In the early hours of a summer morning, Niamh Scullion from Belfast, and her teammates, row their 12-seater currach past Islay Island, in Scotland’s Hebrides. They continue past Gigha, another island ...

Funding has been granted by Wicklow Rural Partnership, Minister for Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltach Affairs and the EU Commission under the Leader+ Programme to Blessington and District ...

"Making a currach - Michael Conneely," a National Museum of Ireland online exhibition, reveals unique currach-building video and archive material, part of the institution's role in preserving Irish ...

It's an image familiar to most Irish people – the sight of men carrying a currach on their heads as they walk down to the sea – but it was given a new twist this week when four newcomers to Ireland ...

A group of women who built a currach for the first time over the pandemic have successfully launched their vessel from a beach outside Kinsale, Co Cork. Dinny Wheeler, one of the ‘Baidín beoirs’ who ...

Dublin's Temple Bar is known for its craic agus ceol, but in recent weeks, visitors may have come across a currach too. The traditional boat has been built in TØN Gallery by artist Mark Redden. Mr ...

For almost a year, dedicated volunteers have headed to Belfast's Titanic Quarter twice a week to build a boat from scratch. But this is no ordinary boat. This is a currach - a traditional boat, as ...

Migrants and asylum seekers from as far away as Sri Lanka, South Africa and Pakistan are ‘connecting’ with Ireland through the iconic currach. It comes as part of Cork community boatyard Meitheal Mara ...

The volunteers have been building the boat in T13 - a shared cultural space in Belfast's Titanic Quarter For almost a year, dedicated volunteers have headed to Belfast's Titanic Quarter twice a week ...