I’M ABSOLUTELY thrilled to read about big plans to give the humble spud a makeover, a €1m boost to be precise. 

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Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork

TWO books by well-known Irish naturalists have come to hand. One celebrates a river and the landscape through which it flows; the other focuses on a peninsula in Co Donegal.

IF it’s August in Malmo, Sweden, or Copenhagen, Denmark, then it must be party time.