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Watch: news2day Thursday, 18 September 2025

A Dublin Fringe Festival play to help us understand climate change. An ancient discovery on Oileán Acla in Co Mayo. Plus more news from Ireland and around the world.

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We know that you all care a lot about our environment and our climate. Well as part of the Ddublin Fringe Festiva a very interesting play is taking a new approach to helping kids understand climate change! So Cathal popped down to the dlr Mill Theatre in Dundrum to check it out!

Teresa Mannion reports that a rare example of a ritual Bronze Age monument has been discovered on Oileán Acla in Co Mayo. The stone alignment had been hidden by ancient trees which were flattened by Storm Éowyn earlier this year.

The discovery was made during an archaeological field trip with US students from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. It is part of their semester at the University of Galway and Kylemore Abbey.

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