Despite the summer stretch in the day, The Menu feels nothing short of a turbo-booster for the bould Neidín will enable him to attend every last one of an ever-increasing proliferation of food festivals around this glorious island.

THERE was a major surprise when reserve Rockview Head won a thrilling Gallivan-Murphy-Hooper-Dolan €15,000 Juvenile Classic final at the Kingdom Greyhound stadium last night, but only after a photo finish.

It has been suggested that my past as a Fine Gael politician renders me unsuitable and inappropriate as a broadcast presenter because of party prejudice. I want to confront this issue head-on.

More than 400 workers in England at high-street music retailer Zavvi are to lose their jobs after administrators today announced the closure of 18 stores.

Two people have been rescued this morning from a yacht that got into difficulty near Achill Island in Co Mayo.

A JURY has found that an elderly woman who went missing from a nursing home on Christmas night and whose remains were found more than two years later on Bray Head had left the facility at least two hours earlier than staff at the home maintained.

TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Peter O’Keeffe from Douglas has been a professional for less than six months but through hard work and perseverance lines up alongside Europe’s elite at Adare this week.

SCIENTISTS studying the workings of a potentially fatal superbug have made a huge breakthrough that they hope will help identify patients most susceptible to infection.

SCIENTISTS from the National University of Ireland, Galway, are leading one of the world’s largest studies into how microscopic marine plants might affect the earth’s climate, it emerged yesterday.

A search for a fishing vessel missing off the Co Down coast with two men on board resumed this morning at first light.