IF you thought Páirc Uí Chaoimh rocked to the ‘Boss’, Bruce Springsteen, two weeks ago, imagine what it was like 25 years ago this week (Tuesday, Jul 30), when the ‘King of Pop’, Michael Jackson, played two gigs there.

MOST regular domestic cooks would agree there are two types of meals. Unless cooking and food are up there on a par with, say, the continued good health of nearest and dearest or the meaning of life, the first is the vague stab at sustenance begrudgingly knocked out after yet another draining day at the coalface.

LOCATED on the edge of Castlemartyr village, Co Cork, on the site of a former Carmelite Monastery, Castlemartyr Resort incorporates a five-star hotel, spa and links-style golf course set in spacious grounds.

Ronnie Drew was buried today after a funeral ceremony that brought together many of Ireland’s finest musicians.

Hundreds of mourners have turned out for the funeral of traditional music legend Ronnie Drew near his home in Co Wicklow this morning.

TWO familiar faces will be missing from pews when the faithful in a stunned north Kerry parish gather for masses this weekend.

ON a sunny day when the spectre of violent death visited the tranquil farming countryside of north Kerry, signs of new life were, ironically, everywhere to be seen.