A beaming Leo gave it socks, while everyone gushed over the bromance, says Lise Hand

Mark your diaries. From festivals to rainy day actitivies, Ciara McDonnell has rounded up 20 ways to keep the kids amused this summer

The ladies of Innishannon ICA Guild get about. In the last decade, members have travelled the length and breath of Ireland by bus. 

Extra vehicles using a new car park in a town hit by chronic congestion will not create a traffic hazard, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.

Scenic landmarks in the south-west are due to make yet another screen appearance before millions of viewers in the US.

A convicted rapist who repeatedly violated his release conditions has been freed after a court heard he is now receiving psychiatric treatment.

SCARCELY a week passes without news of yet another invasive species, plant or animal, reaching our shores.

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London at Christmas including Visit to Kensington Palace with Afternoon Tea

YOU’RE going to Druid’s Glen, but neither of you plays golf?” was the response when we said we were going to the Wicklow resort for a family weekend in bleak January.

The self-declared People’s Republic of Cork has joined an exclusive club of regions around the world to get their own version of the world-famous board game.

WHEN the garden flowers slowly begin to dissolve, evergreen plants gain the significance they lack during the days of plenty.

THE rustic poet Patrick Kavanagh put it lyrically when he wrote that “ordinary things wear lovely wings”.

Charlie Wilkins has a spring in his step as he looks forward to exploring some of the best gardens in the country

LET’S pretend it’s summer!

Two Mullingar men have been raising awareness and money for the organisation Irish Autism Action by running 32 marathons across 32 counties in 32 days.

A Dublin garda station under renovation is allowing local youths to spray graffiti around its construction site.

RECENTLY I have come to have great pity for the people in north Mayo who are objecting to the proposed Corrib gas pipeline and refinery.

MORE than 700,000 people visited Muckross House and Gardens in Killarney during 2007, ensuring its position among the top five tourist attractions nationally.

Uganda will be aiming to finish unbeaten in the ICC World Cricket League Division 3 when it faces an ever-improving Argentina in the final in Darwin, Australia, on Saturday.

ON St Patrick’s weekend we had the usual exodus of politicians on so-called promotional trips around the globe.

FOUR-TIME Irish Field St Leger winner Vinnie Roe heads 17 horses confirmed at the five-day stage for the Curragh Classic on Saturday.

EVEN the name Blair's Cove, sounds faintly exotic. It could easily be some Antipodean sun-kissed beach-spot, but Blair's Cove, on the shoreline of Dunmanus Bay is in west Cork, on five peninsular acres of Irish coastline.

Wasps’ hopes of retaining their Zurich Premiership title have been hit by a serious injury to their ex-New Zealand prop Craig Dowd.

The British government today confirmed it will install close circuit television cameras along the peaceline in east Belfast in a bid to stop sectarian rioting.