We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

The poetry imprint’s founder has just opened a bookshop and literary centre in Ennistymon, Co Clare, says Colette Sheridan

COMMUTERS waiting at the bus stops around Cork and Dublin cities will soon be given updates, by-the-minute, on how soon they can expect to be picked up, thanks to new technology being rolled out by the local authorities and the Department of Transport.

THE executive chairman of Aer Arann Padraig O’Ceidigh said last night that he plans to double the size of the airline in the next four years and intends to employ an additional 50 to 60 new staff over the next nine months.

A young art student found dead five years ago in a burnt out caravan was murdered, cold case detectives revealed tonight.

IRISH society is having to face a growing litany of parents who murder their own children before deciding to escape this life by suicide themselves.

WORLD Heritage status for the Burren should be actively pursued within the lifetime of this Government, Environment Minister John Gormley told the conference on conservation farming in Ennistymon, Co Clare.

ALMOST €2 million is still owed to vocational school principals for running supervision and substitution schemes in their schools because of an inter-union row, a conference heard yesterday.

The Irish Wind Energy Association is calling on the Government to do more to promote the construction of wind farms in Ireland.

A middle-aged man died in hospital today after a car crash near Ennistymon, Co Clare.