IF you want something done, you ask a busy man, and Mike Cronin got a lot done this year.

RESIDENTS of a famed seaside village in Kerry are in “near-despair” after two decades of pleas for a proper sewerage system continue to fall on deaf ears.

A SECOND e-town in the Shannon Development region has been announced.

ONE of the last entries in the internet diary of extreme rock climber Michael Reardon simply sums up his feelings for the country: “I may live in California, but my thoughts are always in the place I feel most at home — Ireland.”