Musical sorcerer Christy Moore somehow got the howling wind and rain to submit to his will on another magical night in the Marquee on Saturday.

THE credit crunch has forced a family-run company founded almost a century ago to close four of Munster’s leading toy shops, with the loss up of up 70 jobs.

Thirty jobs are to go with the closure of a chain of toy stores in Cork.

A MAN who drowned at Inny Strand in Waterville, Co Kerry, 21 years ago while trying to rescue his lifelong friend in treacherous conditions was honoured posthumously with the highest national bravery award at a ceremony in Leinster House.

A JURY has returned a verdict of unlawful killing at an inquest into the death of Brian Murphy, the young man who died following a “vicious and sustained” assault outside the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, in August 2000.

The allegations of abuse and claims of a sordid incest ring have ripped apart the Murphy family.

CLEVE HILL is set to come out from its self-imposed slumberland in 2007 and beyond.

A MAJOR collection of work by sculptor Seamus Murphy was unveiled yesterday by the country’s newest national cultural institution.

DUNNES STORES bosses Margaret Heffernan and Frank Dunne have agreed to fund the restoration of their derelict former home, historic Ringmahon House in Cork.

YOU can take “trading down” as a relative term — especially when you consider that the vendors of Lissarda House in Cork traded down to this quite large Georgian house only in the mid-1990s.