With a massive menu on offer, more than 5,000 people passed through Cork City Hall yesterday for the Cork/Kerry Food Forum with some of the region’s artisan food producers sharing their culinary delights.

A ceremony to mark the naming and commissioning for the new Naval Service ship, the LÉ Samuel Beckett is underway in Dublin.

She’s the heiress to a family fortune, a trade unionist and gay rights campaigner. And just a couple of weeks ago she turned her back on the family business in a dispute over her attempts to turn Murphy Group and its 3,500 employees into a workers’ co-op. As Caroline Murphy prepares to hand workers her £40m in shares, Michael Clifford reports.

INCISIVE, clear, concise, RTÉ journalist, Séan O’Rourke, is dogged in his pursuit of a story.

A barrister who has represented victims of the Magdalene Laundries as a law student has been awarded a prestigious legal accolade in Britain.

Wexford captured a National Camogie League double at Semple Stadium this afternoon as the Slaneysiders prevailed in the Division 1 and Division 2 finals.

UP TO 2,000 workers who lost their jobs in Dell and nine of its supply companies yesterday attended the first of a two-day information forum to help get them back into the workplace.

Poet Seamus Heaney took a break from writing today to attend the opening of a landmark bridge named after fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett.

Gala All-Ireland champions Wexford dominate the nominations for this year’s Energise Sport Camogie All-Stars with 11 in contention for awards.

Leitrim 0-17 Wexford 1-10

Camogie is certainly in a healthy state if today's National League finals at Nowlan Park are anything to go by as a Limerick side trained by former senior hurler Ciaran Carey took a first ever Division 1B title, while Wexford came so agonisngly close to winning the Division 1A encounter before Cork edged them out by a point in a thrilling match.

EAMON Coughlan and Keith Wood are amongst the high profile board members of the new Irish Institute of Sport under the executive chairmanship of Sean Kelly.

SO, Pat Rabbitte told John Bowman on Questions and Answers that he wouldn’t put Fianna Fáil back in Government.

SPORTS Minister John O’Donoghue has set January 1 next for the establishment of the National Sports Campus Development Authority.

CITIES around the world yesterday hosted events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth.

Cities around the world will today host events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birthday.

Therese O’Callaghan

A detective has spoken of the lucky hunch which led her to serial rapist and murderer David Mulcahy.