Swimming with a creature that might consider you a nice snack is not to everyone’s taste but it’s just a day at the office for James Hennessy, who runs the Reptile Village Zoo in Kilkenny.

As a way of learning to swim, diving head-first into water has its merits. But when there are two hungry alligators awaiting your arrival, it could well have a downside.

Ballyhea can approach their Premier IHC quarter-final with Ballinhassig in confident mood after eliminating Kilbrittain at Coachford on Saturday.

The right to compensation when an airline cancels a flight could be changed as a result of Dubliner Denise McDonagh’s case against Ryanair, which she has taken to the European Court of Justice.

SNAKES alive...an exotic animals expert has called for new legislation to control their import after several venomous snakes were abandoned.