Traffic and building shoulder height issues have been raised in a submission by management of Cork’s Elysian development in relation to revised office block plans for a neighbouring city centre site.

ADAM Whitbourn’s mission statement when he took over as head gardener at Blarney Castle was that he wanted ‘to make the gardens as famous in their own right as the castle’.

Blarney Castle’s iconic stone is supposed to bestow the gift of eloquence on those who kiss it, but family in-fighting at the castle has been far from eloquent.

Building work has started on a new Garda station to replace one gutted in an arson attack almost five years ago.

Two men are facing trial on charges of stealing €10,000 worth of oak trees from the property of Charles Colthurst of Blarney Castle.

The owner of Blarney Castle wanted a €5,000 down payment, and a cut of traders’ profits, before he would sanction a St Patrick’s Day street market on the local village green, it was claimed last night.

The owner of Blarney Castle is standing over his decision to pull the plug on a key element of the Cork village’s St Patrick’s Day festival.

The controversy over the St Patrick’s Day festivities in Blarney has the makings of old-style dispute between the people and the local landlord. Of course, in reality it is not nearly so simple.

A RACEHORSE called Blarney Highwayman was at the centre of a falling out between a horse breeder and Blarney Castle owner Charles Colthurst after the horse won his first race.

IS it the kiss of death for one of the world’s best known tourist attractions?

LEGEND has long had it that kissing the Blarney Stone on the Blarney Castle ramparts bestows the gift of the gab – but now it appears that the magic might have come from somewhere closer to the ground.

A FORMER New York policeman is set to launch a legal battle to reclaim some of Ireland’s greatest estates from their owners.

A CANADIAN who took a piece of the wall Blarney Castle during a visit last year has returned it following a spate of bad luck.

THE owner of one of Ireland’s biggest visitor attractions has claimed the tourism industry needs to keep Irish people instead of foreigners to curb the loss of overseas visitors.

YESTERDAY we reported that one in 20 British schoolchildren thought Adolf Hitler was the German football coach; that a similar proportion thought the Holocaust a celebration at the end of World War II.

A WAR of words erupted last night over claims that millions of people have been kissing the wrong Blarney Stone.

SHOW jumper Jessica Kürten’s decision to travel to the Global Champions’ Tour (GCT) show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at the weekend instead of this week’s Dublin Horse Show proved lucrative when she placed second in a jump-off class yesterday.

EVENTING followers will be disappointed to hear that Blarney Castle International Three-day Event will not be run this year. The event was scheduled to return to the eventing calendar in 2006, having not run since 2001.

THE owner of Blarney Castle estate is trying to eject a man who has lived on the estate all of his life.