Residents are hoping to revitalise the Georgian centre of the town with the regeneration of Denny St, says Anne Lucey

Mary Leland delves into the rich history which visitors can enjoy at next week’s Dromana 800 celebrations.

Historic Dromana House in west Waterford celebrates its 800th anniversary next month with four days of extraordinary and varied festivities in the region.

A six-year-old wonder boy from Co Limerick has become the country’s youngest member of Mensa.

A six-year-old wonder boy from Co Limerick has become the country’s youngest member of Mensa.

An Bord Pleanála has received three appeals against plans to construct a major retail outlet on a derelict site in Youghal.

Terence Dooley

Bruff emerged in brilliant sunshine yesterday to stake its rightful place in the heritage of the Kennedy clan.

It is now widely accepted that US president John F Kennedy would never have visited Limerick in 1963 were it not for the persistence of Mayor Frances Condell.

White House planners did not include Cork in the first draft itinerary they prepared for President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

A pizza delivery man has been awarded €7,000 after a dog bit his finger when he was pushing a promotional leaflet through a letterbox.

A 13-year-old boy who sustained a serious brain injury on a rugby pitch was yesterday continuing to make a good recovery at Cork University Hospital.

A local controversy over a King James I charter has been resolved.

The Bell Tower Restaurant, Castlemartyr Resort,

The good working relationship between my father and President Reagan is well documented, as is the President’s intervention with Prime Minister Thatcher in 1984 to get the Anglo-Irish talks back on track.

The late Fine Gael leader and taoiseach Garret FitzGerald used a close ancestral connection with US president Ronald Reagan to help sway Margaret Thatcher towards the Anglo-Irish agreement.

Oisín McConville used to go through a funk believing he’d missed the first free.

A call has been made to Ireland’s diaspora to come home to where the heart is.

A call has been made to Ireland’s diaspora to come home to where the heart is.

MAURICE Fitzgerald has his history backwards (Letters, Oct 25).

HERE is a new song.

GARDAÍ are preparing a file for the Laois county coroner following the tragic death of a young man at the Electric Picnic concert at the weekend.

THE town of Naas came to a virtual standstill yesterday for the funeral of local student Sarah Fitzgerald — the second of two sisters to die within a fortnight of each other.

A LIMERICK couple whose only child was killed in a freak soccer accident when a moveable goalpost crashed down on him welcomed proposals to prevent a similar accident.

Differing regulatory regimes in the EU and the US could restrict innovation, make companies' operations more costly and will ultimately impede transatlantic trade, according to Niall Fitzgerald, chairman of Unilever.

A HEARTBROKEN family was today in mourning after a second son was killed in tragic circumstances in less than seven months.

IT'S LATE November, chilly night in Gowran, another evening of drudge, of trudge through the sludge after more weeks of heavy rain, for 23 of the parish's finest. But no one's complaining.

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