She’s swapped her elegant silk-and-chiffon gown for a pair of boxing gloves and the brutal sweat of the ring — but Rose of Tralee contestant Edel Buckley hasn’t looked back since her training began.

This is based on Marie Thérèse’s fist size which is very, very big.

I’M SITTING with my back to a stone wall on Inis Meáin — on Ireland’s western seaboard — watching islander Padraic McDonagh hand threshing rye in the time honoured way.

MYSTERY still surrounds the cause of a fire which claimed the lives of three members of a family in Castlemaine, Co Kerry, early on Sunday.