THANKS to a verse in a nonsense carol, the turtle dove is a celebrity at this time of year.

A blanket smoking ban introduced yesterday in all Mid-West public hospital campuses was met with the usual amount of puff, mixed with a little bit of huff.

WHAT have Maud Gonne, WB Yeats and the M3 motorway got in common? The answer lies deep within the hill of Tara, Ireland’s most revered archaeological site and the subject of a campaign to preserve this sacred place from the juggernaut of progress.