The owners of a garden centre in Co Cork are asking the public to be on the look-out for distinctive Christmas items stolen from their premises.

Kinsale Garden & Flower Club will present a Christmas demonstration by Sandra Jackson, AOIFA, on November 13 in St Multose Hall at 8pm. Visitors welcome.

It’S just getting better and better for Irish horticulture. Hot on the heels of the World Association of Floral Artists World Flower Show during the summer, last month Ireland played host to the International Garden Centre Congress.

The owner of one of the country’s top garden centres vowed last night to replace the 10 beautiful hanging baskets which were stolen from an historic bridge in Cork.

* Bandon Flower Club is holding its annual dinner and a flower arranging demonstration by Beverley Buttimer, in The Munster Arms Hotel, Bandon, on Monday Nov 18 at 7.30pm.

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A Limerick man who was given a suspended life sentence for killing his mother has had his sentence activated by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

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