Tongue firmly in cheek, Pat Fitzpatrick presents his travel glossary. Read on for what those shiny brochures are really trying to tell you...

Sorting out Cork people for ages.

Heineken saw strong growth in its cider sales in Ireland during the first half of the year, something analysts view as more pressure for the Bulmers-owning C&C Group.

This Rugby World Cup bid, you know it’s going to happen, right? 

Celebrity guests have been the norm at Ballinacurra House. It’s no wonder it just picked up an award for Best Wedding Venue, writes Ailin Quinlan

CORK-based brewer Heineken Ireland is making steady progress towards meeting its sustainability goals such as protecting water resources and reducing CO2 emissions, as well as hosting health and safety initiatives and engaging with its local communities.

Heineken’s expansion into the cider market helped boost its Irish revenues and market share last year.

Heineken is likely to ask Vijay Mallya, who owes creditor banks more than $1bn , to step down from the board of United Breweries, India’s largest brewer.

Heineken and Carlsberg, the world’s third- and fourth- largest brewers, yesterday forecast higher profits this year as rising consumption in Vietnam and south-east Asia offsets weaker demand from Russia and Africa.

The head of Heineken in Ireland has said alcohol suppliers have a moral obligation to make it “uncool to be drunk”, adding that she does not “give a shit” if her stance gets her fired from the company.

Heineken Ireland and J Barter Travel held off competition from a strong field of finalists to land the prestigious Cork Business of the Year awards at the Cork Business Association’s annual gala dinner on Saturday.

ABDEL Haffid Bensaada is proof that interventions can bring people out of homelessness.

Munster boss Anthony Foley insists the province are determined to hang onto Ireland wing Simon Zebo and is hopeful a new deal can be reached in the coming weeks to head off Toulon interest.

UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon will have its first Irish pub outside Dublin open by the start of September, in Cork city centre.

Our menfolk weren’t cutting muster

European rugby chiefs could face a year-long wait to complete the five sponsorship deals for the new-look Champions Cup.

Four generations and 150 years on from the founding father of Heineken, the Dutch brewing family shows no signs of wanting to relinquish control.

Heineken has rebuffed a takeover approach from SABMiller.

The roar of 60,000 "possessed" hurling followers rolling onto your shoulders at ground level in Semple Stadium; Johnny Crowley sipping a pint of Heineken through a straw while waiting to have his broken nose attended to following the 1987 Munster final replay and Denis Mulcahy’s "bone-crunching" tackle on Colm Bonnar in 1992.

Nothing like a bit of fun messing with the locals, is there? Especially when they've gone and entered a talent competition.

The St Patrick’s Day parade in New York drew fewer television viewers in the US than the parade in Dublin had on RTÉ.

The Leinster team filed slowly on its arrival from the gates of the Sportsground along the back of the Clan Terrace and towards the sanctuary of the away dressing room when Brian O’Driscoll’s path was about to be blocked by a local fan.

What could best be described as a wave of molten outrage flowed down out of the northside of Cork last week with the news that the North Monastery primary school is to close.

A hidden talent search has been launched across Ireland with the aim of discovering one extraordinary person with the nation's most unusual talent.

The Courts Service may be about to call ‘last orders’ on court sittings being staged in a pub that caused headlines around the world this week.

Heineken, the world’s third- biggest brewer, said poor spring weather in Europe led to weak second-quarter revenue and predicted that earnings this year won’t grow as consumers in the region curb spending.

It wasn’t until very recently that I saw evidence of the Black and Tan drink up close.

Rival backers of multimillion- euro events centre projects in Cork have welcomed news that public investment may be available to help get the scheme off the ground.

A publican accused of threatening to return to Heineken’s headquarters in Cork with a shotgun in a commercial row over beer supply will spend the weekend in jail after he refused to give an undertaking to stay away from the premises.

A man screamed abuse at Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt before hurling a bottle at the start line of the men’s Olympic 100m final, a British court heard today.

Heineken, which has its Irish headquarters in Cork, said full-year profit will be stagnant as demand in western Europe stumbles, highlighting the Dutch brewer’s need to win the battle for full control of Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd (APB).

Heineken said economic woes were impacting sales across the UK and Western Europe after a weather-hit first half of the year.

Former Ireland and Munster flanker Alan Quinlan believes Anthony Foley has the credentials to be given a shot at the provincial coaching job.

As a rather distasteful war of words continues between former Australian international Tim Horan and the Irish management in the wake of Ireland’s 15-6 triumph over the Wallabies, his fellow countryman Matt Burke has been more magnanimous in defeat.

LIGHT winds and glorious blue skies have marked the first few days of Calves Week in Schull this year.

WITH little enough to keep us going at all these days, weeks like the one Rory McIlroy and Conor Niland gave us mean all the more. But even in better times, the life-affirming rallies known as Irish sporting bandwagons have been good to us.

IT used to be all too easy to chide Leinster for their dependence on the south Dublin hinterland — on and off the pitch — but Saturday’s win wasn’t just forged on the fields of Blackrock or Clongowes.

MORE pubs will close in the coming months as banks cut back on overdraft finance, forcing publicans to operate on a cash basis, Heineken Ireland managing director David Forde predicted yesterday.

HEINEKEN Cup-winning former Ulster stars Andy Ward and Jonathan Bell headed south yesterday to launch the 2010 Heineken Kinsale Sevens in the coastal Cork town last night.

OLIVER HAYES attended his camera club and had drinks afterwards while Anne Corcoran lay dead in his house, his murder trial heard.