Many’s the time most of us of a certain generation have been heard to utter the old country saying, “Well, that beats Banagher!” when shocked and awed by an unexpected development of one kind or another.

The worst-kept secret in Irish music has been confirmed with the announcement that Metallica are to headline Slane Castle on June 8 next year.

A body has been recovered from the River Boyne at Navan by rescue groups searching for a missing local man.

A dispute over a planned new Aldi supermarket in Laytown, Co Meath, has come before the High Court.

Three people were rescued from the estuary of the river Boyne at Mornington in Co Meath last night.

Ed Power spent the weekend at Ireland’s first Bowie Festival

Marie Toft enjoys an adventurous blast from the past in the historic surroundings of the Royal County.

Actor Pierce Brosnan has told how his wife glibly refers to his love scenes with some of the world’s most beautiful actresses as "legal cheating".

Inland Fisheries Ireland yesterday approved €230,000 for a number of projects aimed at enhancing some of the country’s top salmon habitats.

RECENTLY, I got to spend a few days in Turkey’s capital. I can quickly warm to a city like Ankara.

THIS year, the number of elvers swimming up UK rivers and waterways was 20 times the norm of recent decades. This is good news.

Truckers are in for a free ride next month as four motorway tolls are being lifted to get HGVs out of villages and off country roads.

The River Liffey has been something of an obsession in artist Fergal McCarthy’s work for the last few years.

An ancient log boat, possibly thousands of years old, has been discovered partly embedded in the banks of the Boyne river in Drogheda, possibly where it originally sank and indicating that Drogheda could have other hidden treasures.

Results, teams and scorers from this afternoon's league action.

A new tourism route through the Boyne Valley has been launched to draw “culturally curious” visitors into the area.

The 2012 salmon season on the Blackwater continued to produce springers last week.

The 2012 salmon season on the Blackwater continued to produce springers last week.

A scene from the very successful Mallow Homes and Garden Show, which has now become a premier show-garden event, featuring permanent displays, free seminars, and rare plant sales.

A MAN out shopping during the sales got more than he bargained for when he braved an icy river to save a man’s life — while as many as 200 people stood back and looked on.

THE solstice is a time to take stock and make new resolutions.

Shannon have started the new Ulster Bank League season with a marginal win over Dolphin today.

WE have had the Queen and the president, now it is time for the Kings.

ROCK concerts at Slane Castle — which has attracted international icons such as U2, the Rolling Stones and this year it will host Kings of Leon — would be “seriously threatened” if the bypass of Slane is built to the west of the village.

REVOLUTIONS start innocuously: a small spark, a quiet shift in opinion, a slow realisation that an establishment has reached its final days.

The bad weather is continuing to cause considerable disruption to public transport.

ANGLERS are being asked to take part in a project which aims to piece together the life story of the fascinating sea trout, a fish about which not that much is known.

I REFER to the two astonishing and disturbing letters (May 29) written by Aidan Barry of the South Western Fisheries Board and John O’Donoghue TD concerning the proposed reintroduction of commercial fishing in Castlemaine Harbour, Co Kerry.

The ancient Bru na Boinne site around Newgrange may lose its World Heritage status if the proposed M2 motorway goes ahead, it was claimed today.

Gardaí said there were no major incidents or injuries reported at Slane Castle yesterday as Oasis rocked the night with 80,000 ecstatic fans.

MUSIC fans at this weekend’s Slane concert were urged to avoid a repeat of tragedies that marred the last Oasis concert at the castle.

Music fans at this weekend’s Slane concert were today urged to avoid a repeat of tragedies that marred the last time Oasis played at the castle.

IT could be you! If you bought a quick pick lottery ticket in Drogheda on Wednesday afternoon and left it behind you on the counter, you could be €350,000 better off and not know it.

Dubliners will be asked tomorrow to help draw up a plan to keep the city’s waterways clean.

Three men arrested after a woman was raped during a vicious gang attack were today released from garda custody.

A woman was raped during a vicious gang attack on two young couples today at a popular lovers lane in the grounds of a stately home.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen last praised Ian Paisley for “showing great leadership and immense vision” in helping to bring about the historic agreement of 2007.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has refused to say whether his department was requested by a state tribunal to hand over files relating to a land deal involving an associate of Bertie Ahern.

BERTIE AHERN’S final battlefield as taoiseach was one symbolising hope born from war as this soldier of political destiny bowed out still undefeated in electoral combat.

Bertie Ahern deserves to be the next President of Ireland, Ian Paisley declared today.