Watching the Euros has got me thinking about French wines so once again this week I’m back in the Languedoc.

January is a month for learning new things and many off-licences are offering wine courses this month and early next month.

The only people that seem to be happy with Budget 2016 are the craft brewers. 

Greece is in all the news bulletins as I write this and I suspect most Irish people have sympathy for the difficulties this ancient democracy finds itself in these days. 

Long-term shift work has an ageing effect on the brain that leads to an impaired ability to think and remember, a study has found.

THE last week of November was Rhone Wine Week organised by the ever busy Simon and Emma Tyrrell of Tyrrell and Co. who import a range of wines from the region, including one that Simon himself makes called Les Deux Cols which featured here a few weeks ago.

Three Irish authors have been nominated for the largest literary prize in the world for a novel published in English.

Golfers from Germany and Scandinavia are the most likely to have taken an international golf holiday in the past 12 months, new research has found.

Leinster will be glad to hear that their Heineken Cup opponents Bourgoin have allowed Augusto Petrilli to join up with Argentina as one of just five overseas based players to make the flight to Buenos Aires for Saturday's international against South Africa.

National team coach Gerry Fitzpatrick has named a panel of 17 for Ireland's European Men's Basketball Championship games next month.