Carol O’Callaghan checks out a long-running exhibition where Irish design is attracting growing numbers of buyers from overseas and from the home market, too.

A Donegal man who nearly died after he suffered a cardiac arrest during a game of golf last week has praised his fellow golfers for saving his life.

An exciting 1916 project is touring the country at the moment inviting local communities to have their 1916 family letters digitised and transcribed for posterity.

A century after he went to fight in the First World War, diaries and letters about the death of an east Cork man just two months later, can be seen by the public all this week.

Family records, historical documents and items from clubs and societies going back centuries are gaining more relevance as their contents are being detailed online.

The Irish Examiner has opened its vast photographic archive for a festive exhibition which offers a glimpse of Christmas past in Cork.

Possibly the last letter written by Cork lord mayor Tomás MacCurtain before his death will go on display near his Blackpool home where he was murdered in 1920.

Practical mixes with beautiful this week as Esther N McCarthy runs in tune with the seasons and starts getting organised for autumn’s embrace.

Gregory McGonigle’s Monaghan are firmly on course for a fourth successive TG4 Ulster ladies’ senior football championship title.

THE fascinating archive of businessman Richard Dowden, who was the mayor of Cork in 1845, has finally been catalogued after a painstaking 12-month project by staff at the Cork City and County Archives.

Hiding arms, providing safe houses, and monitoring enemy movements all part of republican women’s role, writes Niall Murray

ORDERS of more than €20 million are expected to be placed during Showcase 2012, a trade event featuring 350 of the country’s leading designers, manufacturers and craftspeople.

TO add to Gerry McCarthy’s fine article on Christchurch (April 14).

RESEARCHERS, amateur historians and people tracing their family tree can find out where the records they are looking for might be held without leaving their desks or even lifting a phone.

MORE than €22 million in sales orders are expected at Ireland’s Creative Expo which opened in the RDS in Dublin yesterday.

ORGANISERS of the country’s largest international trade fair say sales orders worth in excess of €22m are expected over the duration of the event.

THE owner of Blarney Castle has donated his entire family archive, some of which dates from the 17th century, to the Cork City and County Archives.

Last orders was called at Ireland’s oldest brewery today as it pulled down the shutters for a final time.

IRELAND’S oldest brewery will shut today bringing to an end four centuries of brewing on the historic site.

A NEW, state-of-the-art building to store and preserve one of the richest sets of local archives in the country was opened in Cork yesterday.

Today's qualifier clash between Fermanagh and Donegal pits the northern sides against each other at Clones.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness was today described standing ‘‘shocked and disbelieving’’ in Londonderry’s Bogside in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday.