THE COUNTRYSIDE has donned its mantle of green and you can scent the fragrances of early summer, especially the vivid yellow gorse that lights up the landscape in April. 

GOOD lawyers don’t look for popularity in the cases they take but even Kevin Feeney must have wondered how he got landed with one particular brief which looked like it could only put him in a lose-lose situation.

A potential world champion weightlifter will be sentenced for IRA membership next week at the Special Criminal Court.

Ballaghaderreen 1-15 Curry 1-7

Roscommon kingpins St. Brigid's qualified for their third successive AIB Connacht Club SFC final by defeating Salthill-Knocknacarra at Pearse Stadium.

THE chances of a small Co Cork village winning a prestigious European competition took a giant step closer last weekend when the head of an 11-man adjudicating panel said he and his colleagues were “very impressed” with what they saw.

REIGNING All-Ireland champions Cork and Tipperary will both enjoy home advantage for their opening provincial ties next season after the Munster Council finalised their 2011 fixture arrangements last night.

TWO men appeared at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin yesterday on charges arising out of a Garda investigation into the activities of dissident republicans.

Two men appeared at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today on charges arising out of an ongoing garda investigation into the activities of dissident republicans.

A man has today been charged following an assault in Dublin which has left a 27-year-old Polish man fighting for his life.

THEY have been hailed as perfect examples of how Ireland can survive and beat the recession.

A PILOT waste reduction project being carried out in a small village in Co Cork looks set to become a model for the rest of the country.

John Murphy

Sunday's Galway senior hurling semi-final between Gort and Athenry has been postponed after defeated quarter-finalists Loughrea made an appeal to the county board.