UK online supermarket Ocado has clinched a game-changing deal with Kroger as its exclusive partner in the US, securing its entry into the world’s biggest market and sending its shares soaring more than 80% at one stage.

A new state-funded 'drink link' bus will service 50 rural communities across Ireland.

A South Kerry coastal village without a full-time GP for more than a year is to have a permanent posting. Waterville has had a number of locums after husband and wife team Derry Gibson and Patricia Gibson retired in January 2017, after decades of service to the community.

Providing a home for popular if somewhat discordant sporting occasions, from soccer to cycling, rugby to hurling, Gaelic football to greyhound racing.

When Peggy Harding was 13, she knitted two identical chocolate brown Aran cardigans for the First Communion of her twin brothers.

Rathpeacon Guild arrived at Cork Federation AGM last month with a cheque for €630 for Special Olympics Munster.

Ireland AM was inundated with tea cosies after announcing their Great Big Tea Cosy contest this spring. Competitors were asked to knit or crochet a tea cosy.

Clare Federation is always up for fun ways to promote Irish, so it’s no surprise that their summer meeting featured a free game of Bingo with numbers called ‘trí Ghaeilge’.

Whether it’s raising funds for a nearby hospital or contributing to the education of six to eight-year-olds in the local school, Ballyphehane ICA Guild is all about giving back to the community.

ICA Home & Living Magazine is proving to be a very useful recruitment tool, according to member feedback received by national president Marie O’Toole, which she shares in the foreword to the third issue of the magazine.

Cork ICA Federation marks its 80th birthday next year and celebrations are set to start early in the New Year.

The tiny Cork guild of Watergrasshill hosted two major ICA events this year, the Cork Federation AGM and the East Cork Federation quiz.

A Wexford woman, who spent teenage summers learning Irish in Ring where she was never off the céilí dance floor, is the national winner in a new ICA competition sponsored by Gael Linn.

She’s president of Whitechurch ICA, secretary of the local Active Retired group and an active member of Whitechurch/Waterloo Community Association. 

Reaching out and reaching back were twin themes on the Co Clare ICA agenda last month.

Breeda Hennessy, South Tipperary Federation PRO, has been an ICA member since she was 17 and that’s well over 50 years ago now.

Dancing horses, apple strudel, sun, Schubert, and birthday celebrations — it was all part of the experience for nine Cappamore Guild members when they took a mid-week break in Vienna just after Easter.

Pieta House, the suicide and self-harm crisis centre, received over €3,000 at Cork Federation’s AGM in Watergrasshill earlier this month.

Since 1898, Dublin Fire Brigade ran the ambulance service and the emergence of the log book of the brigade’s headquarters in Tara Street from 1916 bears witness to the efforts to deal with the battle waging on the streets and the people affected, writes Las Fallon

Taghmon Guild member Mella Winters fought off stiff competition in Wexford Federation recently where she won the top prize for her simnel cake.

The knitted chickens that raise thousands each year for cancer research are the result of the concerted efforts of many – but it all started 13 years ago when a Fermoy ICA cancer survivor wanted to give something back.

Bantry ICA PRO Ursula Kingston has fond memories of the massive annual carnival held in post-Second World War Cologne.