THE RETURN of the Wine Geese tastings as part of The Gathering have been the highlight of the wine year and Cork has been particularly lucky as almost all the tastings have been in the real capital.

HAVE you ever wondered what it is actually like to own your own vineyard in France?

Nessa Robins has finally got round to putting her popular blog, Nessa’s Family Kitchen, onto the printed page in a new book, Apron Strings (New Island Cookery), a mixum-gatherum of recipes, household tips, party and picnic ideas and cockle-warming tales of family and friends and her efforts to feed ’em all. With this former nurse also furnishing a list of natural food-based home remedies, it’s the class of tome a body could wind up consulting from the crack of dawn to the dead of night. www.apronstrings.ie

A familiar echo from the families bereaved by suicide is that their loved one is not just a statistic but a human being.

SATURDAY

A legend lives on. He may be gone, but the unquenchable spirit of Páidí Ó Sé was everywhere during the annual football tournament that bears his name in his beloved West Kerry at the weekend.

A republic this may be, but there was a royal funeral in Ventry yesterday — footballing royalty but royalty nonetheless, the funeral of Rí an Ríocht, Páidí Ó Sé.

Amid emotional scenes, a hush descended on the crowd as the remains of Páidí Ó Sé were removed from his home to Ventry Church, scarcely 100 metres across the road.

Hundreds of people are attending the funeral of GAA star Paidi O Se in Co Kerry this afternoon.

Everyone has a “Páidí story” and they came yesterday as fast as the man himself ever ran around Croke Park.

He was a mortal after all.

Páidi Ó Sé, the former Kerry and all-Ireland footballer who died today, has been described as a true legend.

A new family is set to make its first appearance on ‘Fair City’ in the coming week.

THE overall winner of The Young Entrepreneur Programme Awards 2008 is Neasa FitzPatrick from Coláiste Na Sceilge, Caherciveen, Co Kerry.

FOR three seasons UL Aughinish have ruled Irish women’s basketball with an iron fist. For that reason they remain hot favourites tonight as their defence of the National Cup gets underway against Vienna Woods Glanmire at the ESB Arena.