TCD provost Dr John Hegarty (left), Danielle Ryan from the Cathal Ryan Trust and Edward Kemp, director of Rada, in TCD  for the announcement of plans to set up an academy for dramatic arts at the university. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill A new academy will be established at Trinity College in Dublin. With the involvement [...]

Northern Ireland political leaders, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, announced the redevelopment of the Maze prison, the former top-security prison site. The redevelopment plans for the new facility will promote the success of the peace process. It will also keep the key prison buildings, including those linked to the IRA hunger strike in 1981 with [...]

Construction at the site of the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland will begin by the end of the year. The new pediatric hospital will be expected to open in 2014. The hospital will be a state-of-the-art facility with the voice of children heard in its planning, design and operation, according to Minister of Health Mary [...]

The making of a new National Film School on the site of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) is confirmed and will begin this summer after the Minster for Education and Science, Batt O’Keeffe TD, sent the project out to tender for building construction. Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan said [...]