“THIS festival has been a beacon in the traditional music calendar,” said traditional fiddler Paddy Glackin on Monday night at the last Frankie Kennedy Winter School in Donegal.

A young mother today described how she nursed her sick child while marooned in her snowbound home for almost three weeks.

MORE than 70 nurse managers are to develop standards of nursing care based on best international practice in a bid to improve private nursing home care.

Seven new documentaries exploring Ireland’s arts and culture were today granted almost a quarter of a million euro to begin filming.