Gardaí at Lismore, Co Waterford are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 44-year-old Linda Murray missing from her home at Church Street, Lismore Co Waterford since Sunday the 16th November 2014.

Lismore, Co Waterford

War reporter Tim Butcher and Irish nomad Manchán Magan are among those telling their tales at the Immrama festival in Lismore, writes Orlagh Ní Arrachtáin

I GOT a wonderful letter today beautifully hand-written by a woman who described herself as an octogenarian.

Up to 170 people attended a meeting in an East Cork village as opposition mounts in the south of the country to Eirgrid’s proposed €500m overhead powerline.

The availability of land and the “sensible transfer” of farms from one generation to another is one of the major challenges facing the country’s young farmers, Macra na Feirme’s Young Farmer of the Year said yesterday.

CHARLIE Connelly, author of self-deprecating, quirky travel books, is the host of this year’s literary breakfast at the Immrama festival of travel writing in Lismore, Co Waterford, on Jun 16.

As restaurants continue to close, Joe McNamee discovers that a good location and the right menu are the keys to survival

Signs of a resurgence in the hospitality sector have been signalled by Georgina Campbell who yesterday judged the Granville Hotel in Waterford as the Irish hotel of the year and The GreenHouse in Dublin as restaurant of the year.

WHEN I tell people what I do for a living, their eyes widen.

SIR Humphrey Gilbert was the Pol Pot of his generation when it came to amassing Irish skulls, many of which ended up being used as medicine by the English aristocracy.

THE recently-formed Irish Show Jumping Centres Group (ISJCG) is not hanging around.

ONE of the world’s best-loved travel writers, Redmond O’Hanlon, is guest speaker at the Immrama Literary Breakfast taking place next Sunday in Lismore, Co Waterford.

Join Frank, Annie and Robbie Krawczyk, in cooperation with West Cork Slow Food, for a Gwiazdka, a Polish christmas feast at Summersalt Restaurant, Ballydehob, Co Cork, on Wednesday, December 6 at 7.30pm.

IRELAND’S new focus on science in our schools augers well for the country and will help forge links with some of the world’s leading economies, maths experts say.