IT’S no easy task being in charge of the kitchens on the world’s second largest luxury liner that produces more than 100,000 main courses a week.

AT the centre of Irish politics for over three decades, veteran politician Máirín Quill was honoured with a civic reception last night ahead of her retirement from public life.

THE resignation of Father Maurice Dillane, 73, as a curate in Co Galway after fathering a child has again put the Catholic Church in the public spotlight.