Areas in rural Cork and Kerry left facing 20km-plus round trips

With equestrian sport’s world championships, the World Equestrian Games, less than three months away, Irish eventing was boosted at the weekend by a number of stellar performances at the four-star German meeting at Luhmühlen.

WORKERS are flouting company rules by spending as much as an hour a day on the internet for personal use, a poll for Eircom reveals.

More than 60% of those who can go online at work have restrictions to certain websites including social networking sites, entertainment sites, webmail and online shopping sites, a new survey has found.

ANYONE who has spent time in the capital will testify to it but now the facts prove it — Dubliners are all talk.

When it comes to having the gift of the gab Dubliners have come out top.