Two hospitality establishments given a makeover by John and Francis Brennan of RTÉ’s At Your Service programme open their doors this weekend with high hopes for the future.

Traffic is at a standstill in one of the country’s most popular tourist towns after a lorry lost control and hit a shop front.

A lack of financial advice and support is the biggest challenge facing food producers in growing their businesses, according to 70% of small to medium-sized producers.

From highly professional processional spectacles to downright paddywhackery, villages and towns throughout the country laid it on thick yesterday in honour of our national saint.

Catherine Fulvio, Mulranny, Co Mayo

PARENTS whose children attend a prestigious all-girls school are claiming over half the total Department of Education’s remote area grant scheme.

A JURY found a middle-aged Fermoy woman not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter in the case where the victim was found weeks later submerged in a slurry pit.

A jury returned a 10-2 majority verdict today against a middle-aged Fermoy woman of not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter in the case where the victim was found weeks later submerged in a slurry pit.

WEST Cork food producer Caherbeg Free Range Pork has just won a highly respected French award for its Rosscarbery Recipes White Pudding range.

AN Irish group has issued an urgent appeal for donations to help it bid for memorabilia associated with one of the great pioneers of polar exploration.

THE country is officially hooked on fish, according to the findings of a newly-published Bord Bia research study.

A PENSIONER and a predator have between them established what could be an Irish record.

IRELAND’S unsustainable “black hole” hotels which have littered the country for more than a decade will be killed off at the rate of one a week, Ireland’s leading food and accommodation critic has predicted.

The international crew of a fishing boat that sank off the south west coast of Ireland could not speak a common language, accident investigators said today.

ONE of the country’s best-known food and accommodation critics has panned the proliferation of “ugly and uninteresting” mid-range hotels springing up across the nation.

MOUNT JULIET, the popular golf and leisure resort, has been declared Best Hotel of the Year 2006 by a leading food and hospitality awards scheme.

Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who has been ill with prostate cancer for a number of years, celebrates his 80th birthday today.

Global warming is being credited with attracting exotic aquatic visitors to Ireland.