A woman accused of setting fire to her newborn baby girl in the middle of a road has been charged with murder.

FOOD, be it the biscuits our grandmother gave us, the tea our mothers bought, or our favourite summer ice-creams, has a hugely important place in our memories, even more so for emigrants.

Food news with Joe McNamee.

Bewley’s Cafe yesterday said that it was "immensely disappointed" at a Supreme Court decision which means it must continue to pay annual rent of €1.46m on its Grafton Street cafe until the next review in three years’ time.

The Supreme Court has overturned a High Court ruling that the rent payable by the Bewley's on Grafton Street must be allowed to fall to reflect market levels.

The Quakers will hold their annual assembly in Cork for the first time in 360 years this week.

Bewley’s victory in the High Court is unlikely to help tenants struggling with upward-only rent reviews, says NUI Galway lecturer in land law, Padraic Kenna.

Catherine Fulvio, Mulranny, Co Mayo

THE conversation isn’t the only thing that flows when it comes to Beamish — yesterday the tears were flowing too among seasoned drinkers of that mellow blended stout.

ANDREW BREE said he was going to have to blow his personal best to get through to the semi-final of the 200m breaststroke at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, and he did just that yesterday when he set a new national record at 2:10.91, knocking more than two seconds off his old mark.

DUBLIN’s most famous cafe is facing a legal battle for survival for the second time in two years.

Ireland’s most famous café is facing a legal battle for survival for the second time in two years, it was confirmed today.

Hundreds of thousands of people downed a cup of coffee today as the vital annual fund raiser for hospice services got under way.

HUNDREDS of thousands of people were sitting down to coffee across the country yesterday morning to raise money for the Irish Hospice Foundation.

One of Bewleys much-loved cafes reopened on Dublin’s Grafton Street today after a six-month revamp.

IN contrast to Garret FitzGerald in 1986, Bertie Ahern is not prepared to consider State intervention to save Bewley’s.

Bewley’s today welcomed a public meeting at Grafton Street as an expression of support for the cafés but said the cafés would close next week as planned.

THE demise of Bewley's oriental cafés in central Dublin is "like part of Dublin dying", their emotional owner said yesterday.

TUCKING into a major work of literature for breakfast is like facing a plateful of giblets, gizzards and other assorted innards a tad on the heavy side in the delicate hours of morning.

CATERING group Campbell Bewley has reported a rise in pre-tax profits for 2002.

Over 3,500 people are expected to take part in this summer's tag rugby season, a 30% increase on last year.

HOW QUAINT can you get? Apart from looking picture postcard lovely, Roseville Lodge, on the Commons Road, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin has access via a pedestrian bridge over the Shanganagh River.