A PLAN to scatter some of Frank McCourt’s ashes near the ruins of Carrigogunnell Castle outside Limerick yesterday had to be postponed as his widow, Ellen, had to return to New York to resume her treatment for breast cancer.

THE ashes of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt will be scattered today at a very special location in his adolescent life in the Limerick countryside.

MIKE O’DONNELL believes his Angela’s Ashes walking tour of Limerick is a good barometer of the state of the tourism industry around the country.