ALREADY?! Shrove Tuesday has snuck up on us. Usually around now, time slows. There’s no bank holiday to look forward to. It feels like St Patrick’s Day and New Year’s Day are a year apart. New Year’s Day is a complete waste of a bank holiday, anyway.

A number of simultaneous artistic performances were staged around the country, as well as in London, yesterday, to highlight Ireland’s restrictive laws on abortion.

Spring is another country. So different are these bright days from the dark days of a month ago that one might think one has moved to another land.

Organic marmalade oranges: Contact Caitriona Daunt to buy her organic marmalade oranges on (086) 3623918 or visit her at her vegetable stall at the Midleton Farmers’ Market on Saturday mornings or at Mahon Point Farmers Market on Thursday mornings.