That was the self-written epitaph of William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet. It appears on his gravestone and was taken from the last stanza of his last poem, Under Ben Bulben. Benbulben is the ...

Strike missions don't always go according to plan even for a seasoned globe trotter like Nic von Rupp. While on his way from Portugal to Ireland, Nic gets stuck in the wheels of bureaucracy when the ...

If you follow surfing from around the world, you likely have heard that Ireland was the place to be for big wave surfers in December. Well, one of them, anyway. Mullaghmore went richter, and thanks to ...

You won't find Australian surf cinematographer Tim Bonython shooting tour surfers doing airs at Trestles. Bonython likes his waves big, really big. In fact, he has an affinity for the world's most ...

With the first large swell hitting Mullaghmore, a talented crew of local and imported world-class surfers, and the wind going absolutely manky the next day, all the elements were lining up perfectly ...

Conor Maguire has been surfing since he was 11, but his fearless exploits over the past few years have earned him a reputation as a leading big wave rider. "I'd been waiting for that swell my whole ...

During a recent swell at Ireland's most famous big wave, Mullaghmore, local charger Conor Maguire, along with a pack of other Irish big wave surfers, put on a show that won't soon be forgotten. The ...

With the increasingly fractious marriage-referendum debate saturating the airwaves during the final week of campaigning, light relief arrives in the form of a once divisive figure visiting the scene ...

Britain's Prince Charles (2nd L) and his wife Camilla (2nd R) listen to Timonthy Knatchbull as they visit the village of Mullaghmore where his great uncle Lord Mountbatten was killed in an IRA bomb ...

As John Maxwell sifts through a box of photographs to find some of his son Paul a postcard falls on the floor. It is a black-and-white view of Classiebawn, a cliff-top castle with fairy-story turrets, ...

The two teenagers who died in the explosion at Mullaghmore were Lord Mountbatten's 14-year-old grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull and 15 -year-old Paul Maxwell, from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Paul ...

Nazare is Europe’s most famous and scariest big wave. And rightfully so, given that million-foot peaks break there every other winter Tuesday, seems like. (More coming tomorrow and Friday, too.) But ...