From ceramics to cushions to candle holders and cattle captured on canvas, Esther N McCarthy has the low-down.

Change our habits and our children will follow suit

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Rugby brought Doug and Monique Howlett to Cork but it is friendship that kept them here. Now artist Monique is marking the end of their Irish journey with a beginning of her own, writes Marjorie Brennan.

On top of announcing 17 inaugural landmark scholarships for asylum seekers, the University of Limerick also held its first-ever citizenship ceremony.