Conor Healy got a real blast of nostalgia one day when he was browsing through postcards at a shop in Youghal.

Unseemly ráméis has been coming from the grandstands of the Irish establishment about the limitations of new politics, writes Gerard Howlin.

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Kya deLongchamps takes a look at the work of the late, great Maureen O’Hara and John Ford’s fictional Inisfree — ‘another name for Heaven’. 

THE GRASS may be greener and the sea a brighter blue in the old John Hinde picture postcards of Slea Head, but nowadays the stone cottage in the foreground still looks much the same, except for the replaced thatch topping.

TIME was when the traditional Irish thatched cottage was associated with rural poverty. Then, there was a change in perception when photographer John Hinde — a man who always portrayed Ireland as a land of perpetual sunshine and blue skies — came along. His postcards featuring such cottages went all over the world.

AT TIMES it is forgotten that business is about people and in Ballynahinch this is very much the case. 

David Kronn is gradually donating his invaluable, acquired photographs to the IMMA, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

Work yesterday, as it so often does in this business, involved a lot of footwork.

YOU don’t often get to see the naked rear views of foreign visitors to Ireland in a PowerPoint slide during a presentation organised by a state-sponsored body.

Legal action has not diluted Anglo: The Musical’s fierce caricatures of the players in our economic crash, says Padraic Killeen

Clare County Council has come under fire after opting to spend up to €100,000 on an Environmental Impact Study to assess whether or not to demolish two 19th century protected homes.

FAILURE to demolish two protected 19th century buildings in Clare due to local opposition resulted in the council forfeiting €300,000 in funding from its roads budget.

FUTURE generations of Irish people may not have to go abroad for the sun, if predictions about climate changes in the 21st century are correct.

THE search is on for photographs that capture beauty spots around Ireland.

RTÉ broadcaster Pat Kenny and his wife Kathy claim they maintained part of disputed lands on Gorse Hill in Dalkey as a “nature reserve” for foxes and badgers and have a legal claim over it since 1991, which prevents any development of the lands, the High Court heard.

Donal Hickey on the future of the Shannon cruises

REMAKES of classic Irish landscape scenes as promoted by the postcard company John Hinde could see the new face of Ireland on postcards everywhere next year.

REPORTS of an exceptionally successful year for tourism have been reaffirmed by figures showing a 50% rise in bookings on one of the country’s most popular accommodation websites.

IT’S the time of year when many people explore the shoreline, cagily wet their toes in the incoming tide, more daringly breast the white-fringed waves, or simply stroll along our beaches.

Issues today’s electorate consider most important would have been the least of their worries a decade ago, writes Political Editor Harry McGee.

Beet Cottage outside Timoleague already under offer at €220,000.

TRADITIONAL or wha? Lupins, lazy beds and rambling roses - white wash and corrugated iron - it’s all too John Hinde. But isn’t it lovely? And it can be yours for E135,000 through Sherry FitzGerald Coghlan of Killarney.