Marc Copland brings his gentle playing style to Cork at the weekend, writes Philip Watson

With Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney widely expected to be moving to greener pastures, Birdwatch Ireland has welcomed his "significant decision" to pay farmers to protect endangered farmland birds.

A British woman whose four-year-old daughter was shot dead by her estranged partner, lost her battle for life today.

PUSHING an anti-communist crusade that riveted America a half century ago, Joseph McCarthy manipulated his Senate hearings