With requests for exorcism on the rise, Louise Roseingrave looks back at an incident in Inchigeela, Co Cork, 30 years ago.

Some 32 Irish pubs spread across 15 counties, north and south, have secured listings in the 2016 Michelin Eating Out In Pubs Guide which has just been published.

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Lots of hardy annuals at Ireland’s biggest garden festival got a good watering yesterday.

Food bound for the bin was rescued from landfill and dished out in the form of free meals to almost 700 people yesterday.

A Glee-style California-based music troupe has left some good vibrations buzzing in the heart of West Cork.

Niall O’Farrell this week saw the business he founded in the mid-1980s, the formal suit hire firm Blacktie, fall into liquidation. The Dragons’ Den star will be hoping his investments on the show pay off soon, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A bride-to-be was faced with a big dilemma this Saturday — whether to say “I do” to her fiancé or to RTÉ’s Winning Streak gameshow.

A minimum 10-year jail term should be imposed on criminals involved in tiger kidnappings, Fianna Fáil has said.

IT IS very sad to hear so much criticism of nuns, priests and other religious.

Denise Hall gathers timely careers advice from recruitment and third level education experts

BUSINESSMAN Kieran Corcoran is living proof of the success of a new community-based medical response project which has been rolled out across Cork and Kerry.

A 17-year-old boy has been sent forward for trial to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court over a €20,000 cannabis seizure.

A 16-year-old boy who tried to intimidate a witness to stop her giving evidence against a man accused of vandalising her house, was given a five-month sentence by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court today.

A youth who obstructed gardaí and began screaming abuse when they tried to search him for drugs, has been detained for three months on his 29th criminal conviction.

An ambulance was called to the Dublin Children’s Court today to assist a 15-year-old boy who burst into a hysterical fit of tears begging the judge to sentence him.

A 17-year-old boy, who sped a stolen car at 160 kph and nearly caused several motor collisions, has escaped custody for a second time despite re-offending while on a suspended sentence.

A 17-year-old boy, who has pleaded not guilty to an attack where he allegedly tried to push a Garda off a third floor flat complex balcony, has been remanded on continuing bail by the Dublin Children’s Court.

THERE was keen early season competition in the various horse and cattle classes at Bandon Show last Sunday.

ABOUT 300 people, including President Mary McAleese, yesterday accorded a standing ovation to the man responsible for the success of the Cork International Choral Festival.

NEWMARKET Drama Group, which has won many acting, production and setting awards on the amateur drama circuit since being revived 12 years ago, has chosen John B Keane’s hilarious comedy Moll as its festival production this year.

RECYCLING waste is a big issue. Most people appreciate the depots available in towns and villages.

A CO Limerick bank has returned remarkable figures during a boom 2004. A baby boom year.

A FAMILY grieved the loss of a son for a second time within two years following a double road traffic fatality in Co Cork at the weekend.

The West Waterford Junior Boys Foursome team created history at Dungarvan last Tuesday by bringing the first All-Ireland team title to the club.

I WISH to enquire why Suzanne Harrington (Irish Examiner, March 25) found it appropriate to fire cheap potshots at Christianity’s most solemn feast-day, Good Friday, in her piece headlined ‘Now that’s what I call a Good Friday’ on that very day.

A FUND-RAISING campaign is underway in Tralee to come up with a reward for the return of a 20-month-old local child, who has been snatched by his Romanian father.

ITALIAN police searching for the 18-month-old son of a Kerry mother believe the child is still in the Naples area with his Romanian father.

MAHON POINT developers O’Callaghan Properties are the winners of the Esat BT Cork Company of the Year Award.

MET ÉIREANN has warned of severe wintry weather for much of the coming week, with significant falls of snow likely in addition to frost and ice.

THINK of the Summer Bay restaurant in the TV soap Home and Away, and give it an Irish twist and you get a picture of what might be at the Maryland Cafe, in West Cork’s turbulent beach Long Strand.