American tourist Sandy O’Neill Barnes and her family ‘blindly’ drank Ireland’s best-known porters. Guess which one they preferred? asks Louise Roseingrave

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted that the rates for water charges — in the order of €240 a year or €60 a quarter — will be announced before the local elections.

Cork’s emergency services have been hailed as heroes after the rescue of a man who climbed over a pub balcony and fell almost 10m into the river Lee.