OVER 200 years after it was first laid out, Clonakilty’s Emmet Square is back with a bang, and historical resonances.

A Waterford-born businessman who has lived in Australia for the last 30 years has emerged as the successful buyer of Waterford Castle, paying over €6m for the luxury hotel, set on an island on the River Suir just below the city.

James McCartan admitted it is "time for a new voice" in Down after announcing his resignation as team manager after five years in charge.

FOLLOWING a weekend in which the city she represents was swamped with flood water, Housing Minister Jan O’Sullivan said the devastation — and what happens in the future — would have to be an “absolute priority for the Government”.

Heritage runs deep in Castlehaven.

Former GAA president Paddy Mac Flynn has passed away, it was announced today.

Feeling a bit warmer and a good bit wetter? That will be our weather then, according to a new study of long-term weather patterns published by Met Éireann yesterday.

Ireland is getting wetter and a little warmer.

Fianna Fáil TD Éamon Ó Cuív will be kicked out of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party if he does not stick to his promise to refrain from campaigning against the fiscal treaty, senior party sources indicated.

Once home to a ruin, this coastal Kilkern site has been transformed, writes Tommy Barker.

DOWN’S All-Ireland final banquet in the City West Hotel had the potential to be the toughest gig of Paddy Kielty’s lucrative career.

Fallout from the All Ireland senior hurling final between Kilkenny and Tipperary

Fallout from the All Ireland senior hurling final between Kilkenny and Tipperary continues.

THE best goods, in small packages: the motto comes to mind when it comes to No 4, Glebe Gardens, in a Clonakilty oasis setting.

YOU get ‘all the fruit’ thrown in, at Glebe House Gardens, an upmarket niche townhouse scheme behind the architectural timepiece Emmet Square, in West Cork’s Clonakilty.

Two men who died in a horrific car crash in Co Mayo were officially identified today.

TORRENTIAL rain at the Ploughing Championships left farmers worrying about the livestock back home, and fearing damage to precious late grazing which could play a vital role in staving off a winter feed crisis.

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THE recent decision by the management committee of the GAA to fast-track the opening of Croke Park to rugby and soccer games from February 2007 has hastened the arrival of semi-professionalism or pay-for-play in the GAA.

THE Fianna Fáil organisation in Galway West met last night in an attempt to find a compromise in the rift that led to last week’s selection convention being abandoned.

Two people have been killed following separate accidents on Ireland’s roads, gardai said today.

CLONAKILTY’S Glebe House, on the town’s landmark Emmet Square, has had its Easter Rising.

Two people who died in a car crash in Co Monaghan yesterday evening have been named.

Tommy Lyons' cubs roared fearlessly into the All-Ireland Under-21 final at Cavan, where their power and teamwork proved too hot for the outclassed defending champions.