Pilot scheme aims to highlight heritage potential of lesser-known villages and boost visitor numbers

A couple in their 50s had to be brought to safety by mountain rescue volunteers after becoming lost in a dense rhododendron forest in the Knockmealdown mountains.

We set off from the pier.

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.

IT’S the “season of mist and yellow fruit fullness” and despite the warm misty weather there are a few mushrooms about.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

Photographer George Munday hopes to realise his dream by crowd-funding, where supporters pledge funds in advance.

SPAIN: WALKING IN LA GOMERA, CANARY ISLANDS

MIDWAY through every 12-week certificate course at the Ballymaloe Cookery School, we all pile onto a bus and go on a foodie tour.

BALLYVOLANE, CORK €150,000

Distinctive features ensure Midleton property stands out from the crowd, writes Trish Dromey

THE CELTIC CAMINO IN WATERFORD AND TIPPERARY

A GOOD eye, a very sharp one, eclectic too with a quirky and unerring taste applied the final gloss to Lismore’s Headview, once part of the Devonshire estate.

SHEEP farmers here and in the rest of Europe are having a challenging time. Several major supermarkets are offering two for the price of one, which means the farmers get half the usual price for their produce.

MORE than 2,500 people from the south-east revelled in this year’s Bealtaine Festival of Outdoor Science, a week-long event which saw them embrace the great outdoors.

LANDSBOROUGH, in Cork’s Rochestown, has always been seen as a lofty, trading-up address, but it is literally so elevated that it has views of the hills of Tipperary and the Waterford border, too.

Richard Collins on the big cat scare in the mountains of Munster

A GANG who attacked a garda with an iron bar in south Tipperary may have been on their way to an intended robbery.

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.

CARRAUNTOOHIL measures 3,409 feet; Slieve Donard in the Mourne Mountains is 2,798 feet high; Mount Snowdon stands at 3,560 feet; Scafell Pike at 3,205 feet and Ben Nevis, is 4,409 feet tall.

THERE’S a whole heap of property, and then there’s the stunning natural setting too, on offer at the Cooldevane, Clogheen, Co Tipperary home.

John Murphy

THE monument to Liam Lynch on the Knockmealdown mountainside is a stark reminder of the tragedy of the civil war that followed the Anglo-Irish treaty.

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.

YOU see why Cork is the biggest country in Ireland when you wend your way to Killasseragh.

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.

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

A religious community has thrown its weight behind opposition to a planned wind farm in Waterford .