Coachford Flower and Garden Club is having a talk on spring gardening on Wednesday, February 18, in Breathnach’s Courtyard Café. The guest speaker is DJ Murphy from Bandon Garden Centre.

* East Cork Flower Club are holding a demonstration with Angela Heffron, AOIFA on Monday, April 7, at 8pm in St. John the Baptist National School, Midleton.

Get the blues — in a good way — this year with TheVelvetLab.

Esther N McCarthy continues her trawl for interior treasures. This week she discovers sewing is a mug’s game, that stools are worth standing up for and also hooks an invite to a vintage tea party.

Each week, Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting bits for your home. This week, she gets passionate about purple lamps and gets a boost from a bright baby chair.

Health and safety officials were last night trying to establish what may have caused a 12m wall to collapse at a DIY and garden centre in Longford on Tuesday, killing two men and injuring four others.

Four people remain in hospital this morning following the collapse of a wall in a Longford DIY centre which killed two others.

A health and safety probe is under way after two customers died following a wall collapse at a DIY centre in Co Longford.

A second man has died after a 40ft wall collapsed at a DIY store in Longford town.

One man has died, a second is fighting for life and three others are seriously injured after a 40-foot wall collapsed at a DIY store in Longford Town.

Young McDonnell who has a “petting farm” has adopted two little piggies who needed a home.

THE first concerted political effort to restore the Cork to Swansea ferry service will begin today.

Rose Martin checks out a rare Georgian gem in lush West Cork.

Supermarket giant Tesco tightened its grip on Dobbies Garden Centres in the UK today by revealing it now owned just over 28% of its takeover target.

Bank of Ireland has announced plans to create almost 250 new jobs in the North.

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