Surely all investment should be accompanied by a highly public cost benefit analysis before we commit, writes Fergus Finlay

 

When I was a child, my brother and I regularly came up from the country and stayed with a more ancient relative in Dublin over weekends. 

Esther N McCarthy is away with the fairies this week — and has picked up a few other bits along her way.

The first phase of a project aimed at turning a castle in Co Cork into a tourist attraction will commence early next year.

THE memories of Christmas may be fading, but that pudginess around the mid-riff is a lot harder to shake off.

A Tipperary invasion of Dublin is usually associated with sport but, next week, it’s food-related when some of the county’s top producers will be in the capital to showcase their wares.

An innovative programme aimed at expanding arts accessibility for young people takes place during November and December across south Tipperary and will include a workshop with chart-topping group Royseven.

ICONIC buildings across Ireland turned their lights off and prevented the release of an estimated 30 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere during Earth Hour.

GLOBAL bureaucrats need to take cognisance of the vital importance of the food industry to practically every country, Minister of State Martin Mansergh urged last night, when he addressed a gathering in Cahir Castle, which celebrated a wide range of food produced in Co Tipperary.

THE Munster Juvenile Fly fishing championship was hosted by the Cahir & District Trout Anglers’ Club on the River Suir.