IF ever a picture captured the calm after a storm, it was the one posted online recently by Met Éireann’s Joanna Donnelly. 

A month ago today, Ophelia made landfall across Ireland. Kevin Markham investigates the aftermath for golf clubs and courses.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime event — we hope — Hurricane Ophelia, roaring across Ireland on October 16, and it wasn’t until five days later that we could enter our local woods with any degree of safety, writes Damien Enright

Fishermen dealing in crab, lobster, and shrimp have appealed for financial assistance. They claim their autumn and winter catch prospects have been devastated by Hurricane Ophelia.

Peter Dowdall on the devastating aftermath of Ophelia on our tree population.

Not a sight you'd see everyday.

In the wake of Storm Ophelia, on the Tuesday morning, we opened the curtains on a world of blinding sunlight, and opened the French windows on a world a-buzz with the sound of chainsaws, writes Damien Enright. 

"We are sleeping with our clothes on in the van at night and our daughter is frightened and very afraid and scared."

The owner of one of the country’s leading commercial tree nurseries has pleaded for state support for the sector after storm damage brought his business “to its knees”.

It seems to be official. ‘Banter is being phased out’, ran the headline on skysports.com this week.

CONGRATULATIONS to the organisers of this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz Festival; they have planned it for a weekend — October 27-30 — when the 10-day weather forecasts promise mere clouds and only a moderate risk of rain... the weather, then, as normal in our part of the world.

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The weather thrown at us by the latest ‘big storm’ may not have set records but the help of neighbours was still very heartening, writes Margaret Hickey.

Sorting out Cork people for ages...

Over 500,000 emergency alerts were seen by people since Sunday using an extreme weather alert service developed by a former council official.

A woman who delivered her baby at home in the midst of the chaos of Storm Ophelia is praying that electricity will be restored at her house in Crosshaven, Co Cork so that she can discharge herself from hospital.

After Ophelia, and especially after a Fianna Fáil ard fheis, don’t forget that the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opens in Beijing today. It may be more important.

It may not have looked it yesterday as people across West Cork surveyed the fallout from Hurricane Ophelia, but the area might have escaped the worst of the damage.

It was a one-day event, with lifelong consequences for the families of its three victims, and ongoing ramifications for households, schools, transport, businesses, the health service, forestry, and farming.

The scale of Ophelia’s devastation was particularly felt in Waterford, Tipperary, and Dundalk, where three people lost their lives as a result of the storm.

Winds reached extraordinary strengths during Storm Ophelia, with one gust recorded at the Fastnet Rock, off Co Cork, reaching a 191km/h.

There he is there outside Penneys on O’Connell Street.

READERS might wonder why Shakespeare would relate the pretty plant aconitum with ‘rash gunpowder’, as he does in Henry IV Part 2. 

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Shakespeare’s comedy is set in a retirement home, and uses some of the Abbey’s veteran actors, writes Alan O’Riordan.

He’s loath to admit it, but John Boorman’s new film may be his last, writes Don O’Mahony.

Dave Grohl's wife has given birth to their third child.

DAVID DUCHOVNY ON MR ROGERS AND ME

‘I KNOW you don’t like being pregnant, but do you really feel bad enough to commit suicide?”

An exhibition of Monroe memorabilia in Italy proves that the iconic actress was a modern-day Venus, says Daisy Goodwin

Bad things happen to bad people. In Oliver Stone’s films, the wicked pay heavily for their manifold sins and the Oscar-winning writer-director certainly doles out tough justice to the godforsaken characters in this serpentine and sexually-charged immorality tale co-written by Shane Salerno and Don Winslow.

A cleric asked to examine abuse allegations against a fellow priest suggested a teenage victim was to blame, a previously unpublished section of the Cloyne Report has revealed.

Kenneth Branagh said tonight it was “thrilling” to be honoured at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).

One of the twists Pan Pan has given Shakespeare’s classic is to let the audience choose who will play the lead each night, writes Colette Sheridan

Emma Watson wants to work on a Shakespeare adaptation.

Newly published this week

AH THE Bard of Avon.

And Furthermore

ANYONE who opens this book expecting to find a friendly giant is in for a disappointment. Big, physically and creatively, he may have been, but friendly might be pushing Roald Dahl beyond the limits of his personality.

BRITISH movie star Kate Winslet has separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage, their law firm has said.

Jean Simmons, the stunning beauty who sang with Marlon Brando in 'Guys and Dolls' and was Ophelia to Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, died today.