A section of the M8 motorway will be closed next month to enhance drainage works amid concern that climate change could make the main Cork-Dublin road unsafe.

Two hill walkers have been rescued after spending the night stranded in the Galtee mountains in County Tipperary.

Coillte has begun a massive tree-felling operation in a bid to prevent the spread of a fungal disease through a scenic forest park.

I am aghast at the notion that Eirgrid would even consider the route through scenic Lismore, Co Waterford as an option to upgrade the electricity grid for Ireland.

GLENSTAL ABBEY WALK, CO LIMERICK

Dan MacCarthy meets a couple who have added to their farm income by embracing agri-tourism

PARENTS will still be unsure on Sunday if schools can open next week unless the Government takes urgent action to make roads safe, a teachers’ leader has warned.

A GROUP of 12 hill walkers are lucky to be alive following a dramatic rescue on the Galtee mountains in Tipperary.

A MAJOR music festival and a 36-hour, non-stop endurance race are to take place on the Cork/Limerick border over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

A FAMILY of four were found safe and well late on Sunday night after becoming lost while hiking on the Galtee mountains in Tipperary.

Eight celebrities have swapped their glamorous lifestyles for the raw passion of a GAA training ground.

FOR 28 years Monica O’Brien worked with the Galtee Meats plant in Mitchelstown, first as an office employee and in recent times as a pig supplier with husband Rory O’Brien.

ENTERPRISE Ireland has said it was a major disappointment that Dairygold did not proceed with a large-scale added-value project at Mitchelstown, Co Cork.

THE owners of the former Galtee meat plant were last night holding crisis meetings with 170 workers to try to avert disruptive strike action, due to begin this morning.

A PUBLIC meeting will be held in Mitchelstown tonight in a bid to save the former Galtee meats plant from closure with the loss of 70 jobs.

Yesterday’s planned industrial action at Breeo Foods in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, was averted after both sides agreed to take the matter to the Labour Relations Commission.

IFA pigs committee chairman Michael Maguire yesterday called on Dairygold to honour its commitment to Irish pig producers by using locally sourced pig meat.

Snow fell on many parts of the country today as a late winter chill began to bite.

SOLD as an organic holding in the early months of 2004, this 190-acre Tipperary farm, which was run by organic entrepreneur, Josef Finke, is back up for sale.

Dairygold is to undertake a €9 million capital investment at its Galtee plant in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, to expand production and improve efficiency.

Fears were growing today for hundreds of jobs at a Northern Ireland meat processing company as management began consulting its staff about their future today.

A mother-of-three who was lost up a mountain for 18 hours says she survived on a Mars bar, water and prayers to the Sacred Heart.

DAIRYGOLD has confirmed that it has already paid out 25% of the annualised goodwill rebate, (11 months ahead of schedule).

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is to meet a high powered Irish Farmers’ Association delegation in West Cork this afternoon to discuss the impact of Dairygold’s decision to opt out of primary pig processing.

MORE than 1,000 people marched through Mitchelstown, Co Cork, yesterday in protest at the decision of Dairygold Co-op to end pig slaughtering at its Galtee plant in the town.

THERE was something homely looking about President Ronald Reagan when he appeared at the door of his Marine One helicopter which landed in the football field in Ballyporeen exactly 20 years ago this past weekend.

IRISH pig producers were disappointed this week when prices increased by 3c/kg in Dawn and Galtee, and only 2c/kg in Glanbia, despite a significantly stronger market across the EU.

A teenager who believed he was going to be killed said Hail Marys when he was kidnapped and driven up a mountain road on a foggy night by two men who were both given four-year suspended jail sentences today.

CASHEL in Co Tipperary has two €1 million-plus Georgian home options, one a town centre villa-style house on land with development scope; the other a true country living retreat on over 20 acres of land.

YOU can’t argue with success, but how the hell do you talk to failure? How do you face down over a century of submission, of abject failure?

A MOTORWAY plan linking the country’s two biggest cities could face lengthy delays, a judge has warned.