Hibernian Antique Fairs are in Birr, Co Offaly from 11 am to 6 pm tomorrow. 

A well-known Midlands pub has offered a €1,000 reward to anyone who can help catch a pickpocket who allegedly stole an elderly patron’s wallet.

A hound for knowledge, The Menu is never done learning and always on the lookout for new culinary educational opportunities.

Henry de Bromhead’s Aupcharlie got back on track at Clonmel yesterday when landing the Suir Valley Chase.

Gardaí investigating the theft of a trailer stumbled upon the most southerly diesel laundering plant in the country, which was capable of annually producing 10m litres and defrauding the State of €5m.

The number of accidents and significant incidents involving Irish-registered commercial aircraft reached their highest levels in many years in 2012.

If you happen to look skywards and spy a nun speeding towards the ground, don’t be alarmed — it’s only Sister Patricia bringing manna from heaven.

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to the editor of the Sunday Independent, Aengus Fanning, who has died following a battle with cancer.

The son of an independent councillor and another man have been arrested on suspicion of computer hacking which crashed the Fine Gael website.

Two young men were killed in car crash by a motorist who drove “like a bat out of hell” on the wrong side of the road after having six bottles and five cans of beer at home followed by seven pints, two vodkas, three shots and a line of cocaine in a pub.

FARMERS were urged by Minister of State Ciarán Cuffe yesterday to seize the opportunities that exist in the organic sector.

SCANDAL-HIT agency Fás paid twice as much for a new head office than a property consultant’s value, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) revealed today.

KILLARNEY is one of a number of areas chosen to highlight the different possibilities for the handover of Catholic schools for primary education with a different type of religious ethos.

A TRIP to Cork Airport by two couples heading off on holidays ended in tragedy when two men died and two women were injured in a collision.

Spring ended in style with parts of the country basking in the highest May temperatures for up to 11 years, it was revealed today.

GARDA sources yesterday confirmed that the huge haul of methamphetamine seized this week was in powder form and not the highly addictive crystal methamphetamine.

GARDAÍ and customs have made the biggest seizure of methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant drug, in an international operation targeting eastern European trafficking gangs.

Detectives were today questioning a man after cocaine and cannabis worth half a million euro was seized during an investigation into eastern European drugs gangs.

Many of the claimants — who were watched by spectators, such was the novelty and the excitement — seemed a lot younger than 70 and there was concern also about the massive queues in some places.

THE overall winner of the JFC Innovation Award for Rural Business is Ralph Haslam of Mossfield Organic Farm, Co Offaly.

Predictions of an Indian summer did not quite come to pass last month as forecasters revealed today that September was cooler than normal.

CORK will be ringing to the sweet harmony of barbershop singing during a major international competition next month.

THE highest temperature in 30 years was recorded in the sun-soaked summer of 2006 according to weather records released for the past year.

UNION members at State training agency FÁS called off industrial action last night after voting to accept proposals aimed at ending their dispute over decentralisation.

SENIOR trade union officials have drawn up battle plans in the FÁS decentralisation dispute that could impact the Government’s entire €1 billion public sector relocation programme.

A NATIONAL action plan for farming will be launched shortly by the Government, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced yesterday.

IRELAND is shivering in the coldest temperatures for a decade.

Fine Gael's Education spokeswoman Olwyn Enright has married party colleague Senator Joe McHugh today.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) served two Enforcement Orders in February 2005.

ON the night before the 1992 general election, a group of us working on the campaign arranged to travel down to Longford where the then Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds, was holding his traditional eve-of-poll event.

Up to 50,000 people from around Ireland are expected to attend this year's national country fair, in Birr, Co Offaly.

Tánaiste Mary Harney T.D. has officially opened Birr Technology Centre, a 21,000 sq ft (1,950 sq m) fully-serviced technology building developed on the site of a derelict mill on the banks of the River Camcor, in the heart of Birr, Co Offaly.