MORE than 3,000 dairy farmers and their families attended the Irish Holstein Friesian Association (IHFA) open day on the farm of Thomas and Michael Buckley at Ballinahina, Dublin Pike, near Cork city.

IN JANUARY 2007, Johnny Keane embarked on the 80 mile round trip from his home in Liscarroll to Dripsey, where he had become the club’s hurling coach.

AN estimated 12,000 people flocked to The Beaches in Bantry for the annual agricultural show last Sunday.

THE prestigious breeders’ championship at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show was won by a nine-year-old bay mare owned by Margaret Jeffares, Ballykelly House, Drinagh, Co Wexford.

WEST CORK breeder and exhibitor Denis Dullea, Killountain, Bandon, made his long journey to the Roscommon Show worthwhile last weekend.

Two rural police stations in Co Fermanagh have been saved from closure, it was announced today – but the shut down of six more remained on course.

MAYO and Fermanagh were football opponents in Croke Park yesterday, but it was different at the weekend Limerick Show where interests from both counties combined to bring off a spectacular all-island final success in horse showing.

Police in the North are investigating the possibility that an independent nationalist councillor whose body was found in a lake 29 years ago was murdered by soldiers from the Ulster Defence Regiment.

THE family of a murdered councillor are to go to court to challenge the handling of the investigation by police.

A FORMER member of the Northern Ireland Assembly is expected to be questioned by detectives investigating the murder of a man whose body was found in a lake nearly 30 years ago.

The family of a man murdered in the North in 1974 has criticised a decision to reopen the investigation into his death.

Detectives today launched a new investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found in a lake 27 years ago.