The Bookstór at Newman’s Mall in Kinsale, Co Cork, is owned by Stuart Gallagher, and run by Helen O’Connell and Heather Maiden. The book sells new and second-hand books. We spoke to Helen O’Connell.

Rachel Marie Walsh meets Derry-born Jonathan Anderson, London Fashion Week’s “pride and joy”.

Roger Daltrey’s memoir is typically honest about the highs and lows of life in The Who, writes Hannah Stephenson.

An initiative to counter the disconnect in society is bringing people together to chat about what matters to them, writes

It is hard to imagine now when strolling around Omey Island's sand-dunes and marshes that the island was once home to 397 people, writes Dan MacCarthy

Sydney Seaplanes, which has flown passengers including singer Ed Sheeran and Pippa Middleton and her husband James Matthews, said it was "deeply shocked" by the "tragic accident".

Latest: Micheál Martin has welcomed the appointment of Simon Coveney as Tánaiste.

Your home viewing entertainment wrap for the week ahead, with Des O’Driscoll.

Fast Forward by Judi Curtin

Tommy Lyons takes a look at the recent victory of Sizing John and the opportunities that lie ahead.

Cork poet Bernard O’Donoghue is on the shortlist for next week’s TS Eliot prize. He tells Colette Sheridan why, though he moved to the UK many years ago, his home area still has such a presence in his poetry.

More raptor deaths were logged during 2015 than in any year so far, writes Richard Collins

"How's the weather up there?" And repeat.

A charity worker has begun an epic bid to become the first swimmer in almost 90 years to cross a 13-mile stretch of sea between two coastal beauty spots off Ireland's north coast.

Irish football is mourning one of Cork’s favourite adopted sons, following the sad news of the death of Paul Bannon at the age of 59.

Colin Tizzard last night revealed Ladbrokes World Hurdle favourite Thistlecrack will aimed at the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup next year.

Darren Clarke might be a fearsome-looking figure on tour but the European Ryder Cup captain is a wise old owl in terms of developing new players.

Canadian writer Heather O’Neil is one of the overseas guests at this week’s Cork International Short Story Festival, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

A man killed by an escort is being investigated for links to the unsolved disappearances or murders of women nationwide, authorities said.

Kayser Soze, Kevin Spacey’s memorable villain in ‘The Usual Suspects’, delivered one of cinema’s greatest lines 20 years ago when he reasoned the devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist, writes Brendan O’Brien.

The way Darren Clarke celebrated winning the Open Championship neatly sums up one of the contradictions at the heart of Europe’s new Ryder Cup captain.

Ireland is required to identify and protect the most important sites for the hen harrier, but this is having a detrimental effect on many farm families, reports Ray Ryan

HEATHER was a female hen harrier, she was also the star of an online blogspot with around a quarter of a million followers.

Eoin Edwards talks to Peadar Ó Riada about the final of this week’s competition named in honour of his father

The Government behaved in an "underhand" way during the Cronygate controversy, Fine Gael’s chief whip has admitted.

The saga of the Taoiseach, the turbulent TD, his assistant/fiancee and her diamond ring is made for TV – except maybe it would be too far-fetched for a producer to consider, says Michael Clifford

The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The collection of images provide a rare pictorial insight into the passage of time and its impact on us all. Words by Susan Minot. Pictures by Nicholas Nixon. 

So many great quotes this week, but the best was from one of Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s handlers, who, while defending Kenny damned him with faint praise: he said the Taoiseach was busy, because he had a country to “help” run.

IT IS the little things that find you out, as Enda Kenny is now realising with his spectacularly botched attempt to promote someone we have never heard of to a nothing organisation.

He may never match the feats of his major-winning father Darren but Tyrone Clarke has dipped his toes into competitive golfing waters this year and yesterday strutted his stuff in the Pro-Am ahead of this week’s Northern Ireland Open Challenge at Galgorm Castle.

Animal rescue volunteers have appealed to the public not to buy exotic pets after they added two baby racoons to the scores of homeless creatures in their care.

The Menu has finally given up his relentless badgering of the UN for some class of international intervention on behalf of the wonderful Deise County to negotiate a return to the stove for his excellent friend Mighty Michael Quinn, formerly award-winning head chef of Waterford Castle for nigh on 20 years. 

IT’S JUST a 90-minute drive from Cork city to the Park Hotel Kenmare — the undisputed jewel in Kerry’s crown.