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New Year celebration with environmental responsibility and sustainable development.

Ireland ranks 9th in the Environmental Performance Index, indicating serious challenges in achieving our environmental goals. The most dangerous pollutants of groundwater in Ireland are nitrates from fertilizer use on land and microbial contamination from septic tanks and spreading of slurry.

Irish Rail’s long-awaited Dart+ West expansion is set to move forward after legal challenges from two local businesses were officially withdrawn, allowing the €1 billion project to proceed.

DUBLIN – The Irish government has announced how it plans to deploy the €14 billion recovered from Apple in back taxes, marking a significant boost to the country’s long-term infrastructure strategy.

Ireland has introduced a striking new weapon in the fight against gambling harm: a voluntary card-blocking tool that allows customers to disable all gambling payments from their debit cards. Under the scheme, “customers will be able to instantly disable gambling payments with a simple ‘switch’ function,” a move launched by the Irish Banking Culture Board in concert with AIB, Bank of Ireland, and PTSB.

When machines begin to speak louder than people, a nation risks losing its voice. Ireland stands on that threshold today. In a country where words were once passed down by the fireside, algorithms now learn in place of storytellers. The digital revolution, which once promised freedom and knowledge, has brought a new kind of threat — the disappearance of the very language in which Ireland once dreamed, loved, and sang. Now, in the era of artificial intelligence, the country faces a question that resonates far beyond its borders: can culture survive in a world where even memory is data?