Each year for Saint Patrick's Day, I pull out my favorite Irish Soda Bread recipe and start baking. Sometimes, we'll even eat three loaves all before Saint Patrick's Day has even arrived.

It’s 25 years since The Snowman first delighted family audiences in the cinema. And these days a family Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without the Ulster Orchestra’s annual Snowman concert.

With Christmas fast approaching, the Ulster Orchestra enters into the spirit of things with a host of seasonal favourites. Christmas Crackers abound in the Orchestra’s Christmas concert in Bangor Castle Leisure Centre when soprano Maureen Murphy takes centre stage on Thursday 6 December. Two days later and the Orchestra’s off to the Waterfront Hall.

Jobless rate in Ireland increased to 4.8 percent for the last month that undermines people's confidence in the economy.

A starry world-class line-up from the Ulster Orchestra offers Andreas Scholl, Bryn Terfel, Hugh Tinney, Finghin Collins and Sir James & Lady Galway as soloists in its four-concert series at the National Concert Hall this season.

“On [07-07-07], the New Open World Foundation announced the completion of a world poll to name the ‘new Seven Wonders of the World’…To see them all would mean traveling to Jordan, Peru, India, Mexico, China, Brazil, and Italy. A tour of ‘finalists’ would span the United States, Mali, the United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Australia, Egypt, Germany, Russia, Japan, Turkey, France, Chile and Cambodia …That would indeed be a wonderful journey.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

“On [07-07-07], the New Open World Foundation announced the completion of a world poll to name the ‘new Seven Wonders of the World’…To see them all would mean traveling to Jordan, Peru, India, Mexico, China, Brazil, and Italy. A tour of ‘finalists’ would span the United States, Mali, the United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Australia, Egypt, Germany, Russia, Japan, Turkey, France, Chile and Cambodia …That would indeed be a wonderful journey.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

Anuna Captivates Audiences With Breathtaking Public Television Special, 35-City North American Tour and Major Marketing Campaign.

HMSHost, one of the world's leading airport shopping and dining innovators, has been awarded the contract to redevelop and operate the food and beverage concessions at Shannon Airport in Ireland.

Throughout May, Ireland will see a whole series of events celebrating Italian culture. This film event consists of seven recent films including Martin Scorsese's epic tribute to Italian cinema, My Voyage to Italy.

A national workplace ban on smoking in Ireland resulted in an 83 percent reduction in air pollution in pubs, an 80 percent decrease in airborne carcinogens for patrons and staff, and an improvement in the respiratory health of bar workers, according to a one-year follow-up study.

The Ulster Orchestra is giving a helping hand to Northern Ireland's tourism. The massed voices of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union come to Belfast to sing for Friday's Waterfront Hall concert. They join forces with the Belfast Philharmonic Choir to provide the large chorus demanded in Mendelssohn's dramatic oratorio Elijah.