Limerick City’s poetry competition wants to bring the funny five-line format home. Must it be vulgar? asks Jonathan deBurca Butler

A “calendar” of 121 musical events and torch-lit processions are to mark the 400th anniversary of a West Cork town’s charter.

Come home to Clon, the kettle’s on: that’s the motto of Clonakilty as it launches a programme of events commemorating its 400 years in existence — and invites emigrants back for a visit.

A PIECE of Ireland’s World War One history was re-written last night in Limerick when the Freedom of the City was restored posthumously to the Fourth Earl of Dunraven, who died in 1928.