The Collins English Dictionary has taken to Twitter to find new words for its next edition, and is asking users to choose words to make the final edition.

A new guide to Dublin and Wicklow will be a failsafe companion for walkers everywhere, says Dan MacCarthy.

Size: Sq m 71 (770 sq ft)

A range of fun and inspiring cookbooks from Irish and UK publishers this year makes Christmas gift shopping a doddle. Roz Crowley picks the best

More than 80 words and terms including 'blootered' and 'amazeballs' have been added to an online dictionary.

PHISHING, googling and apps.

Anyone will be able to suggest new words for a mainstream dictionary for the first time today.

LAURENCE O’BRYAN

ADOPTED Irishwoman, the aviatrix Daphne Pochin Mould wrote the first book about Irish mountains in 1955.

BUTTERFLIES need your help.

A LEADING heritage campaigner has urged the state to loosen its purse strings, step in and buy Michael Collins’s revolver at an auction this weekend.

PIFF brehs don’t get shifted, you know?

WHAT could be more apt than to have the latest addition to the Collins English Dictionary met with a lack of enthusiasm.

PASCHAL COLLINS predicts a big future for Corkman Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan ahead of his pro debut, the undercard to the Billy Walsh/James Gorman Irish welterweight title fight at Neptune Stadium tomorrow night.

EVIDENCE in the trial of a former Fianna Fáil TD accused of obtaining a tax clearance cert by false pretences concluded yesterday at Limerick Circuit Court and the jury will retire this morning.

BUS Éireann and Dublin Bus could be forced to repay millions of euro they have received from the State if a European Commission probe launched yesterday finds the aid was illegal.

This lovely old-fashioned picnic pie comes from Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home by Rachel Allen, published by Collins.

This lovely old-fashioned picnic pie comes from Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home by Rachel Allen, published by Collins.

I HAVE a particular interest in eskers because I live on one. Most people know what they are — ridges of sand and gravel snaking across the countryside looking a bit like derelict railway embankments.

WE’RE bursting with pride here at the Ballymaloe Cookery School these days: three of our past students have books in the bestsellers’ list.

A NEW whiskey launched on the Irish market has left a sour taste in the mouths of some public representatives.

The arrest of a key informant during the investigation into the death of cattle dealer Richie Barron was a “charade”, the Morris Tribunal heard today.

A GARDA station diary was altered to show a different clocking off time for a member of the force on the same night an extortion phone call was made from that garda’s home.