The shortlist for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2019 was announced on Wednesday afternoon, with the eclectic list of nominees reflecting the rude health of music in this country at the moment.

For a glimpse of the vibrant state of the Irish music scene as we enter a new decade, St James’ Church in the heart of Dingle on the first night of Other Voices would be a good place to start.

Visitors were treated to a show of top class horses at last Saturday’s Belgooly Show which required lengthy deliberations before the judges could name their supreme horse champion.

There was a time in the distant past when it would have been unthinkable for a decade to pass without the name of Rockwell College being inscribed on the Avonmore Supermilk Munster Schools Senior Cup trophy.

IS there no end to the talents of the Moyross Monks?

A software engineer , furious with the US Internal Revenue Service, crashed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees today, officials said.

BOTH campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama say they know nothing about a new campaign advertisement airing on YouTube that attempts to cast the Democratic frontrunner and New York senator as Big Brother.

WINSTON SMITH sat in the bar, alone as always, the glass of gin in his hand. The smells were familiar to him, the smells of boiled cabbage and damp.

‘THE BROTHER’ was a comic but credible character created after the Second World War by the great columnist Myles na gCopaleen, kept alive nowadays in a superb one-man show by actor/comedian Eamonn Morrissey.

SWITZERLAND’S noble Saint Bernard dog, famous through the centuries for rescuing avalanche victims buried in the Alps, is finally bowing its sad, massive head - the fabled barrel around its neck now replaced with a ‘for sale’ sign.

JOHN OXX’S Montevideo is fancied to defy top weight in the Fitzsimmons Property Finance Handicap at Naas this evening.

GARDAÍ have launched a fourth inquiry into alleged child sexual abuse at a centre which housed orphans and boys with learning difficulties.

A retired Roman Catholic clergyman at the centre of one of Ireland’s most notorious church-linked child sex abuse affairs was controversially released from prison today.

A 30-year-old Waterford man, who was sexually abused by a Christian Brother, is to begin a civil case against the religious order today.

Big Brother's new housemate has been dubbed Posh Josh.