A drone crashing into an abbey, damage caused by metal detectors, and stones being removed from heritage sites are just some of the issues uncovered last year by the Office of Public Works.

Having lived next to Fermoy’s Blackwater River for over two decades, I was amazed by UCC Professor Robert Devoy’s claim on RTÉ’s Primetime that Fermoy’s floods were in some way caused by the building of the bridge.

COLLON is a pretty, if minute, piece of rural Ireland going unnoticed daily by the rush of traffic on the Dublin Derry road.