Sometimes you are better off asking your hubby-to-be what went on at his stag do, before venting your fury at his treatment by a hotel all over Facebook.

ANOTHER day for the diehards in Clonmel yesterday, another Arctic morning of hard frost and heavy snow; spring, yes, but this was a reminder of what this sport can be like in darkest winter, an occasion on which finery is only for the birds and the uninitiated – this was a day for all the heaviest underwear and outerwear you could muster.

THE only singer in the house is the Singer sewing machine, say the owners of Kinsale’s Fisherman’s Hall, a place that hits the right note on all other fronts.