Paula Hynes swapped her farm and family in Cork to spend almost three weeks with the Maasai in Kenya for a show on RTÉ tonight, writes Helen O’Callaghan

Andrea O’Mahony, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis just before her 23rd birthday, is urging anyone with any form of MS to engage in a landmark study that could potentially unlock the mystery of the genetic and lifestyle factors behind the disease.

The owner of one of the country’s leading commercial tree nurseries has pleaded for state support for the sector after storm damage brought his business “to its knees”.

Well-built Well Road home has the space and finish to give it wide appeal, writes Tommy Barker

Legal colleagues and the sporting community in West Cork have paid tributes to the late PJ O’Driscoll, a West Cork-based solicitor who died suddenly on Sunday.

A businessman who owns five supermarkets, including the biggest SuperValu in the country, is to invest nearly €9m upgrading four of them.

‘Quartermaster’ for international drug gang had €380,000 in cash distributed around his house

Richard Manning gives the Irish Examiner  a look around his Baby Austin.

Retailers are calling on the Government to roll out a major information campaign before sounding the death knell of 1c and 2c coins in order to reassure consumers they are not being ripped off.

The several dozen houses out at Bridevalley, in Cork’s Aherla, are big, wide builds, and when it comes to No 29, it has extras on the side, and on top.

Three-bedroomed Coachford bungalow of 1,740 sq ft has sunroom and price of €260,000, says Tommy Barker.

Hundreds of trees will be planted in one of Cork’s largest parks as part of a €50,000 landscaping scheme.

Sq m: Sq m 80 (860 sq ft)

Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 1

THE AFTERMATH

A tasty makeover has been applied to the interiors of Hemel, an upgraded country cottage a quarter of an hour’s drive from Cork City at Kilbonane, near Aherla.

TREES: As we enter National Tree Week please consider a tree for your garden — even a large specimen if you don’t have the years to see a small one grow tall and stately.!

GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to an accident which claimed the life of a prison officer in Cork city.

AN investigation was launched in Kinsale, Co Cork, after a truck driver was crushed to death while handling newly-harvested grain yesterday.

THE fact that this potential hobby farm at Rearour, Aherla, Co Cork, is close to a major employment node at Brinny could help its chances of selling

CHUNKS of land like this 56-acre block at Aherla More, Aherla, Co Cork, don’t come up for sale very often.

DAPHNE Pochin Mould is a remarkable name for a remarkable woman.

IT’S a blueprint for self-help economics that could yet be replicated in many different communities around the country.

A YOUNG student nurse who was on her way to work was killed close to her home yesterday morning in a head-on collision with a cement truck.

AN estimated €100 million worth of houses are being proposed for Carrigtwohill, which is set to become a major commuter town when the Cork-Midleton railway reopens at the end of next year.

ON a day at Killarney Races when temperatures were in the early twenties and ices and soft drinks were in huge demand, children took over from their parents in the fashion stakes.