THE OLD pagan festival of Bealtaine, marking the coming of summer and the season of fertility, is still celebrated at an ancient stone fort at the foot of the Paps mountains, writes Donal Hickey

Struggling teachers are being helped out with a €20,000 gift left by a late Irish-American priest whose family got the same kind of help of their later father’s union more than 80 years ago.

A 12-PUPIL primary school near the Cork/Kerry border is to remain open, following the intervention of the Bishop of Kerry, Dr Bill Murphy.