Oscar-winning Hollywood icon Jeremy Irons has given his time free of charge to help a heritage centre produce a series of short films detailing harrowing, true stories of the Great Famine in Skibbereen, Co Cork.

Jimmy Crowley has started a new folk club in his native city, writes Pet O’Connell

A PRE-ELECTION promise has been fulfilled by a singing county councillor who has launched a CD to raise money for two sick children.