The vast photographic archive of a former Lord Mayor of Cork who founded the Barry’s Tea empire has been donated to his native city.

HO ho ho, Santa stacked the food shelves early this year, with tempting treats in place for nearly a month now. Some are already reaching their sell-by dates, so read labels if buying and hiding away for Christmas Day.

Gin has been becoming the tipple of choice for many Irish people in recent years, and one niche range is proving its popularity.

The famous Cork tea has teamed up with Blackwater Distillery to introduce a limited edition batch in time for Christmas.

Coca-Cola is the top brand in Ireland for the 13th year in a row.

Barry Auctioneers and Valuers is currently offering for sale a centrally located commercial unit in Cork city. This is a single storey mid-terrace property located at 16 Anglesea Street.

Children in mother and baby homes were "buried in the dead of night with no priest, no cleric, no ritual, no mother beside them”, writes Fergus Finlay

After a luckless run a week ago, when he was denied by the minimum margin, Droopys Oddysey came from last to first to set the standard in Saturday’s second round of the Barry’s Tea Open Tea, for trainer Fraser Black and the Diamonds Are Forever Syndicate.

Mary Hopkins reminisces on 30+ years attending the Cork Chamber Annual Dinner which takes place tonight in City Hall, Cork

Tayto crisps, Cadbury chocolate and Kerrygold butter are the brands Irish emigrants miss the most, according to a recent survey.

Prize Exhibit can land the upgraded Country Gentleman’s Association Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes at Salisbury today. She has two victories to her name already, both by nine lengths, but her most recent success was far more eyecatching than her win on the all-weather.

AFTER last week’s paean to oddness I realise that it’s not practical for everyone to be odd and proud. I forget that I have a bit more leeway.

It was a question that might have puzzled the Sphinx, but the answer lies in a simple pyramid.

A lot goes on behind the scenes before you sip your cuppa. Jonathan de Burca Butler meets a master tea-blender and puts himself through a taste test

Ben Brosnan knows he was spoilt.

What do our soldiers serving abroad long for at Christmas time? Their spouses know best, as Helen O’Callaghan discovered, when she spoke to army wives busy wrapping their present-filled giftboxes

A referee abandoned a county intermediate football championship game eight minutes from the end as he feared for his safety.

A long-serving county councillor yesterday succeeded in having a drink-driving conviction overturned.

Many of us think Irish brands are Irish made, but it is not always the case, writes ConallÓ Fátharta

Up to 60 employees at one of Douglas’s best-known bars were made temporarily redundant after its owners announced the pub would close for two to three months so it can be gutted and renovated following this week’s flooding.

IT is not always heavenly in Paradise, the imaginative name of the makeshift ‘resort’ at which we are staying on Sri Lanka’s south coast.

THIS string of small, forested rocks edged by white beaches two hours from the western coast of Thailand could indeed be called ‘paradise islands’.

THE Voice of Ireland talent contest on RTÉ1 seems to have caught the public imagination, with 708,000 viewers tuning in for its debut.

Europe's biggest single price discount retailer - Poundland - has opened its first two stores in Ireland.

THE passing of scrum-half rugby legend John O’Meara breaks a link with a famous golden Irish rugby era that yielded Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Five Nations titles.

SOME of the country’s top chefs will serve up their signature dishes on the banks of the Lee next month as the southern capital celebrates its renowned food culture.

Champion Irish greyhound trainer Paul Hennessy will branch out tomorrow night when he saddles his first two runners at a horse race meeting.

Ante-post favourite Taqleed is among a massive 90 horses remaining in the William Hill Lincoln at Doncaster on Saturday at the confirmation stage.

CARBERY Group was crowned Company of the Year last night at Ireland’s largest corporate entertainment event outside of Dublin.

AMERICAN consumers would like to have greater access to Irish food products, according to a new survey by Dublin-based Amárach Research.

A GOAL by full-forward Ger Hogan midway through the second half sealed St. Colman’s passage to the Harty Cup quarter-finals at Ardmore yesterday.

Claire O’Sullivan examines the London timeline and finds Neil Prendeville’s excuse simply doesn’t add up.

The Barry Group is to open eight new Buy Lo stores by the end of the year and also increase the number of Carry Out off-licences by 52 to 104.

CASH and carry wholesaler James A Barry & Co Ltd has posted after-tax profits of around €2.57 million for the year to the end of January, 2010, according to accounts filed with the Companies’ Registration Office.

THE acquisition of the Carry Out off-licence business is expected to add €42 million to the Barry Group’s turnover.

Paul Nolan is targeting Shinrock Paddy at Sunday's Barry & Sandra Kelly Memorial Novice Hurdle at Navan.

Cork drinks distribution firm Barry & Fitzwilliam is close to concluding a deal for the takeover of a franchise which has 52 off-licences nationwide.

Drinks distribution firm Barry & Fitzwilliam is now planning to do a deal to take over Galvin’s Wholesale, which earlier this year announced that a tax fraud perpetrated on it had put it into financial difficulties.

DRINK distribution company Barry & Fitzwilliam is hoping to gain control of fellow Cork-based group Galvin’s Wholesale – which went into examinership in September – by the end of this week.

CORK-based drinks distribution firm Barry & Fitzwilliam saw pre-tax profit rise 6% to €3.4 million last year but it said 2009 is proving much tougher.