THE busy South Cork guild at Innishannon got the past year off to an altruistic start with two whist card drives which raised proceeds for the Bandon Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber and Rehab.

IRISH cycling legend Stephen Roche was back in the saddle last night to power a projector at the launch of one of the country’s most exciting film festivals.

THERE is an old saying that a picture tells a story better than a thousand words, and it is true of James O’Mahoney’s harrowing illustration of the Great Famine.

The state funerals of ten IRA revolutionaries in Dublin are a Government trick to fool people that the British occupation of the north is ‘‘normal’’, a party conference heard today.