IN the same way that Bordeaux is associated with fine wine, the name West Cork evokes the idea of wonderful food.

The hustings would be ‘like playing Galatasaray,’ reckoned Kerry TD Brendan Griffin. But the two leadership candidates addressed the fiery final meeting in Cork with low-key, measured addresses, writes Lise Hand

An image of an unfinished tattoo featuring writing ‘as Gaeilge’ is sparking debate on social media.

Tim Pat Coogan’s new book on Michael Collins’ hit-squad during the War of Independence is entitled The Twelve Apostles. In fact, members of the squad never referred to themselves in that way, says Ryle Dwyer

A famous Corkman’s love for a Kerry dog is just one aspect of a ‘dogumentary’ series on Ireland’s native breeds that airs this week.

MUSIC NEWS: Though there were all sorts of stories about Michael Jackson’s perilous finances through the years, the late prince of pop did listen to some of the right advice when he managed to amass the rights to songs by an impressive roster of artists. 

One of the young men in Michael Collins’ assassination and counter-intelligence unit has become a voice from the grave in a new animated film telling the story of being a 14-year-old soldier in the Easter Rising.

Some are household names, others have been overlooked but a move is on to honour, as a group, all those from the West Cork region who fought in Dublin during the Easter Rising.

A museum dedicated to the memory of Michael Collins and other revolutionary icons from West Cork will open in Clonakilty on Easter Saturday, March 26.

On the subject of protecting the Memory of Michael Collins I wholeheartedly agree with the comments by Michael Galvin (Irish Examiner, September 1) regarding the false assertions made by Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald at Beal na Bláth.

Michael Collins never lived in the Georgian house in the West Cork town of Clonakilty, which is being painstakingly restored as a museum dedicated to the life of Ireland’s best known freedom fighter.

In July we had our first opportunity to come to Ireland for four and a half days and spend three of them in County Cork. 

A few weeks ago I got talking to a manager of a county football team. His team had made good progress playing a fine attacking style of football but in recent games had come unstuck against extreme massed defences, writes Kieran Shannon.

Clonakilty, West Cork  €185,000

Gerry Adams got himself in hot water with journalists in the past week. 

A tiny rural museum run by relatives of General Michael Collins is one of two West Cork museums to win a major accolade from an international tourism organisation which puts them among the top 10 in the country.

Fine Gael’s 23-year dominance on Cork County Council is at an end, with the race on to see if Fianna Fáil will do a deal with Independents and/or Sinn Féin to gain the balance of power.

Hoarders of historical artifacts are asked to share their loot at an historic roadshow in Killarney this weekend.

Every year on this day Michael Collins’s grave in Glasnevin is inundated with cards and flowers from admirers, writes Nuala Woulfe

Re Áilín Quinlan’s article on the JFK/Collins connection: Rose Kennedy’s mother was Mary Josephine Hannan (1865-1964), daughter of Michael Hannan (1832-1900), from Lough Gur, and Mary Ann Fitzgerald (1832-1904), daughter of Edmund Fitzgerald (1798-1883) and Mary Linehan (d. 1833) of Bruff.

It's actually not as mad as it sounds.

I am appalled by the hysterical reaction of the Fine Gael members of Cork City Council to the Cork Rebel Week brochure.

Former justice minister Nora Owen has said she was “offended” by the description of her ancestor Michael Collins as a “langer” in the official Rebel Week programme.

It is the long-awaited fulfilment of a dream for many families and teachers in a West Cork town.

Recently, as the anniversary of Michael Collins’s death approached, a man decided to end his life in a fashion too horrific to detail here. The action was shocking but the outcome has become a commonplace in modern Ireland; suicide is now running at over 50% pre-crash levels.

John Creedon is to follow in the footsteps of Michael Collins in a new documentary, writes Dan Buckley

Two original photographs documenting Michael Collins’ final hours have been unearthed at a historical roadshow in Cork.

Enda Kenny’s partisan speech at Béal na mBláth missed the chance to appeal to a broad national consensus, writes Micheál Martin

Enda Kenny claims his administration has “retrieved and reinstated” the values of the founders of the Free State and put them at the heart of government policy.

History will be made on Sunday when the first incumbent Taoiseach gives the oration at the 90th anniversary commemoration of General Michael Collins’ death.

He was insistent on not wanting to take anything away from Meath’s victory but a few refereeing decisions still stuck in Kieran McGeeney’s craw.

I was listening to Nora Owen on RTÉ radio deprecating the making of money out of the sale of her grand-uncle, Michael Collins’s hair lock, at an auction recently.

A 1916 copy of the Proclamation was sold for €124,000 last night.

A lock of Michael Collins’ hair has been withdrawn from the market on the eve of its controversial auction.

Hollywood actor Martin Sheen has declared himself proud of his uncle’s IRA past.

Which former Minister for Justice ... I’ve started so I’ll finish ... is set to be Ireland’s newest quiz show host?

MARTIN McGUINNESS says he wants to use the presidency to launch a “decade of reconciliation” on the island.

A CHEMIST by training, a shovel engineer by vocation and a manager by desperation.”

MICHAEL COLLINS would have empathised with the bravery and courage of the late Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan who delivered the oration at the Béal na mBláth commemoration just months before his death, the founding president of the University of Limerick, Dr Edward Walsh, told attendees at this year’s ceremony in West Cork yesterday.

Knocknacurra on the upmarket Blackrock Road is twice its original size and stylishly refitted, says Tommy Barker.

BUILT to last — the genuine, solid build quality of Shanakiel’s Woodfield (called after the birthplace of Michael Collins) shines through, inside and out.