THE GROWING trend for cooking at home is celebrated in a new cookbook written by south-east chef Anne Neary.

STAFF who raised concerns about the ill-treatment of patients at a private nursing home — which has since lost its licence — were constructively dismissed, trade union SIPTU has claimed.

Three people, including a teenage boy, have been killed in separate road accidents in the space of 24 hours.

A RECORD 208,000 people attended the three-day National Ploughing Championships which were held in glorious weather conditions at Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny.

IT WAS rural Ireland’s version of Sunset Boulevard at “The Ploughing” in Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny, as an estimated 83,000 people flocked to the annual pageant of country life.

A €1 BILLION boost is on the way for the country’s farmers, Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith announced at the National Ploughing Championships in Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny.

THE possibility of using crops for fuel is one of the most exciting developments of recent years.

A TILLAGE farmer eavesdropping on some of the talk among the women at the National Ploughing Championships in Farmley, Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny, would have been initially delighted. For some of the chat in the tented town referred to fine crops, good cuts and even extensions.

GROWING calls for an extension to the Farm Waste Management Scheme (FWMS) deadline beyond December 31 will be raised by Fine Gael in the Dáil today.

Up to 150,000 people are expected to attend the annual Ploughing Championships in Co Kilkenny in the next three days.

PRIESTS and politicians will move from their usual pulpits and podiums to a rural site beside the ploughing plots of Kilkenny over the next three days.

THE arrival of Indian summer weather has boosted preparations for the 77th national ploughing championships which Tánaiste Mary Coughlan will officially open at Farmley, Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny, at noon tomorrow.

KILKENNY are odds on for another All-Ireland success in two weeks — with the national ploughing championships due to be held at Farmley, Cuffesgrange, over three days.

TWO competitors from the same Co Wexford club are representing Ireland in the world ploughing contest in Grafenegg, near Vienna.

THE death last weekend of Sean Healy, the first general secretary of what is now the 86,000-member Irish Farmers Association, was noted with great regret by thousands of farmers countrywide.

EIGHT years after Stephen Byrne drove the car containing his two sons and himself off Duncannon pier, three years after Sharon Grace drowned herself and her two daughters on a lonely stretch of Wexford coastline, and one year after the Dunne family were found dead in their house in Monageer, last weekend’s events in Clonroche have once again stunned the south-east.

A RECORD number of 200 enquiries for exhibition space at this year’s National Ploughing Championships in Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny (September 23-25) was reported yesterday.

THE Irish presence is very strong in the US security field — as we are reminded by the recent story that US Central Command chief (covering the Middle East), Adm William J Fallon, is resigning and the acting chief will be Army Lt-Gen Martin Dempsey.

A RECORD 166,000 people attended the three-day national ploughing championships at Annaharvey, Tullamore, Co Offaly, the managing director of the National Ploughing Association (NPA) disclosed last night.

NEXT month’s National Ploughing Championships will stage Ireland’s only full livestock exhibition in 2007, after Sunday’s Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show was cancelled due to floods.

Next year's National Ploughing Championships are to be held in Farmley, Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny.

One man is in a critical condition and two other people have also been hospitalised following a crash in Kilkenny today.

THERE’S a crisis in the education sector. National schools await funding which is not forthcoming.

THE New Year has begun like a breath of fresh air for David Bathe, after he was yesterday named overall winner of the 2002 Nicorette Quit Award.