Ireland, that I would fall in love. It would seem difficult to fall in love on a 4,000-acre Irish island with only 160 residents and at least twice as many sheep, but fall in love I did.

This enthusiasm brought us to Achill Island, off the west coast of Ireland, where sheep graze over the grassland. In a vast peat bog in this corner of the world, the 14-year-old Cian and the 78 ...

Even today, sheep outnumber the islands’ population ... There are only a few islands in Ireland bearing this name, but all, notes Sheehan, have early church sites on them. This leads him to ...

Sheep are still ushered up onto the islands ... The other two-something island in Ireland is Two Point Island in Dunmanus Bay in West Cork, but surprisingly the construction appears nowhere ...

Achill Island has many sheep. There are so many on this spit of land off the west coast of Ireland that they outnumber the island’s population of 2,345. Which might be why the man who fitted me ...

Friar Island is one of those places that is more than the sum of its parts. Each of its four sections, sort of like a distorted four-leafed clover, is unremarkable but together they form a very ...

Sheep farmers from many parts of Ireland attended the 2024 ‘EasyCare’ open evening, held in Co Antrim, writes Richard ...