If you are grilling at home any of the southern Rhones below will work well. I’ve included one white in case you are cooking fish or would like an aperitif.

A retired guesthouse owner has been jailed for 18 months for the sexual molestation of his 11-year-old niece when she visited from America.

From watery Viking adventues to the antics of the animal kingdom (dead and alive), the capital has loads to entertain and educate the kids, writes Esther N McCarthy

Dublin City Council has defended its role in attempting to keep the Web Summit in the capital, saying it continues to offer every possible support to organisers for this year’s event.

Joe McQuillan may be as familiar with Dublin and Mayo as Aidan O’Shea with his local barber shop, but there is no love lost with either camp.

THE pleasures of 1 Glencrea far outweigh any perceived small drawbacks — on charm grounds alone, this Gardiner’s Hill house is off to a good start.

BOOK THIS

Cork City Council has allowed retention permission for the use of an old city-centre schoolyard as an ancillary to a pub.

One post-Web Summit chancer is selling a half empty packet of Tayto that may or may not have passed through Eva Longoria’s hands.

The matriarch of Irish food, Myrtle Allen, was last night inducted into the inaugural Good Food Ireland Hall of Fame along with Redmond O’Donoghue and Web Summit Founder Paddy Cosgrave at an event in Herbert Park.

THERE’LL BE PLENTY OOH AH IN DUAGH

Nama is pursuing businessman Garrett Kelleher for €46.8m summary judgment orders arising mostly from a limited guarantee relating to substantial loans made by the former Anglo Irish Bank for developments in Ireland, the US and Belgium.

More than 100,000 people in Dublin are living and sleeping with noise pollution.

THE recent Web Summit in the RDS in Dublin brought to Ireland by brilliant young entrepreneur Paddy Cosgrave blew people out of the water.

Art and nature have always been part of my makeup.

A bench dedicated to the memory of Gerry Ryan has been destroyed by vandals.

Paddy Power’s pre-tax profits, announced this week, jumped from €67m in 2009 to €104m in 2010, driven by a strong online performance but also supported by expansion in Britain and a rise in traditional trade, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

AS the two men approached each other by the bandstand in a near deserted park at twilight, the scene was reminiscent of an old spy movie.

A 39-year-old man is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in managing brothels in cities around the country.

A PRIME Dublin 4 address and some redbrick charm are on offer at an attractive two-bed house at 13 Dodder View Cottages in Ballsbridge.

A Co Down man who admitted running a network of brothels in Dublin has been sentenced to two and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Co Down man who admitted running a network of brothels in Dublin has had his sentencing adjourned until Friday.

A female garda who made a false complaint to colleagues that she had been attacked in a taxi by the driver and two other men has been ordered to perform 240 hours community service in lieu of an prison sentence.

IN HER book Wild Dublin, Éanna Ní Lamhna mentions an unusual visitor to one of the city’s parks.

A female garda who made a false complaint to colleagues that she had been attacked in a taxi by the driver and two other men has had her sentencing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court adjourned until next month.

The son of Ireland’s Maltese ambassador has not invoked diplomatic immunity over two sexual assault allegations, his foreign ministry has said.

GARDAÍ said yesterday that no decision had been made not to prosecute a man — who enjoys diplomatic immunity — for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman.

Leinster and Ireland rugby player Denis Hickey was on hand today to launch the Volvic Tag Summer Leagues in Herbert Park, Dublin.

Tommy Barker extols the virtues of a period home whose quality is way ahead of many modern houses.

NETWORK IRELAND, the organisation for women in business, the professions and the arts has announced details of its annual conference.

GARDAÍ carrying out a murder investigation, following the stabbing of a 47-year-old asylum seeker, in Tralee, Co Kerry, are examining a taxi used to take him to hospital, at the weekend.

GARDAÍ were last night trying to trace the final movements of a man found dead in a ditch with stab wounds near the canal in Mullingar town.

Gardaí today appealed for information after a walker was found with serious injuries in a park in south Dublin.