He already has a GAA stadium stand and roundabout named after him but one of Ireland’s greatest ever hurlers has now been immortalised in bronze.

FOR fiddle virtuoso Martin Hayes, every Masters of Tradition festival in Bantry, West Cork, is special, so how to celebrate its 10th anniversary?

President Mary McAleese has unveiled a statue of the late Dermot Earley in his hometown in Gortaganny in Roscommon today.

THE ashes of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt will be scattered today at a very special location in his adolescent life in the Limerick countryside.

LIMERICK is to honour the late award-winning author Frank McCourt with a bronze bust which will be unveiled in the city centre on May 13.

A STATUE of legendary playwright John B Keane, in his hometown Listowel, has been removed temporarily after it became unsteady during Christmas.

A HOST of Hollywood movie stars have been invited to Kilkee for the unveiling of a statue to celebrate the late actor, Richard Harris.