There is really nothing in The Menu’s world to beat the breaking of bread with old friends, family, and neighbours and, equally, with strangers who might have the potential to become part of those previously listed tribes, which is why he is always delighted to make mention of Street Feast (May 5), Ireland’s annual day of street parties and community lunches, which last year saw 130,000 people take part in over 1,280 street feasts.

The former co-directors of the Together for Yes campaign to repeal the 8th amendment have been included in TIME magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2019.

Dr Vincent Carroll, GP, Public Health Doctor and chair of ARC Cancer Support Centres

"Nothing has changed...Nine or 10 people a day travel from Ireland to the UK (to access abortion services) or three take safe but illegal abortion pills at home."

The Pro Life Campaign has hit out at what they claim is the "grossly irresponsible" use by pro choice advocates of selected details of today’s news that a young woman had been denied an abortion under the 2013 Abortion Act.

A group campaigning for the repeal of the constitutional amendment that prohibits abortion has confirmed it returned funding it received from an international organisation following correspondence with the ethics watchdog.

Four years on from the death of Savita Halappanavar, the people of Ireland have shown they have not forgotten her.

The Union of Students in Ireland expect up to 5,000 students to join their national demonstration march this Wednesday, October, 19.

A Dublin pop-up store, selling jumpers with the word ‘repeal’ on them, in reference to abortion, sold out of stock yesterday, on its first day of trading.

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Ryan Moore is set to ride The Grey Gatsby in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot next week.

Hydrotherapy and pool sessions are being used by vets to treat injuries and obesity, says Nuala Woulfe.

Yesterday’s meeting at Bath was abandoned in bizarre circumstances after sewage problems in the jockeys’ changing rooms sparked a protest from the riders.

LEINSTER rugby player Kevin McLaughlin turned 29 last week.

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds will be among 500 Cork youngsters who will get a free day out at the circus next year thanks to solicitor to the stars, Gerald Kean.

An agreement to allow Irish couples to adopt from the USA is expected to be signed in Washington today.

A cancer support house is to open a new outreach service on the northside of Cork City.

UK race track Southwell will be closed for at least a month as repairs are carried out to damage caused by recent flooding.

It’s now got to the stage where an entire community has been intimidated into silence and where the near death of an innocent child no longer shocks.

RARELY more than random scribblings, doodles are the product of your subconscious filling the margins of a phone book or sprawling all over a piece of scrap paper.

ARC Adoption has become the first agency accredited to operate as an adoption mediation agency under the Adoption Act.

DON’T give up the day job is the message for many of the celebrities who put pen to paper for a cancer charity — but at least it was for a very good cause.

THE country is experiencing a gangland and drugs crisis, with entire communities facing intimidation on a regular basis, a major drugs conference has heard.

CORK City Council’s planning department has raised planning concerns with the backers of a new conference centre which is due to host its first event this weekend.

Cork is to get a new event 40,000 sq ft centre which can cater for concerts, trade shows and any other large event.

AN EVENTS centre, larger than the main hall of Dublin’s RDS, is to be built in Cork city within months.

MICHAEL Bell has ruled Sariska out of the Audi Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday because the ground is likely to be fast.

A NEW adoption agency to facilitate inter-country adoptions for Irish people is scheduled to launch in September.

THE launch this week of the Asset Resolution Corporation (ARC) by former Bank of Scotland Ireland chief executive Mark Duffy, suggests that optimism is emerging that investors believe the Irish property crisis will be resolved.

THE NAMA debate has moved on. This week and next, the Dáil will amend the detailed provisions of the legislation.

A NAMA-style private bank has been set up to buy property loans from non-Irish banks operating in the Irish market.

A LEADING drug project is reporting a sharp rise in crack cocaine use, with half of new cocaine clients taking the highly addictive drug.

Authorized will face a maximum of 14 rivals in Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

THE Government must urgently fund the country’s specialist breast clinics as many are not properly staffed or equipped, according to breast cancer experts.

A DRUG group said it will have to severely cut a planned project to combat drug use among children, some as young as 10, after it received half the funding it needed from the Government.

DRUG TREATMENT agencies and politicians have called for security to be stepped up at one of the country’s biggest hospitals as it emerged that the hospital is being targeted by drug dealers and is “awash” with illicit drugs.

ALCOHOL abuse costs the economy €2 billion annually, accounts for 25% of hospital admissions and most public order offences, a conference heard yesterday.

Connections of Bago have not yet ruled out a tilt at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Lucien Barriere at Longchamp next month.

THE highlight of this past week was the visit of the founder of Slow Food International, Carlo Petrini, to Ireland. This organisation could be described as the Greenpeace of gastronomy — the antidote to fast food culture.