Yesterday evening, when we went to ‘our village’ in the Valley of the Great King on the island of La Gomera in the Canaries, we saw an owl in the first hour of darkness, and it was heartening to know that such things hadn’t changed.

Taghmon Guild member Mella Winters fought off stiff competition in Wexford Federation recently where she won the top prize for her simnel cake.

Declan Burke takes a look at some recent additions to the increasingly popular casebook of Scandinavian crime novels.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial told his girlfriend two weeks after the 18-year-old died outside the Burlington Hotel that he kicked him once in the chest when he was lying on the ground, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.