ONCE upon a time Ireland had a fine healthy population of working scarecrows.

Over 180 events were taking place all over the country today to celebrate National Trails Day 2010.

I’M SITTING with my back to a stone wall on Inis Meáin — on Ireland’s western seaboard — watching islander Padraic McDonagh hand threshing rye in the time honoured way.

HEAVY fog was a dampener, but it did not affect the final race in the Kevin O’Leary Nissan April League series at Kinsale YC and had no effect on the celebrations by the overall class winners.

TWO new boats made their debut in race two of the Frank Godsell March League at Kinsale YC and one of them, Dave Dwyer’s racing machine Mariner's Cove, a Corby 41 sent out plenty of shock waves.