Irish stick fighting: The Celtic sport making its modern comeback

Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’

Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGeeThe border between Ireland and Northern Ireland used to draw smugglers, paramilitaries, police and soldiers, but the landscape of twisting lanes and hedgerows may soon entice a new type of visitor: literary pilgrims.A plan is under way to rebrand it as Ireland’s “northern literary lands” and to create the world’s first Unesco region of liter…

Irish stick fighting: The Celtic sport making its modern comeback

Bataireacht - or Irish stick fighting - is a two-handed combat sport, and it's growing in popularity.