The owners of the historic Lissadell Estate have won an appeal against a finding that rights of way exist on the property.

Plans for a Leonard Cohen extravaganza at Lissadell House this year have been scuppered over a row about rights of way through the estate, according to an international promoter.

THE owners of Lissadell House have secured it with barbed wire wrapped around poles and there are boulders blockading access to the Yeats Museum in a separate coach-house.

President Mary McAleese today became only the third living person to be given the Freedom of Kilkenny City.

NEXT week marks 90 years since the election of the first Irish woman to parliament — Countess Constance Markievicz.

THE planned renovation of Mountjoy Prison will be the new jewel in the crown in the heart of north Dublin.

The Minister for Transport has unveiled a memorial to Countess Constance Markievicz in Co Sligo.

A row has erupted over the timing of a state funeral for 10 Irish patriots executed by the British for their part in the War of Independence 80 years ago.