Also known as International Workers’ Day, May Day occurs annually on May 1. Today is the first day of May, which means it's May Day. Here's what you need to know: What is May Day? May Day is an ...

Increased pay, reduced working hours and better working conditions were among the calls at a rally to celebrate workers on Monday. Hundreds of people gathered on Parnell Square in Dublin city centre ...

May is just around the corner, bringing with it more school holidays and bank holidays to look forward to. But before the long weekend at the end of the month, we get May Day — which always falls on ...

Labour Day, celebrated annually on May 1, is a day dedicated to the working class and their contributions to society. Globally known as International Workers’ Day or May Day, it recognises the ...

FILE - Participants in an immigration rights rally walk under a giant American flag during a march through downtown Chicago, May 1, 2006. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) CHICAGO (AP) — From worker ...

Today is May Day, which in the Irish calendar marks the first day of summer. And it certainly feels like it as the country saw sunny blue skies yesterday with temperatures in the 20s. While Met ...

Summer is finally here...kind of. The weather is warmer, the central heating turned off, and those shorts and sandals are looking like coming out of the drawer - it must be reaching the end of April.

From worker rights rallies to marches for social justice, activists around the globe kicked off May Day demonstrations on Thursday. In some countries, it’s a public holiday honoring labor, but ...

As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read May Day by Gabriel Rosenstock below.

French police clashed with May Day demonstrators today as the nation marked its most symbolic public holiday. Riot cops were seen detaining people as protesters launched smoke flares and marched in ...

On the first of May, summer officially begins in Ireland. And in centuries-old fashion, it's also the time that many people in Wexford will gather their painted eggs shells, ribbons and bunches of ...

In the United States, Labor Day is celebrated on the first Monday of September, honoring American workers' contributions. This tradition emerged in the late 19th century, partly as a response to labor ...