Ireland Calling A site dedicated to all things Irish

In Irish woman discovered that she is not the biological mother of her 52-year-old daughter after taking a DNA test. Helen Maguire (71) left her baby with nuns to look after in the 1960s and has now discovered that they returned the wrong child.

A shocking new video has been released by the Road Safety Authority to issue a warning to drivers that it takes only a split-second for disaster to strike. The short advert will be broadcast on Irish televisions in the coming months and is part of a wider campaign to get …

Dublin will honour one of it literary greats as part of its 2019 Bloomsday celebrations, with various activities on the agenda from poetry and pub crawls to breakfasts and burlesque shows. From 11–16 June, Dublin, a UNESCO city of literature, will honour the genius of James Joyce in its annual …

President Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr joined their father on his visit to Ireland and were happy to mix with the locals on a pub crawl around Doonbeg. However, Eric’s skills at pouring a pint of beer left a fair bit to be desired, and his attempt was shared …

Lady in Red singer Chris de Burgh has put his Irish mansion up for sale with an asking price of a whopping €12.5m. The music legend explained that now his kids grown and up and left home, the eight-bedroom house is simply too big for just him and his wife.

Pope Francis has officially changed a line in the Lord’s Prayer after a mistranslation has meant that Christians have getting the meaning wrong for centuries. The line in question sees the person reciting the prayer asking God to “lead us not into temptation”.

A Cork couple were such good hosts for their American guests that they went viral after the visitors posted a glowing review on Twitter. Charlie Clarke, 64, and his wife Ursula, 60 listed rooms in their house on AirBnB as part of a plan to raise a bit of extra …