Three men have been rescued from the water in Clontarf in Dublin after they got into difficulty while swimming near Bull Island.

Kevin Markham on the statutes, structures, and settings which focuses a golfer’s mind and lasts long in the memory.

Donal Hickey takes a look at the new online software making Ireland’s wetlands and their wildlife easier to find.

The Irish Wildlife Trust has asked the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) to suspend the designation of the Killarney National Park as a world biosphere reserve.

Darren Clarke will take a step back from his hectic schedule as European Ryder Cup captain next week with a diary free of official business. Yet while on the face of it there will be some calm before the dramatic storm of the resumption of golfing rivalries with the US at the end of the month in Minnesota, it is doubtful the Irishman will be sleeping any easier.

I find it extraordinary that CACS (Campaign for Abolition of Cruel Sports) are “aghast” (Irish Examiner, Letters, April 8 ) that there have been no reported sightings of the Irish hare on Bull Island since June, 2014. 

HAVE you ever wondered what it might have been like when banquets were held in fairytale castles, and the mead flowed freely for ladies and lords of the manor? 

Plans have been lodged for a €200m expansion of Dublin Port.

BBC special correspondent Fergal Keane reflects on his Irish childhood in ‘The Gathering — Reflections on Ireland’.

The Hot Ticket: Derry

A READER emailed me to ask the best way to propagate buckthorn trees.

SOMEONE was missing at the University of Ulster’s winter graduation last November.

A healthy young man who had been following an unusual diet and taking salt supplements bought online suddenly collapsed and died, an inquest heard yesterday.

A charity walk is taking place in Dublin later today to remember an Irish man who walked 35 miles across the Antarctic to save the lives of two of his colleagues.

HE’S gone from breaking ball to breaking hearts and the keening and crying will be heard from Blarney to Bull Island.

NOT many radio presenters would get away with disturbing the sleep of one of the world’s best known rock stars but Bono was in forgiving form as Ryan Tubridy stepped into Gerry Ryan’s shoes for the first time yesterday.

LIMERICK’S Pat Murray yesterday relinquished his grip on the Golfsure Irish Amateur Close Championship when failing to come through the 36 hole qualifying rounds in glorious conditions at Royal Dublin.

COREY Pavin, the US Ryder Cup team captain, must be wondering what’s going on these days.

A controversial scheme to fill in 50 acres of Dublin Bay for a port expansion was rejected by planners today over environmental concerns.

A new 7km Dublin cycle path which the Government claims will be safer and mostly off-road has been given the green light, it emerged today.

Richard Collins says this durable tree deserves better recognition

DESPITE being one of Ireland’s smallest counties and overrun by people, Dublin is remarkably well endowed when it comes to wildlife.

DUBLIN is to get one of Europe’s longest seafront promenades under a plan to develop a walkway around almost the entire length of Dublin Bay.

ERIC Lisson is not in the least bit disingenuous when revealing he and his six-man crew expected to win this year’s BMW Round Ireland Race.

Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) has confirmed details of the main public transport initiatives throughout the country for European Car Free Day 2004.

THE small Roscommon village of Keadue has been named as the 2003 winner of the annual Tidy Towns competition.

(WITH apologies to Dana Rosemary Scallon, MEP – now sing along to the air of the one that made her famous).

DUBLIN Lord Mayor Dermot Lacey yesterday declared the northside beauty spot of Dollymount Strand a car-free zone to mark the 10th anniversary of the Earth Summit in Rio.

There aren’t many comedians that can sell out two nights running and keep an audience engaged for two hours in a one-man mammoth gig.