If you’re making the most of your stove this winter, have a look at this hot glass plinth, writes Esther N McCarthy.

The stories that emerged from the European Senior Games in Poland this last week would put those of us camped on the couch of an evening to shame

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin yesterday denied that the Government had “capitulated” to the Bush administration by withdrawing its opposition to a controversial US-India nuclear energy deal.