Friends of the missing San Francisco yachting tragedy sailors held memorial services in Ireland and the US at the weekend.

The man who used to helm the US yacht which crashed, claiming the lives of two Cork sailors last weekend, has given a further insight into the sequence of events that led up to the tragedy.

ENA HOWELL thought the other five finalists in the ICA Volunteer of the Year competition were fantastic. “I was shocked to win,” says the Cork Federation secretary, who’s a mum-of-three and who has also been a foster carer for 22 years.

GARDAÍ investigating the killing of a young man who was badly beaten on a Dublin street last weekend are confident arrests will be made.

Is Anybody There? (Cert 12, 90 mins, Drama/Comedy,)

THE driver of the sightseeing bus was conveying his collection of assorted tourists past the Mansion House — home of the first Dáil, he explained loudly so the two passengers on the open deck upstairs could hear — when suddenly he came across a sight not on his itinerary.