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Rome's religious and cultural links with Ireland's Easter Rising 100 years ago.
By Mícheál MacCraith
This year marks the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which was the violent culmination of a long campaig...
20,000 less tourists in Rome for Easter following Brussels attacks.
There will be at least 20,000 less tourists in Rome this Easter, compared to last year, according to data provided by the capital's hotel association...
More light in the evenings but darker in the mornings.
Don’t forget to set your watches and clocks forward one hour at 02.00 Central European Time (CET) on Sunday 27 March.
Central European Summer Time (CEST) will...
Raggi sets out her programme ahead of Rome mayoral election.
Battling corruption, improving rubbish collection and decongesting traffic are top priorities for the Rome mayoral candidate Virginia Raggi of the anti-esta...
Rome's “mediaeval Sistine Chapel” reopens after 36-year restoration.
The sixth-century S. Maria Antiqua church in the Roman Forum, one of Rome’s earliest surviving Christian monuments, reopened to visitors on 24 March...
72nd anniversary of massacre at Rome's Fosse Ardeatine.
Italian president Sergio Mattarella attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Rome’s Fosse Ardeatine mausoleum on 23 March, in memory of the 335 people killed by the...
Rome monuments illuminated in Belgian flag colours after Brussels attacks.
Rome is increasing its security measures once again, in particular over the upcoming Easter weekend, in the wake of the Brussels terror attack...
85 per cent of city properties in Rome centre not paying rent.
Rome is owed €357 million in unpaid rent, accumulated over the years, from the city's 28,000 residential and commercial properties, according to a report...
All Rome flights to Brussels cancelled after Belgium terror attacks.
Rome's Fiumicino and Ciampino airports are in a state of heightened alert following the terror attacks in Brussels on the morning of 22 March.
Se...
The debate rages (among men of course) about whether a pregnant woman should run as a candidate for mayor of Rome.
Are men simply jealous that they can't be pregnant and run for mayor of the capital? Or are they just...
Four-hour Rome bus strike coincides with 24-hour nationwide train strike.
A four-strike by Rome’s public transport company ATAC is scheduled between 08.30 and 12.30 on Friday 18 March, affecting buses, trams, metro an...
English-language religious services in Rome during Easter Week.
VATICAN CEREMONIES
24 March. Holy Thursday. Chrism Mass, Vatican Basilica, 09.30.
25 March. Good Friday. Papal Mass, Vatican Basilica 17.00, Way of the...
Rome’s first Wall of Kindness designed to help the less fortunate.
Students from Rome's Marymount International School are creating a “Wall of Kindness”, where visitors can donate clothes to the less fortunate, on Sat...
Noted Italian buildings open for Giornate FAI di Primavera on 19 and 20 March.
Some 900 libraries, palaces, archaeological sites and religious buildings across Italy are open to the public free of charge on 19 and 20...
False friends, superabundant nouns and other confusables.
Martin Bennett
Sbagliando si impara, goes a wonderfully forgiving Italian proverb, tailor-made for non-native learners. Or, in blunter English: “You learn f...
Report shows quarter of Rome city staff off work at any one time.
Rome's commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca has promised to take tough action against absenteeism after leaked statistics published in the capital's dai...
WakeupRoma clean-up campaign promises to restore civic pride in Rome.
WakeupRoma, the largest voluntary clean-up campaign ever organised in Italy, is taking place on Saturday 12 March in four separate locations around...
Fundrasing in Rome for victims of Nepal earthquake.
Each year during the six weeks of Lent, Churches Together, an ecumenical fellowship comprising 11 mainly English-speaking churches in Rome, raises money for the Rice...
Rome's motorists blessed on feast day of S. Francesca Romana.
Each year on 9 March drivers in Rome can receive the blessing of the capital’s patron saint of motorists, S. Francesca Romana, at the monastery named in he...
Numerous "Festa della Donna" events in Rome for International Women’s Day.
Women have free admission to all state museums and archaeological sites across Italy for International Women’s Day on Tuesday 8 March. There i...
Roberto Giachetti voted Partito Democratico candidate on low turnout.
Roberto Giachetti won the Rome PD primaries to select the party's candidate to run for mayor in the June local elections.
Giachetti, the deputy...
Rise in seagull numbers coincides with decrease in Rome's sparrow population.
Andy Devane
St Peter's Square, 27 January 2014. As the Vatican's Sunday Angelus ceremony drew to a close, Pope Francis appealed for peac...
Anti-terrorism measures ahead of Vatican's Easter ceremonies.
Italian and Vatican security officials have outlined plans for the rapid evacuation of St Peter's Square in the event of a terrorist attack, according to a...
Guide to celebrating St Patrick’s Day in Rome.
St Patrick’s Day in Rome begins officially on Thursday 17 March at 10.00, with the annual Mass for Lá Fhéile Pádraig being celebrated by Mons. Ciarán O’Carroll at St Isid...
Release of Italian hostages follows deaths of two co-workers.
Two Italian construction workers who were kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) in Libya last July were reportedly freed on 4 March, following the deaths of the...
Italy gets tough with reckless drivers who cause road deaths.
The Italian senate passed a government vehicular-homicide bill on 2 March, setting harsh prison terms and penalties for drivers who kill people through rec...
Rat emergency in Roman Forum says archaeological superintendent.
Two booths at the newly-opened ticket office at the Colosseum were closed on 1 March after a dead rat was found on the premises, according to Rome daily...
Share N'Go becomes latest car sharing company in Rome.
The electric car-sharing company Share N'Go has launched in Rome, following in the footsteps of other car-sharing firms Enjoy and Car2Go.
There are currently 5...
Pixelpancho creates mural in Rome's Primavalle district.
Turin street artist Pixelpancho has completed a 10m-high mural depicting the Greek mythological tale of Theseus stabbing the Minotaur, in the disadvantaged west...
Lazio region offers €150 bicycle grant to Rome commuters with yearly pass.
The Lazio Region is offering a €150 "eco-bonus" to holders of Rome's yearly public transport pass to help them purchase a folding bicycle....
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