No provision has been made in planning laws, in Kerry, for a minimum distance of the erection of huge wind turbines from family homes.

A heartland of old Gaelic music and literature is refusing to dance to the tune of wind developers.

The up-market Peninsula House, at Lisheen outside of Skibbereen, is an unusual mix, says Tommy Barker.

It’s not very often that you get a home of this size and quality near Douglas, and mere minutes from Cork city centre. Tommy Barker admires the perfectly up-to-date Lisheen, a fine large home sitting pretty on over 0.6 of an acre in leafy Woodview

A 77-year-old bachelor farmer who was caught drink driving more than three years ago will be allowed “motor on” for another year, a court has decided.

Tom McGrath reckons it was close to 9pm before his nephew Brian left the Connolly house on the night of Saturday, September 19.

A 16-time national rowing champion has told how Paul O'Donovan had aimed to row in Rio since the age of 12.

1. JOE WARD (Light heavyweight boxer)

Fashion shop owner Sean Murray has the measure of two of Ireland’s Olympic medal hopefuls.

Tommy Barker reports on an exceptional harbourside home, in impeccable order inside and out.

This property clicked with Tommy Barker while photographer Denis Scannell had the task of saying cheese.

I’M TELLING you that Connell is good, he’ll be heard of yet,” declared the late fiddle player Denis Murphy, one of the finest exponents of Sliabh Luachra music.

Two people were killed in separate road crashes in Cork and Carlow yesterday.

Size: Sq m 121 (1,300 sq ft)

Sq m: 370 (4,000 sq ft)

A “significant incident investigation” has been launched after an underground fire at Tara Mines left one miner in hospital.

A man killed by a rockfall inside a mine in Tipperary has been named as Mario Francis from the Philippines.

Locals have been left in shock following the death of a man in a mine in Co Tipperary.

A man took his own life in an explosion at the mine where he worked just hours after a review meeting at which he became upset when told of “weak points” voiced about him by colleagues, an inquest heard.

Pre-tax profits at the company that processes lead and zinc from the Lisheen mine in Co Tipperary increased by nearly 60% last year, to $75.6m (€58m).

A Cork hotel snug has a long-held reputation for romantic hook-ups. Louise Roseingrave couldn’t resist trying it out

Rugby legend Donncha O’Callaghan is lending his support to a charity cycle designed to raise funds for a voluntary service providing cancer patients with free transport to Cork hospitals.

New phase of Ovens development from O’Callaghan Properties for sale, Tommy Barker reports.

A VOLUNTARY drive to provide radiotherapy patients from West Cork with free transport to Cork University Hospital (CUH) has proved a major success and plans are now in place to do the same for those needing chemotherapy.

Connemara Mining has announced it intends to sell 5,250,000 new shares at 20p in order to increase its drilling operations.

CONNEMARA Mining, the Irish AIM-listed zinc explorer, has announced that drilling has begun on their three-licence Thurles block near the Lisheen zinc mine in Co Tipperary.

A MEMORIAL service took place yesterday at the Co Tipperary zinc mine where a 47-year-old father of three — whose partner is due a baby this summer — lost his life in an explosion earlier this week.

A ZINC mine which is about to be taken over by an Indian multi-national has become the scene of tragedy following an underground explosion which killed one man and left another injured.

Gardaí are investigating a house fire on the Cork-Kerry border that has left one man dead.

Connemara Mining, the AIM listed zinc exploration company, has raised £1.06m through a placing of 5,283,000 new ordinary shares of €0.01 each at a price of 20 pence per ordinary share.

WORKERS at the Lisheen Mines in Co Tipperary are concerned about the security of their jobs, according to a staff member who attended an information meeting with management yesterday.

TWELVE were built and eight are now sold, giving a choice of just four properties at the new Lisheen Fields development in Ballincollig, Co Cork.

LIMERICK County Council yesterday removed a boil water notice affecting 340 households connected to Rockhill supply scheme.

IRISH zinc and lead exploration company, Connemara Mining — which recorded a widening in its full-year losses in 2007 from €3,137 to €624,398 — yesterday announced its intention to extend its drilling programmes at its main two zinc sites in Limerick and Meath.

Connemara Mining, the Irish zinc and lead explorer, has announced a second discovery of high-grade zinc mineralisation at its Monaster operation close to Limerick city.