On this day 100 years ago, women who met a certain criteria got the right to vote in Ireland. Women who could vote were over 30, possessed property rights or…

Auriole Fountaine investigates the enigma of Francis O’Neill: the police chief who saved Irish music. “ In any Irish city or town, you see statues of various people, yet very…

The Garda Post takes a brief look at the life and times of effectively the first member of An Garda Síochána, Sergeant Patrick McAvinia. The identity of the first member…

It was on this day, November 22nd, in 1963 that the then American President John F. Kennedy was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. The shooting occured at…

This week is National Science Week which is supported by Science Foundation Ireland with the intent to promote the potential that science and discovery offer Ireland, today and in tomorrow’s…

It was on this day, November 7th, in 1990 that Mary Robinson was elected the first female President of Ireland. On December 3rd, 1990, Mrs Robinson was inaugurated as the…

On Sunday the clocks went back an hour which gave us all some extra time in bed. Why? Because of daylight savings time of course. Most of North America and…

Did you know that Bram Stoker’s Dracula published in 1897 is mostly influenced by Irish culture? Many people believe the Americanised notion that Dracula transcended from Transylvania’s Vlad The Impaler…

Today is Friday the 13th so The Garda Post thought it would be appropriate to explore the history of where it comes from. Why is there so much superstition behind…

The ESB has created an interactive map showing when each town, village and parish in the country became connected to Ireland’s electricity network. ESB was established in 1927, at the…

A new campaign is calling on the public to help tell the story of Ireland over the past 100 years through everyday objects. National Treasures is a new project involving…

A rare collection of records from the Limerick Police Force of 1922 are available for viewing for the very first time following a massive re-vamp of the Online Digital Archive…

Given that North America was treated to an eclipse of the sun last week, we felt it was worth taking a look back at some Solar Eclipses throughout history. The…

The main telegraph from the sunken RMS Lusitania has been recovered from a site off the Head of Kinsale after a recovery attempt failed last year. The ship was struck…

Facial reconstruction analysis has been performed on a skull discovered at the entrance of Trinity College in 2014. For more than 500 years the remains of a young man, no…

It is 90 years since Dubliner Tom Farquharson inspired his club, Cardiff City, to their first and only FA Cup triumph, becoming the first Irish goalkeeper to lift the trophy….

The stories of Irish people who fled the famine are being told in a new exhibition in Dublin over the summer; marking the 170th anniversary of the Famine year 1847….

The pub, as we know it today, originated with the formation of the Licensed Vintners Association in 1817. At the dawn of the 19th century, most pubs in Dublin –…

Artefacts, the like of which have never been discovered in Ireland before, have been unearthed in Dublin. Pottery and glass dating from the 1600s was found during excavation of a…

Running in the National Print Museum from May 5 until October 1, ‘Green Sleeves’ takes a trip back in time, through over 50 years of Irish record covers. The exhibition…

As Ireland prepare to take on Wales this Friday, March 24 at The Aviva Stadium in an important FIFA World Cup Qualifier, we look back at a historic previous clash…

The Garda Post has teamed up with the Medieval Mile Museum in the heart of Kilkenny, to offer one lucky reader a pair of tickets to visit Ireland’s newest museum. To…

Last month’s list of recommended true crime podcasts proved exceedingly popular; hardly surprising given that podcasts are very much in vogue at the moment. Increasing digital media consumption and the…

Podcasts are not a new phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination but their popularity has exploded in recent years. An increase in digital media consumption as well as the…