Dr Sarah Landers says smoking is the single biggest cause of disease and death in Ireland.

Peter Dowdall visits Lismore Castle and meets Darren Topps, to hear about his vision for the historic garden.

Kya deLongchamps investigates the history of ‘insufflating’ and describes the manners and paraphernalia attached to the taking of ground tobacco.

Sometimes you don’t need to travel for the perfect getaway. Karen Funnell enjoyed a rare night away at the Castlemartyr Resort, just 20 minutes from the city.

A centre which has played a significant role in scientific, religious, learning, and economic life through the ages is set to celebrate 25 years of Heritage Town status.

THE inherited love that Irish people have for the humble spud is growing again after a brief cooling off in the 430-year relationship.

Kya deLongchamps loses her head and much of her heart in the accrued history, and charm of Rathcoursey.

Trish Dromey says this period property in north-east Cork was carefully modernised and now scores a C1 BER.

Tourism in East Cork received a boost yesterday when Michael Ring, the junior tourism minister, advocated Youghal as a likely “capital of the Ancient East”.

Tivoli’s Cahernane is set where Cork’s monied classes colonised a sunny hillside, writes Tommy Barker.

Political pronouncements and media reports about the safety of the bathing waters at Youghal’s iconic front strand have done a disservice to the famed east Cork town that has replaced industry with tourism.

An east Cork town hopes to reverse a long-term commercial decline on two of its main thoroughfares by transforming the area into an arts quarter.

THE route is all left turns, easily followed from the map. As we proceed north, and then west, we have views of the forested slopes of the Ballyhoura Range, Caroline Mountain, Knockduv, Carron and Seefin.

Archaeologists working on a church in Cork have discovered three burial vaults dating back to the 1600s, pottery, and coins from that period and a 300-year-old underground central heating system copied from the Romans.

Fiann Ó Nualláin is on a campaign to reassert the high nutritional value of one of the world’s top five super foods — the humble potato.

Gerald Killingworth

War reporter Tim Butcher and Irish nomad Manchán Magan are among those telling their tales at the Immrama festival in Lismore, writes Orlagh Ní Arrachtáin

Franchini’s,

Patrick Cooney spent a decade “dropping in and out” of the lives of four members of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy for his documentary, The Raj in the Rain, which will be screened on Sunday during the Kinsale Arts Festival.

Regarding your article ‘Detected blight strain linked to Great Famine’, I ask ‘what we are to do with this information’?

Two historic Cork towns have ‘app-ed’ their game to help visitors.

I wish to comment on Dan Buckley’s article on the Irish Examiner today, in relation to Kathleen Peddicord’s writing on a Washington-based magazine stating that Youghal ranks number three in the five chosen retirement destinations for American people.

The crypt and church of an East Cork town, with links to Walter Raleigh and Oliver Cromwell, is the focal point this weekend for the 10th annual Youghal Celebrates History conference.

The Bell Tower Restaurant, Castlemartyr Resort,

Despite its fatal role in the Famine, our love for the ‘humble spud’ continues, says Louise Roseingrave

One of the most substantial land sales in north Cork this year is due up for auction some time in October, after a preliminary launch a month ago.

BAILE na nGall means the foreigners’ town, referring to a 9th century Viking settlement at Smerwick, a Norse name meaning the butter harbour.

Seen nationwide on RTÉ earlier this month when it hosted an episode of Franc’s DIY Brides, the Walter Raleigh Hotel in Youghal is now looking for a new partnership itself.

It’s a “shop local” drive with a difference. Bridegrooms can win a free wedding by sourcing all their flowers, cars, dresses, suits and so on in one town.

A VALUABLE painting stolen from an historic Irish home in the 1980s may finally be returned to Ireland after a protracted legal row over its ownership comes to a head this week.

Siobhan Cronin discovers some historic gems on the town’s back streets

Tommy Barker says refurbished property retains original features.

Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the monarch in ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age’ (Universal, €24.99), and again picks up an Oscar nomination.

IT is appropriate that the national potato conference and trade show should be held in Dublin today, St Valentine’s Day, because the Irish people have had a love affair with the humble spud for hundreds of years.

Who else but the wonderful Blanchett to play – not for the first time – Queen Elizabeth ll?

Cate Blanchett gave a regal performance on the red carpet tonight at the premiere of her new film about Queen Elizabeth I.

Hollywood star Cate Blanchett is to attend the premiere of hotly-anticipated new film 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' in London's Leicester Square.

GUESTS at the opulent Capella hotel in Castlemartyr can avail of any service they desire once it’s legal and moral, president and chief executive Horst Schulze pledged yesterday at the opening of the €80 million resort.

MUCKRIDGE House is a landmark Youghal period residence that, as well as carrying a heritage listing, comes with a 100-acre farm on the outskirts of the ancient town.

THE siting was obvious - what better place to guard the access point to Great Island than at its narrowest point to mainland county Cork?

WE’VE just planted a few drills of potatoes in our garden. Four different types Orla, Pink Fir Apple, Sharpes Express and Ratte — not too many of any variety but a selection of old-fashioned varieties to tantalise the taste buds right through from early June into the following year.