Carol O’Callaghan visits an exhibition dedicated to plywood - an often overlooked material which has now captured the imagaination of architects and designers with its sustainable on-going value.

I’M SITTING here in more floods of tears than any teenage pop fan, listening to a magical song from 1969, released when I was two years old, writes Suzanne Harrington

IT is appropriate that West Cork and its annual literary festival should provide a platform for arts writer, cultural historian and biographer Nicholas Fox Weber to talk about his subjects — after all, he’s been coming to this section of craggy coastline for 40 years, and it has played a seminal and supporting role in more than a few of his 14 books.

AN apple never falls far from a tree!

PURPLE SPIRIT can consolidate Cathy Gannon’s position at the top of the apprentice championship by taking the Guillamene Maiden at Tramore this afternoon.