Johnny McGuirk has admitted that taking down his former club, Craobh Chiarain, to secure a breakthrough Dublin SHC final place for St Brigid’s, was ‘heartbreaking’.

Plants that conjure up the otherworldly beings in their name are the ones to watch, says Fiann Ó Nualláin.

Brigid Gallagher moved from Scotland to Donegal in 1999, four years before being diagnosed with fibromyalgia. She said she was “forced her to reassess her life” and turned to creative writing during her recovery.

My research into St Brigid mentioned not only dairy but also honey and the tradition of eating a big plate of floury boiled potatoes slathered in rich homemade butter on St Brigid’s Day or St Brigid’s Eve.

Spare a thought for single belles this Christmas as they navigate intrusive questions about their love life. Suzanne Harrington offers some helpful suggestions for family and friends

Diane O’Connor has mined the breastfeeding experience for her stand-up comedy show, writes Nuala Woulfe

With these novels, Pat Barker and Michael Hughes revive the long and fertile tradition of retelling Homer’s great epic poems. The Silence of The Girls and Country deliver new and original recitations of ‘The Iliad’ — the final weeks of the Trojan War — in two different but very satisfying and successful ways.

Mr Mulcahy owned the Phoenix magazine and the quarterly Irish Arts Review, of which his last publication was this week.

In Mayo, they’re still praying for a miracle — or, at least, the end of a curse.

A new regulatory framework for water safety at Irish swimming pools is to be implemented following the death of a three-year-old boy last year.

St Kieran’s College 3-19 St Brigid’s Loughrea 1-9: Adrian Mullen was the man of the hour as he fired St Kieran’s College back into the All-Ireland post-primary schools senior hurling final.

A US-based nun has revealed how she was ’sold’ by the Bessborough mother-and -baby home to an American family in an organised adoption in 1954 and how she was reunited with her birth mother over 50 years later.

A spine-chillinging unsettling and darkly hilarious debut.

Ahead of World Hijab Day on February 1, Brigid Aylward reveals what life is like for a Muslim in Ireland and the reaction to wearing the traditional veil

When half a million women march on Washington to voice their fears about women’s rights, maybe it’s time to recall the story of the Irish saint who once ‘miraculously’ ended a pregnancy, says Clodagh Finn.

A brother of Jim Carrey’s girlfriend Cathriona White, who passed away last year in Los Angeles in tragic circumstances, has admitted assaulting two brothers as a result of a photograph taken at his sister’s funeral, a court has heard.

Corofin (Galway) 2-13 St Brigid’s (Roscommon) 0-5: In a way, it was a pity that referee Jerome Henry blew full-time just as Michael Farragher bore down on goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time, as another point would have given Corofin the biggest winning margin ever in a Connacht final.

Where do we go from here? It’s an inevitable question for a club that has reached the peak. After St Brigid’s made the summit theirs in 2013, it was obvious there would be a few players recognised the only way was down.

The national ploughing championships were held not too far away in Screggan during the week but around Cloona, Johnstownbridge, Kilglass, Broadford, Carbury and the general west of Kildare, the most important ploughing occasion of the year takes place tomorrow week.

Siobhán Friary (née Murphy) gave her new husband an extra reason to remember their wedding day.

I will make a full and free confession at once, and get it off my chest.

The family of Cathriona White, whose body was found last month in her California home, shortly after splitting from her boyfriend — Hollywood movie star Jim Carrey — praised her as “a small town girl with big dreams” who was “not afraid to follow them”.

The funeral is taking place of Barney McGinley, who was killed as part of an alleged Traveller feud in Co. Fermanagh last week.

Conservation and agriculture can be difficult to reconcile. But in the Burren Arlene Harris says farmers and a local environmental charity are learning from one another

It was relatively quiet in University Hospital Limerick’s accident and emergency department yesterday morning.

A man has been hailed a hero after saving his unconscious girlfriend from her burning home after a Christmas candle fell on a blanket while she slept.

A man has been hailed a hero after saving his girlfriend from her burning home after a Christmas candle fell on top of her while she slept.

A “Disappeared” IRA victim abducted and murdered during the Troubles touched lives with his love and friendship, funeral mourners have been told.

One of the IRA’s “Disappeared” victims will be laid to rest beside his parents today, 36 years after he was abducted and murdered.

Ballintubber 3-9 St Brigid’s 1-13

Corofin and Ballintubber will meet in the AIB Connacht Senior Football Final for the second time since 2011 on November 23, following wins over Aughawillan and St Brigids respectively this afternoon.

Your spoiler-free guide to what's on the tellybox this bank holiday Monday evening.

St Brigid’s 3-12 St Faithleach’s 0-7

St Brigids’ "drive for five" remains intact after a comfortable victory against last year’s beaten finalists, Western Gaels, in yesterday’s Roscommon SFC semi-final at Dr Hyde Park.

TIM ‘Boomer’ Carroll is a friend of mine. A Boston-Irish firefighter, he is. Don’t ask me what the ‘Boomer’ stands for. Something sporting, probably. Boomer loves Ireland. Starting with its literature.

Kalyan Ray

A bunch of green balloons were released into the sky as a community, "bereft of words", laid to rest one of its youngest, two-year-old David Roche, who died last Sunday.

A resident living near Croke Park has said all five planned Garth Brooks concerts should be allowed to go ahead, and that she is sick of the "ranting" of other residents who complain about the impact of the concerts.

"The Kerrymen are down from the mountains" was the greeting from a smiling Taoiseach Enda Kenny for some life-long Fine Gael supporters who turned out yesterday to welcome him to Killarney.

There was lots of spectacular action in an absorbing game in Hyde Park yesterday, before Castlebar Mitchels managed by the experienced Pat Holmes, saw off St. Brigids, and denied the Roscommon men a four-in-a-row.