At its launch in Cork’s Roundy Bar, writer William Wall said new literary journal, The Penny Dreadful, “could be the next Paris Review or ‘Granta’.”

Irish artist John Keating has won a gold medal for a painting exalting the Olympic spirit.

Tipperary artist John Keating has described as a “massive career boost” being selected to exhibit his work during the Olympic Games.

FARM advisory body Teagasc has further rationalised its Knowledge Transfer Directorate.

FEEL like getting it all off your chest in the exalted company of Ireland rugby coach Declan Kidney, athlete Sonia O’Sullivan or Cork hurling team manager Jimmy Barry Murphy — while raising up to €24,000 for charity?

SHARON “Lying Eyes” Collins has lost her appeal against her conviction for soliciting a man to kill her partner and his two sons.

ONE of the top awards in the cattle section at Cappamore Show in Co Limerick was kept in the county.

An appeal by a Co Clare woman against her conviction for soliciting a hit man to kill her partner and his two sons in 2006, opened at the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

NINE counties were represented among 20 qualifiers who lined up for the GVM All Ireland €2,500 commercial championship at last week’s Cappamore Show in Co Limerick.

IRELAND’S most advanced wave power company plans to raise up to €20 million next year towards the commercial development of a sea-driven turbine currently generating power off the west coast.

THE reputation of Cappamore Show as a shop window for quality cattle was underlined at this year’s event, when exhibitors came to the Co Limerick event from as far away as Donegal.

YOU need only stand on a beach to get a feeling of energy all around you — sun and wind on your face, the power of the waves, the ebb and flow of the tides. But, very little of that energy is being harnessed.

A witness in the trial of a Clare woman and a Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring to kill her partner and his two sons has said he felt intimidated and in shock when being interviewed by gardaí, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

THE organisation representing the country’s 11,000 rank-and-file gardaí will take the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) to the European Court of Human Rights if it continues to investigate members of the force for off-duty incidents where they haven’t broken any laws.

ONE kilometre off the Connemara coast, not far from Spiddal, a rather innocuous looking device is floating in the choppy waters.

An Irish artist whose work formed part of the multi-million euro revamp of Dublin’s Shelbourne hotel is now opening a major exhibition in the Italian capital of style.

WAVE energy could be producing electricity for the Irish market by 2009, following successful tests off the west coast.

THE garda killed in Sunday’s double road tragedy in Limerick risked his life in a high-speed chase during which a rock was smashed through his patrol car windscreen, it emerged yesterday.

I WRITE in response to the excellent coverage you gave to the letter written by Dr Seamus O’Reilly detailing the appalling state of our cancer care services in Cork (Irish Examiner, November 21).

CROSSHAVEN and Cobh Pirates are a step closer securing a place in the playoffs for a Heineken Munster Junior League First Division place, while Youghal, who lead the other section, face a late challenge from Nenagh Ormond and Skibbereen.

AS the roof goes on a 59-apartment development in the heart of Limerick city, the reason for its name comes to light.

A YOUNG couple were yesterday trying to come to terms with the tragic death of their three-year-old daughter.