Picnics with cakes and butterflies — plus a hand-made, glorious red rug — Esther N McCarthy conjours quite a wishful weekend.

A man drinking and watching horse racing on television in a house with two others ended up being stabbed in the left eye with a broken pint glass or bottle until he passed out.

Limerick enjoy a four-point lead at the top of Allianz Football League Division 4 after emerging as slender 0-10 to 0-9 winners over Carlow this afternoon.

SLOW FOOD tours featuring the efforts of a variety of food producers ranging from a “sixth-generation miller” to a brand new goats cheese product from the Bilberry Goat Herd will be incorporated into the Waterford Harvest Festival next month.

THE first earthquake in the west of Ireland since records began occurred in north Clare earlier this week.

THE vast, almost bottomless and uncharted, internet can enrage and inform, entertain and educate, mislead and have a negative or positive influence, but even in this huge resource, the sites devoted to trying to find missing people are amongst the most poignant.

A STATE agency should be created to protect jobs to support the work of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, it was suggested yesterday.

Robert Allenby moved further into the lead after the third round of the Australian Open after taking a five-stroke lead at Moonah Links near Melbourne.

RESIDENTS opposed to the handling of a heritage railway track restoration project in Co Waterford have called for the company involved to address their concerns.

Kildare gardaí have appealed for help in trying to trace a 20-year-old man who has been missing since last Monday.

Gardaí in Kildare have appealed for help from the public in tracing a 20-year-old local man who has been missing since Monday.

LEYTON HEWITT was acclaimed by Greg Norman after his debut as caddie to the former world number one went like a dream.