For five short December days each year, sunlight pierces the heart of Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old tomb whose perfect ...

Is there a secret, second chamber at Newgrange? TG4 doc attempts to find out In "Rún na Bóinne," presenter Seán Mac an tSíthigh and a team of international scientists explore the possibility of a long ...

The Office of Public Works (OPW) and National Monuments Services (NMS) of the Department of Housing, Local Government and ...

The winter Solstice Sunrise at Newgrange can be watched live this year from a livestream link. The Office of Public Works ...

Newgrange’s annual spectacular illumination on the shortest day of the year will once again be shared with viewers around the world, as the livestream link is now available for everyone to join. Each ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., reminds us, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Let us drive out the darkness of hate ...

One of the interior passages of the 5,000-year-old Irish megalithic tomb of Newgrange. In this photo, sunlight enters the monument's main chamber at dawn on the winter solstice. Ken Williams The grass ...

Newgrange's Winter Solstice event was attended by thousands of people this year, a welcome return after no visitors were permitted for the last two years due to the pandemic. The Winter Solstice event ...

As the sun breaks the horizon this morning at 8.38 a.m., a cluster of people will huddle from the cold and repeat a ritual first practised 5,000 years ago. They will watch as the first light of the ...

Evidence from Newgrange suggests ancient Ireland was more egalitarian than once believed, with no clear signs of a ruling ...

A man buried in the inner chamber of Newgrange Passage tomb was the product of a union between siblings, according to ancient DNA analysis. He was also more distantly related to people buried at ...