I met a man this week in Galway City who was a close friend in summers way back then, when we were all young and free and footloose, and happy as the fabled Larry.

From ‘oh, danger here’ to ‘the nation holds its breath’, the words of RTÉ commentator George Hamilton have become part of Irish football folklore. LIAM MACKEY meets the man behind the mic

I’m a familiar voice allowed into people’s homes.

I’m a familiar voice allowed into people’s homes.

An East Cork film company wants people with memories of a former dance hall to assist them in the making of a new documentary.

I always knew I’d be a singer.

Middle-aged men are the highest suicide risk group, according to a leading emotional support centre.

Developer Jim Mansfield, who made his fortune selling scrap metal from the Falklands War, was laid to rest yesterday in his home town of Saggart, Dublin, surrounded by his family and a wide circle of friends.

Mary Coughlan will join volunteers from the Dublin Samaritans today for their Christmas Carol singing on Grafton Street.

HE made his name hosting Today Tonight on RTÉ in the 1980s.

THE warning signs were there. The TV turned up too loud, trying to follow a conversation but missing the odd word or two, and problems hearing anything in a big crowd.

Pat McCabe is workshopping his new play The Stars of Bel Air with Corcadorca in Cork this weekend, writes Colette Sheridan

WELL, Happy New Year to ye all!

SATURDAY

The glory days of the showband scene are to be immortalised on four commemorative stamps, it was revealed today.

More than 2,000 mourners have paid their respects to showband legend Joe Dolan who was buried today in his native town.

IT’S BACK — and if this year is anything to go by, it’s back with a bang.

GOLDEN folk memories came flooding back yesterday as the National Museum of Ireland Country Life began to celebrate a generation that danced its way into history.

THE murder of three members of the Miami Showband, one of the most shocking events in Northern Ireland’s Troubles, was remembered at a special prayer service in Dublin on Saturday.

One of the most shocking events in the North’s Troubles was today remembered at a special prayer service in Dublin.

FILM FESTIVAL fans are on the home straight, but it’s when things get trickiest because the choice this weekend is almost overwhelming.

“MY life just came back” — that’s how mother-of-three Donna Whelan remembers when she discovered she could beat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a crippling disease that mostly affects women among 35,000 sufferers in Ireland.

A STUDENT has splashed out €130,000 for a Dublin bedsit that is almost as small as a prison cell.

STARS from Coronation Street and a host of well-known Irish personalities came together at the weekend to help ex-Boyzone singer Keith Duffy raise €80,000 for autistic charities.