‘Buying local’ and supporting small enterprise has become second nature to Irish consumers over the past few years.

Ballybunion ended a 34-year national title drought yesterday when its all-teenage team lifted the Junior Cup on day two of the AIG All-Ireland Cups & Shields National Finals at Royal Tara Golf Club.

CANCEL all other engagements. It’s Culture Night 2013, and it’s countrywide. Tonight, art and culture centres and organisations will open their doors until late, for free access to collections, workshops and events. Open your senses to new experiences, sounds, and ideas, and enlarge your awareness of our rich heritage.

The misery, deprivations and loneliness of an Irish rural existence are brought to life in Jack Healy’s performance of Patrick Kavanagh’s epic poem, ‘The Great Hunger,’ directed by Ger Fitzgibbon.

THE story of Michael Collins is the theme of the Tralee Musical Society’s 25th anniversary production which opened last night and runs until this Sunday, in the Siamsa Tire Theatre.

A YOUNG Englishman will spend Christmas in Cork Prison after he was refused bail yesterday in a case where he is accused of carrying €70,000 worth of drugs through Cork Airport.

A young Polish man who sustained ten stab wounds in a weekend attack was described today as being in a critical condition as two teenagers who have been charged with assault appeared at Cork District Court.

Two teenagers have appeared in court following a knife attack in Cork.