THE past festive season was extra special for newly- weds Yvonne Coleman and James Twohig as it was on a December 26 night out that the couple first laid eyes on each other.

A young man out paintballing with friends has no blot on his record despite setting off a smoke grenade in a nightclub in Cork.

All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson avoided criminal convictions for assaulting two young women at a nightclub in Cork on her undertaking to pay €6,000 to family refuge charities and to cover witness expenses.

GAA All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson pleaded guilty to assaulting a second woman at a nightclub in Cork.

GAA All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson has admitted that she assaulted another woman at a nightclub by elbowing her in the jaw.

Liam Heylin One of the two young women alleging that GAA All-Star Camogie player Ashling Thompson assaulted her in a nightclub has told gardaí she will not be able to attend for the case on May 1 because she is in Dubai.

Four assaults in three pubs around Cork City over a short period of time resulted in a man getting community service and a suspended jail term yesterday.

Secret Garden is a family-owned stone cottage right next to a beautiful park on the Beara Peninsula, says Trish Dromey.

Brendan O’Neill felt a sense of peace and wellbeing on a visit to the Treaty city.

* Make and Take wedding flowers for DIY brides is a half-day workshop on April 2, 1.30-6.30pm.

¦ Blarney & District Garden & Flower Club presents a spring gardening night with DJ Murphy on Thursday, February 27, in Whitechurch Hall at 8pm. Everyone welcome.

IF YOU can put horses into burgers, why not cows into bars? Seasoned pub and club operators in Cork are set to cause a stampede of cow puns as they open their new premises, The Holy Cow.

The investigation of a spate of burglaries throughout Cork and Kerry where over €90,000 worth of property was stolen led gardaí to the door of a Lithuanian couple where they found some of the stolen property.

FIONNUALA Gill was a founding member of choral group Anúna, and a lead singer with Riverdance. The 43-year-old, who’s based in Portmarnock, now has a solo career and was encouraged by Eurovision winners Secret Garden.

AS I STAND at the Mulranny Park Hotel in Co Mayo on day one of a weekend trip, my eye races over the empty spaces, trying to comprehend the beauty of the interlocking mountains, the sweep of the sea, the sense of boundless landscape.

The new Big Brother contestants were today feeling restless within the confined space of the Secret Garden.

Curiosity got the better of Big Brother contestant Makosi today and left her facing a secret challenge – to feed, clothe and tend the secret housemates.