After Wednesday’s weather spectacular in West Cork, light winds returned for the Cork Dry Gin Calves Week fleet for a three-hour race around the islands of Roaringwater Bay.

Spectacular conditions on Roaringwater Bay rewarded the 76 boats competing in Cork Dry Gin Calves Week yesterday as the race committee opted to bring forward the long race around the Fastnet lighthouse from today’s original schedule.

Your spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box tonight.

Tune into TV3 at 10pm tonight for The People's Debate with Vincent Browne. The motion for debate tonight is “The liberation of women in Ireland has yet to be accomplished."

What saves this violent revenge film is that it knows it’s daft but asks us to sit back and enjoy it anyway … which, for the most part, we do (with a tinge of guilt).

The Saga continues, though you have to be a dedicated fan – even something of an expert on the storyline or at least a teenage girl – to properly enjoy these films.

Teenage misfit Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) moves to Forks, Washington, to live with her cop father Charlie (Billy Burke).

There’s something nasty going on on the website, people are logging on to indulge in murders most horrible and it’s up to our heroine (Lane) to find out who’s behind it.

THERE are fundamental points which rarely get voiced on issues such as the availability of so-called party pills (Irish Examiner, October 16/17) and the knee-jerk reaction that resulted in the ban on magic mushrooms.

Leinster champions Enniscorthy Golf Club won the Irish Mixed Foursomes title for the first time in its history at Clandeboye Golf Club today.

A 23-YEAR-OLD woman, for whom a life-saving lung transplant operation had to be called off twice recently, died yesterday at Cork University Hospital.

We are being invaded by firemen, what with a new drama starting on Sky and this film.

In April, 5,000 people brought Killorglin to a standstill in a bid to save Billy Burke's life. Donal Hickey was there on that emotion-filled day.

THE Kerryman who touched the hearts of Irish people with his impassioned plea to be allowed a lung transplant has died while awaiting a suitable donor.

BILLY Burke’s tragic death is a bitter metaphor for Ireland’s flawed health service and its long-running dependence on Britain for lifesaving lung transplants.

“I REFUSE to die without a chance to live.”

The Government could only stand by and watch as Billy Burke died, says Paul O’Brien.

A cystic fibrosis sufferer who had been waiting for a double lung transplant for almost four years died today without receiving the operation.

A 29-YEAR-OLD man waiting for a life-saving lung transplant yesterday pleaded with people to carry organ donor cards.

THE plight of Kerry man Billy Burke, whose life hangs on a thread as he awaits a lung transplant operation, has prompted some people to tear up their donor cards.

TRANSPLANT hopeful Billy Burke’s battle to survive on an organ waiting list so touched one well-wisher he offered to be a donor for the young Kerryman.

THE harrowing case of Billy Burke is not going to go away. Proof, if it were needed, of that fact was amply demonstrated on the streets of Killorglin yesterday.

THE State’s controversial lung swap agreement with an English hospital may have to continue indefinitely as delays prevent the completion of the country’s own transplant unit.

More than 5,000 protesters took to the streets today in a last-ditch appeal to the Government to cut through the red tape they claim is preventing an urgent lung transplant in the UK.

AT least three Irish patients have been refused surgery at the British hospital which is refusing to offer Billy Burke a lung transplant operation, it has emerged.

AN ANGUISHED family last night begged Health Minister Mícheál Martin to cut the red tape that is denying their son a chance to live.

Time is running out for Billy Burke, the young Kerry man who desperately needs a lung transplant to pursue even just a hope of life.

HEALTH Minister Mícheál Martin is to urge surgeons involved in Ireland's transplant programme to give a lung transplant to a young man struggling to stay alive.

SLOWLY strangled by bureaucratic red tape, Billy Burke’s young life is ebbing away.

BUSINESSES in Killorglin, Co Kerry, are to shut down for one hour in protest over Health Minister Micheál Martin's refusal to intervene to help a local man get a life-saving lung transplant.