In the age of the electronic reader, Carol O’Callaghan looks at traditional materials and craft in bookbinding.

A project to honour a man whose family presented Muckross House and 11,000 acres, which are now make up a large part of Killarney National Park, to the nation has been launched in Killarney.

She ought to have known better, but Queen Victoria was “alarmed’’ when, surprise, surprise, it rained during her visit to Killarney.

It was apt that Killarney National Park should look its most blooming yesterday for an occasion to celebrate the life of someone whose family’s generosity led to its creation.

The first sod, albeit frozen, was turned yesterday on a €750,000 “replica schoolhouse” which will complete a traditional folk farm — itself frozen in the 1930s — at one of the State’s key tourist attractions in the southwest.

MANAGER of Muckross House, Killarney, Pat Dawson has been appointed regional manager of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).

WILL she, or won’t she?

A KILLARNEY councillor whose sons are in the jarvey business, was forced to leave a local town council meeting, under the ethics in public office regulations.

MORE than 700,000 people visited Muckross House and Gardens in Killarney during 2007, ensuring its position among the top five tourist attractions nationally.

A LONG-HELD belief that plants on a famous island in the Killarney Lakes may cure some ailments will be tested soon.

A €20,000 bursary is being made available by Muckross House in Killarney to students taking a degree course in Irish cultural studies at the Institute of Technology (IT), Tralee.