Bold lettering on a quirky tee-shirt we saw a man wearing the other day declared that if you want to be happy for a day, get drunk, but if you want to be happy for life, take up fishing.

Plans are being drawn up to create a €750,000 visitor centre to commemorate the man whose name is synonymous with Gaelic football.

The latest tourism figures produced by Bord Fáilte make for mixed reading. The number of tourists visiting this country is up on last year, but the number of people staying here is down.

THE number of foreign tourists visiting these shores is marginally up on last year but hotels and guesthouses are suffering a major downturn in business, mostly due to high prices.