"Sisters in love, a love allowed to climb,
Even on this earth, above the reach of Time!"

As well as being Lá Saoire i mí Mheitheamh, today is also the start of Pride Month, so let me take the opportunity to say Bród sona daoibh a chairde!

Although undeniably cute, with their choclate-coloured coat and creamy yellow bib, pine martens are wild animals and will bite if you give them cause. The word for "bite" in Irish is greim.

Although Irish and Welsh are both Celtic languages they are from two distinct groups: the Goidelic group that comprises Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic; and the Brythonic group that comprises Welsh, Cornish and Breton. These are sometimes referred to as q-Celtic and p-Celtic, respectively, although not everyone agrees that is a useful categorization. Nevertheless it has stuck and does help with…

It’s the first day of the sixth week of the second semester at Maynooth University, which means that the half-term break that incorporates St Patrick’s Day (17th March) is approaching rapidly. It also means that we’re in the middle of Seachtain na Gaeilge, an annual international festival promoting the Irish language and culture, in Ireland […]