Jamie Osborne and Tadhg Beirne are the last two standing from the opening day when five Kildare men took to the field for Ireland's Guinness Six Nations game with France ...

OVER the centuries, Irish traditional music has been shaped and reformed but two musical instruments remain at all times at the centre of Irish music making. Uilleann pipes and the fiddle were in the ...

“ONWARDS and upwards!” was the declaration from Claudia Reeves, the Director of Athy Film Festival after its successful second annual outing recently (16-18 January). “We had some very good audiences, ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If you were to judge by public-opinion polling, you might reasonably conclude that Americans have broadly ...

As a fight over the future of elite higher education consumes university leaders and politicians, most college students live in a very different world with very different challenges. By Alan Blinder ...

His name is synonymous with adventure, exploration and endurance. Ernest Shackleton was one of the most renowned Antarctic explorers of all time, leading pioneering expeditions to the furthermost ...

Getting a college education has traditionally been seen as a way to move up the economic ladder. But an analysis by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that the cost of a degree ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Claire Wladis receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Many college students don’t have enough time for their studies. This “time poverty,” as we call it, is often due to inadequate ...

College enrollment among young Americans has been declining over the past decade. That decrease is mostly driven by fewer young men pursuing degrees. A Pew Research study finds about one million fewer ...