Ballincollig Flower & Garden Club hosts AOIFA Vice Chairman, Orla McGrane, to demonstrate “Styles for Autumn”, on Monday, October 12, at 8pm in Oriel House Hotel, Ballincollig. Visitors and new members welcome, entry €5.00.

Would Michael Jackson have made Jar Jar Binks’ appearance in the Star Wars prequels more bearable? We’re guessing not.

A graveyard in Limerick has come up with a novel idea to sell plots — let members of the community secure a space via direct debit payments of €8 a week.

US president Barack Obama has said that he authorised the attempt to rescue hostage Luke Somers in Yemen because the US had information that the British-born photojournalist’s life was in imminent danger.

Lana Del Rey has hinted at getting up close and physical with men in the record industry. Nadine DeNinno speculates about who they might be

The planned €4.5m upgrading of an East Cork seaside town’s main drainage system has been renegotiated so the project won’t impact on the town’s peak tourist season.

Staff at Bausch + Lomb are facing average cuts of €6,000 to their basic pay under the cost-cutting plan announced by the company.

Obama has to stop lecturing Putin — it didn’t work in the past and won’t work now, writes Nina Khrushcheva.

Kanye West is making a movie with Brett Easton Ellis.

The University of Limerick is the only third-level Irish college short-listed for an international award for quality placement programmes.

Neil Lennon admits he is struggling to find sympathy for injury-riven AC Milan ahead of their Champions League clash at the San Siro tonight.

Four sulkies raced along a main road at sunrise near Limerick city yesterday in a dawn challenge for big money.

She stole the show from the Wu-Tang Clan and has signed for the Beasties and The Boss; now the internet can't get enough of sign language interpreter Holly Manniatty.

A fire broke out today on a Greek ferry carrying about 250 people in the eastern Aegean Sea, but authorities said no injuries were reported and that the blaze was contained.

Inter Milan have been fined €50,000 after a section of fans racially abused AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli during Sunday night’s Milan derby, the Lega Serie A have confirmed.

Swansea last night launched a scathing attack on Liverpool’s pursuit of midfielder Joe Allen.

Low-income farmers will be worst hit unless a meaningful Agri-environmental Options Scheme (AEOS) scheme is secured in 2012, the IFA has warned.

A Chinese envoy visiting Damascus has called on all sides in Syria to stop the violence.

In the midst of all our economic problems, the three-day visit of Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping to this country is much more than a welcome diversion.

President Michael D Higgins will be urged to take the unprecedented step of calling a referendum if the Government rules against a vote on the new European treaty.

Opposition leaders have united to demand a referendum on EU fiscal union even if the Attorney General rules it does not interfere with the constitution.

Despite the continuing slump in the housing market, competitively priced houses are still attracting buyers.

AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani yesterday said he expects to meet Manchester City officials on Thursday to discuss the possible transfer of Carlos Tevez.

Paris St Germain have announced they will not interfere with AC Milan’s plans to sign Manchester City forward Carlos Tevez in January.

Inter Milan have ruled themselves out of the running to sign Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez.

MAINTAINING farming’s existing funding levels and rectifying the sector’s age imbalance are two critical positions that must be supported by the imminent budget, warn farmer groups.

MAINTAINING farming’s existing funding levels and rectifying the sector’s age imbalance are two critical positions that must be supported by the imminent budget, warn farmer groups.

GREEK party leaders laboured yesterday to agree on a new prime minister, with the nation and the EU clamouring for a deal on a unity coalition to save the country’s finances and end the chaos threatening the euro.

The Vatican has today expressed its "surprise and disappointment" at some responses to the Cloyne Report into clerical sex abuse.

YOUNG farmers will be among the thousands of Irish people drawn to an Australian recruitment drive in Dublin this week.

AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has closed the door on Real Madrid midfielder Kaka returning to the San Siro outfit in the near future.

Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as president of FIFA after the Football Association’s attempt to block the vote ended in defeat and recriminations.

Sinn Féin vice-president Mary Lou McDonald has criticised the Government for excluding Sinn Féin from the consensus talks on the Budget.

LIVING costs for couples, ageing citizens and single parents are significantly higher in rural areas compared with urban locations, because of higher food and transport prices, according to a report.

Upmarket emporium Selfridges was today named best department store in the world.

GARDAÍ have begun refusing to use personal equipment such as mobile phones, laptops and GPS systems in protest over public sector pay cuts and the pension levy.

Nigeria’s parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa’s most populous nation in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.

DIVIDING public and private sector workers is merely a Government-inspired attempt to weaken the labour movement, was the key message from trade union leaders to tens of thousands partaking in ICTU’s National Day of Protest yesterday.

AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani is “100% certain” David Beckham will return to the San Siro outfit in the winter transfer market.

LISBON will do nothing for job creation as there is not a single mention of jobs in the treaty, Libertas leader and No campaigner Declan Ganley has said.

Queen’s University Belfast today agreed a controversial plan to cut more than 100 academic and research jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise.