An Irish-led ‘currachs of the Caribbean’ project could help revitalise Haiti’s earthquake-decimated fishing industry.

Do take a look at the West Cork Garden Trail’s websiteas they are suggesting a number of interesting trip combinations for viewing of the various Gulf Stream gardens dotted all over the coast of West Cork. 

This year’s Blarney in Bloom Summer Garden Fair promises to be bigger and better than ever. 

Kilmacurragh’s gardeners champion native meadow and hedgerow in one of our most important repositories. Michèle Browne reports.

Quick Fit Car, in Little Island, Cork, has been crowned the best garage in Ireland, collecting the ‘independent workshop of the year 2015’ award at the Irish Auto Trade Association’s awards ceremony in the Citywest Hotel, Dublin.

Kearys is celebrating the launch of Kearys’ Motorworld, the new state-of-the-art Nissan dealership on the Carrigrohane Road, and formerly the premises of Windsor Motors.

Cork U21B HC final: With nine Cork SFC titles, the most recent in 2009, Clonakilty are seen as a footballing powerhouse.

* The award-winning garden of Gertie and Maurice O’Donoghue at Dromboy, Carrignavar, will open this Saturday and Sunday from 2pm to 6pm in aid of the Friends of Marymount.

ICOS represent 130 co-ops in Ireland, primarily in dairy, livestock and rural co-operative enterprise sectors.

Blackrock and Glen Rovers, two of hurling’s biggest club names in the country, will battle each other to avoid relegation from the senior grade if they lose their championship games tonight.

Independent Mick Wallace has been elected on the first count in Wexford.

FOUR members of a winning Lotto syndicate have won their Supreme Court appeal against a previous order that another man, who was in arrears on his contributions, is entitled to a one-fifth share of their €1.57 million prize.

A WEST Cork town will miss out on increased Government grant aid for farmers’ markets if a dispute between a local authority and food producers is not resolved.

IT will be Ladies’ Day in earnest both inside and outside the manicured rings of the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show at the RDS today.

The 140 boxes containing the votes for the Cork South West constituency were opened under the command of returning officer Jerome O’Sullivan at 9am.

Farmers across the country will begin casting their votes today to elect a new president of the main industry lobby group.

A TOP GAA official is warning that the growth in alcohol consumption and substance abuse amongst young people could have serious consequences for clubs and even for the games themselves.

THE chairman of the West Waterford GAA Board last night joined the increasingly large number of people who want the International Rules series scrapped.

CONTRACTS were signed yesterday for the construction of offices for the Department of Marine and Natural Resources in West Cork.

VINTNERS and gardaí are to join councillors in Clonakilty on a special committee to help combat public order offences in the West Cork town.

CLONAKILTY added a second gold medal to its haul of national tidy town awards in recent years, emerging yesterday as the outright regional winner in Cork and Kerry.

TEACHERS must take down barriers around schools to allow parents more involvement, an expert said yesterday.

LIMITING county panels to 24 (from next year) will only provide the GPA with “a stick to beat the GAA with,” warned Kilkenny Chairman Ned Quinn at the GAA Congress in the Great Southern Hotel.

A SENIOR GAA official has warned that Waterford cannot deliver on the huge expectation in the county unless they achieve a united camp.

THE man dubbed The House of Horrors killer took his own life yesterday without ever being convicted of the gruesome murders of three men.