Mary Arrigan selects her top 10 long reads for older children in search of a good book.

Viola player Simon O’Flynn is the second generation of O’Flynn musicians involved in orchestras in Cork, and his daughter makes it the third.

Broadcaster and lecturer Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin hopes to encourage the public to engage in debate on the referendum, writes Elaine Loughlin.

A vanity case belonging to the fiancee of Michael Collins is to go under the auction hammer next month.

Day Four. I started it with €110.51 in the kitty and a cunning plan. 

After 105 years in business, MacCarthy’s newsagents in Clonakilty closes on Christmas Eve, writes Noel Baker.

A 74-year-old painter bludgeoned his wife to death with a two-foot metal bar and inflicted a serious head injury on his son before causing his own death by drinking weed-killer, an inquest has heard.

Peter Dowdall on an exciting Cork-based innovation that has seen Voxpro enthusiastically open up some green space to be used by employees who might want grow their own food and ornamental plants

I adore homemade ice creams, sorbets and granitas, the latter is a granular version of a sorbet or water ice, so no cream and the ice is whisked while freezing or grated when frozen to produce a more granular texture.

John Coffey is hurling’s oldest living holder of an All-Ireland medal, having turned 99 in January. He played corner forward for Tipperary in the 1945 final win over Kilkenny, scoring the opening goal, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Chloë Sevigny takes Amanda Fortini on a tour of her native Connecticut, taking in her school and her teen hangouts. 

If Caitlyn Jenner can pick her new name as an adult, why not us ordinary mortals too, asks Nuala Woulfe

Gardaí have taken the unusual step of visiting homes in the Irishtown area of South Mayo to reassure shocked locals that no third party was involved in the horrific deaths of an elderly couple and the serious assault on their son last week.

Gardaí investigating the deaths of an elderly couple in Mayo have said they are keeping an “open mind” as to what happened.

Investigations are continuing into the deaths of an elderly couple in County Mayo.

On the 125th anniversary of the death of CS Parnell, Ryle Dwyer looks at the historical implications of the Church leading a heave against him.

It’s Swinford Railway Station on Friday, 31 July 1908. 

Clare Federation is always up for fun ways to promote Irish, so it’s no surprise that their summer meeting featured a free game of Bingo with numbers called ‘trí Ghaeilge’.

Now we’ve really seen it all.

The sudden death of a mother of three, following childbirth, had stunned a whole parish, a priest said yesterday.

THE title of Pat Talbot’s new play, A Great Arrangement, is a reference to what the director describes as “almost a fantasy” that Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan had. 

This new enthusiasm by the gardai seemed like a great idea... at first.

IN Sifting, Mike Mac Domhnaill’s striking first short story collection, the present is tattooed with the scars and marks of the past. 

I am a GIYer — I grow a lot of my own food — I don’t use chemicals because I don’t want to eat chemicals. Instead I make my own fertilisers from comfrey and nettles. 

On the 50th anniversary of the death of Piaras Beaslaí, Ryle Dwyer assesses how his biography of Michael Collins sparked a slew of rumours about the Big Fellow.

A former Limerick hurling legend yesterday told how his life changed irreparably, due to catastrophic injuries, when he was mowed down by a burglar during a high-speed chase with gardaí.

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Two best friends who share a unique connection to two survivors of the Lusitania disaster are set to play a key role in the centenary commemorations.

Declan Keegan recalls the tale of his grandmother, May Barrett, and her pal Kitty O’Donnell, who survived the sinking of Lusitania

Carey Mulligan’s role in a Hardy adaptation marks the latest step up the ladder for the talented actress, writes Susan Griffin

WHILE researching female rural stereotypes in Irish theatre, for her dissertation in theatre studies at London’s Goldsmith College, Áine Ryan decided to write her own character “to add to the canon”. This 22-year-old from Tipperary, speaking on the phone from her travels in Vietnam, devised a character and then a play.

They were best friends who set sail together from Queenstown, Co Cork, in 1911, hoping to build a new life in America.

Imagine not being able to say “I love you” this Valentine’s Day. That’s the experience of most people with motor neurone disease (MND), among them Emma Fitzpatrick, a mother-of-two from Kinsale, Co Cork.

IT’S A LONG way from the Arctic that Cormac James was reared. Born and raised in Ballincollig in Cork — when he was still Cormac McCarthy — Cormac James has lived in Montpellier in France for the past 12 years.

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For journeys long or short, there’s nothing like a book — long or short — to keep the peace and avoid the ‘are we there yet?’ moans.

Michael Feeney Callan

"If there was someone to apologise to in person, I would," Colin Brazier wrote in today's Guardian.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was visibly as he delivered a graveside oration for Longford/Westmeath TD Nicky McFadden yesterday.