that climate action is about individual responsibility is as ridiculous as suggesting everyone can equip themselves to fight in war

An investigation is under way after hundreds of fish were found dead in the Tolka River near Damastown in Dublin.

Dublin City Council plans to provide two-way cycling on Chapelizod Hill Road, linking Ballyfermot and Chapelizod and wider planned cycle routes in the area. The short section of route would help link part of the Liffey Valley to City Centre BusConnects Scheme, which is under construction, to existing and planned routes around Chapelizod. The project would include a two-way cycle path along the current short one-way section of the road, and a cycle path in the westbound direction along most of the road from the one-way section to Kylemore Road.

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?

A wildfire on Slievenamon in Co Tipperary has "reduced significantly", according to Tipperary Cou...

Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.

<article data-history-node-id="445042" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-woman-delivers-stillborn-baby-israeli-soldiers-delay" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-woman-delivers-stillborn-baby-israeli-soldiers-delay" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian woman delivers stillborn baby as Israeli soldiers delay ambulance at West Bank checkpoint</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A Palestinian woman delivered a stillborn baby in an ambulance after the vehicle was delayed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Monday.</p> <p>The 28-year-old woman was six months pregnant and unconscious when medics collected her from her home in the village of Qaryout, south of the city of Nablus, Palestinian medic Bashar Qaryouti told AFP.</p> <p>"She was suffering from very heavy bleeding and her condition was extremely critical," Qaryouti said.</p> <p>The entrance to one nearby village was closed, forcing the ambulance to take dirt tracks through olive groves before reaching the Awarta checkpoint, where a gate was shut, and a long queue of vehicles had formed.</p> <p>Israeli soldiers emerged from a nearby watchtower and ordered Qaryouti to turn off the ambulance's power.</p> <p>Qaryouti said he explained that the vehicle's medical equipment was being used to keep a patient alive, but they forced him to switch the vehicle off.</p> <p>As the ambulance remained stranded, the woman's condition worsened, and the nurse accompanying her was forced to deliver the baby inside the vehicle.</p> <p>"The baby was stillborn," he said.</p> <p>After waiting for more than 30 minutes, the soldiers returned the crew's identity cards and allowed the ambulance to continue.</p> <p>When they reached the hospital "the mother was rushed into surgery to stop the bleeding", Qaryouti said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Sitka spruce, which originates in North America, is a staple of Coillte forests, but has long been criticised by environmentalists.

Dublin's Dodder Road Lower between Ely's Arch and Orwell Road is to be closed for a week starting on Monday, August 10th, and then permanently made one-way with a two-way cycle path, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has confirmed. In a project update note on its website, the council said: "Once the one-way system is implemented on Dodder Road Lower, vehicles will no longer be able to access the road from Orwell Road.

As of June 2025, Ireland was home to 89 data centres, which produce a significant amount of heat.

Together, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment initiated a court challenge to new regulations that put a cap on the costs litigants in environmental legal cases can recover if they win their...

Nature absorbs the impact of polluters because the political will isn’t there to make the consequences serious enough to stop them

Environment watchdog defends implementation of law as TDs claim families being driven out of business

What is causing most of the problems in our rivers and lakes is well known