For the Mitchell family, the last two years have been a labour of love, as they worked tirelessly to restore a 1926 Cork-built Model T Ford and get it back on the open road.

For a man who had battled all his life, it was fitting that his last fight was the toughest and, perhaps, the most heroic.

It took 300 years for the second woman to be initiated into an Irish Freemason lodge, but now it appears the floodgates are to open.

For only the second time ever, a woman has been accepted into an Irish freemason lodge — exactly 300 years after the first.

MET ÉIREANN has warned of severe wintry weather for much of the coming week, with significant falls of snow likely in addition to frost and ice.