ICA Home & Living Magazine is proving to be a very useful recruitment tool, according to member feedback received by national president Marie O’Toole, which she shares in the foreword to the third issue of the magazine.

Defences against the spread of the small hive beetle, a major threat to bee colonies and stored honey, have been strengthened across Ireland, it was revealed yesterday.

The Irish Food Awards say that tests carried out on a honey brand submitted for its consideration by a convicted con artist and her partner — who were found dead in their Limerick home in May — show the product could have come from Ireland.

Hard times can hit those turfed out of the Dáil but one former TD does not want sympathy when she’s spotted foraging for food.

The family of Tania McCabe, a Garda sergeant who died in 2007 from sepsis following childbirth, were shocked to learn of “disturbing” similarities between her death and that of Savita Halappanavar.

The Department of Social Protection has confirmed that any parent who feels they don't need child benefit can arrange to have the payment stopped.

Yet another point for draw specialists Cork in a predictable result at Oriel Park, where Dundalk had drawn their two previous games.

SUMMER is almost here and with it comes that inimitable telltale sound, the buzzing of bees.

THE family of a young garda who died after giving birth to twins will be able to buy a life-saving incubator for other babies thanks to a charity sports fundraiser by her colleagues.

THE father-in-law of Tania McCabe, the young mother who died in childbirth along with one of her twin boys last year, has said he hopes the inquiry into their deaths will result in extra staff being provided to the hospital where they died.

SUMMER wouldn’t be the same without the drone of bees, as they busily and noisily convert nectar extracted from flowers to honey.

STUNG, not once but seven times, Philip McCabe still wants to have another go at getting bees swarm all over his body to get into the Guinness Book of Records.

An Irish beekeeper failed in his bid to break a world record today by gathering over half a million bees on his face.

LIMERICK-based charity Bothar has lined up a fund raising event which could buzz its way into the Guinness Book of Records.