IRELAND is one of the few countries in Europe to have held on to its rich tradition of legends, customs and stories. We have perhaps the richest storehouse, in both documentary sources and memory, a heritage for which we are justly envied.

The fairies will have their revenge.

The Constitutional Commissioners (or whoever, in their spare time, thought up the Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President Bill, 2015) must have little to occupy their time.

We Irish are surely a strange race of people, always craving some horrible aspect of our past or present with which to make a spectacle of ourselves before the world.

After taking an enormous bite of the Big Apple over the last six days, courtesy of the National Lottery, 78 prize winners touch down in Dublin Airport this morning laden with shopping and wonderful memories.

BEFORE Christianity appropriated this time of year, the winter solstice on Dec 21 was one of the important dates in the Irish calendar.

Well-known seanachaí Eddie Lenihan recalls the dares and games of Halloween to Carl Dixon.

DURING the summer, the discovery of what some people believed was a sacred tree, in a church grounds in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, led to sensational headlines that set off a religious frenzy.

A NUMBER of internationally renowned authors have been confirmed as participants in the Ennis Book Club Festival 2008, details of which were announced today.

IN VIEW of the great start to the Special Olympics in Croke Park, helped in no small way by the colourful flags made in Mountjoy Jail, could the Minister of Justice extend the feeling of goodwill by granting a small gift, say a week or two off their sentences, to those prisoners who made them.