home and gardensDamien Enright: Fruit trees are laden with their bounty as we prepare to leaveOn June 26, we sat outside the first bar to open here since lockdown began on March 15. There are only two bars in the valley. Cafes serve drinks, but these are bar-bars, the kind that stay open after midnight.
gaa'The craic just seemed to follow him around' - Tomás Ó Sé on his uncle PáidíI wouldn’t have boasted about him in school or anything, but I was hugely proud of him. His greatest lesson to us was to win with grace and to lose with grace, and not to be blowing your own trumpet.
generalHorse sense: new Garda recruit named after social media competitionThe newest recruit to the Garda mounted unit has been named Senan.