Building on the success of the Wild Atlantic Way, the Hidden Heartlands showcase the very best our inland counties have to offer, writes Ciara McDonnell.

Ten years on from the publication of his book, Hooked, Kevin Markham looks at how golf in Ireland has evolved.

Next Tuesday marks the origins of an American conspiracy to depict Éamon de Valera and his government as morally indifferent to the outcome of the Second World War. Historian and author Ryle Dwyer argues that false claims about neutrality have produced possibly the greatest distortion of Irish history since independence.

IF ever you feel compelled to search for deeper reasons why Fermanagh are one of only two counties to have never won their provincial football Championship, you could find something in the tale of Father Theobald Mathew.

One of the best short videos of a humpback whale leaping vertically, full body, out of the sea was taken just outside Courtmacsherry Bay by a visitor aboard Mark Gannon’s angling boat.

Kevin Markham on the statutes, structures, and settings which focuses a golfer’s mind and lasts long in the memory.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Luna McKinney who drowned in County Fermanagh in April.

Auditing firm KPMG was paid fees and expenses of over €770,000 concerning the administration of the five-star Lough Erne resort, new documents show.

 

Colm McLoughlin, executive vice-chairman of Dubai Duty Free, has indicated that the company’s sponsorship of golf’s Irish Open has the potential to stretch far beyond the current three-year term, which is due to expire in 2018.

The owners of the five-star Lough Erne Resort last night said they “extremely disappointed” at the European Tour’s decision not to host the 2017 Irish Open at the Fermanagh resort.

Thirty-five people were saved from likely death last year by lifeboat crews who rescued more than 1,200 people in Irish waters.

Like the 46A bus to Dun Laoghaire, which would take an age to come and then arrive with another stuck to its exhaust pipe, there are signs that things are about to start moving apace in Irish golf.

Another year, another Irish Open and the debates continue as to the best venue and time of year to play one of the most popular tournaments on the European Tour.

Stephen Rogers visits the five-star resort hotel that hosted the G8 summit in 2013 on the shores of Castle Hume Lough.

When John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote “With a Little Help from My Friends” they never have imagined it would become one of the biggest sellers of all time. 

The good summer weather last year resulted in an increase in the number of people rescued by lifeboats.

Fota Island Resort is in the market to welcome back the Irish Open to Cork "in the not too distant future", as the city and county prepares to bid for a number of spectacular international sporting events on the back of a successful staging of the European Tour event.

Rory McIlroy might be big box office, but the Irish Open still needs a commitment from the Irish Government to ensure the event builds on the momentum of what promises to be an 80,000 sellout at Royal County Down next May.

It’s been just over two weeks since Donegal turned the bookies odds on their head and delivered their finest display of the Jim McGuinness era, seeing off heavily-favoured Dublin with a pulsating semi-final performance that few outside the set-up saw coming.

Jim McGuinness admitted he used the training camp at Lough Erne last week to try prepare his side for every eventuality Kerry could throw at them in Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

If Mike Frank Russell knows Jim McGuinness like he thinks he does, then the Donegal manager will have a plan of action for dealing with Colm Cooper in the All-Ireland final.

CLASS. Sheer class. That’s the only summation to describe the show that has been going on this week at the Fota Island Resort.

The body of a man has been recovered from Lough Erne in Fermanagh.

A search operation has resumed in county Fermanagh this morning for a man who is missing after a boat with six people on board capsized yesterday.

A search and rescue operation in Co. Fermanagh has been stood down for the evening.

Donald Trump yesterday confirmed he has been in touch with the European Tour with a view to staging the Irish Open at his recently acquired links at Doonbeg in West Clare.

A Wicklow car hire service was paid over €82,000 ($114,000) to ferry around the US first lady, her two daughters, and entourage during a short visit to Dublin last June.

The joint administrators of the five-star Lough Erne resort that last year staged the G8 summit believe that unsecured creditors owed £3.5m (€4.25m) from the hotel’s administration will not be paid.

We always knew it was going to be a big year, and it started a little earlier for us than usual.

The K Club’s Ryder Cup course has been voted the country’s top parkland course for 2014 by readers of Golfing Weekly. Its sister course at the Straffan estate, the Smurfit Course, came in at No 15.

Two people have been rescued after an aircraft ditched in county Fermanagh earlier this evening.

William Dargan: an honourable life 1799-1867

THE fact that our lakes and rivers still contain many biological surprises was emphasised recently when it was announced that freshwater jellyfish had been discovered in Lough Derg and Lough Erne.

THE second Happy Days International Beckett Festival, devoted to Irish literary giant, Samuel Beckett, is on this week in Enniskillen. Beckett lived in the Fermanagh town during his teenage years, when he was a boarding student at Portora Royal School.

Home hero Shane Lowry holds the key to the O’Meara Course at Carton House beating off serious competition to host next year’s Irish Open.

The luxury Fermanagh hotel which hosted the most peaceful G8 in history could be sold by the end of the summer, it was revealed today.

At least one landmark in Enniskillen can already claim a tourism spin-off from the G8 summit.

Crisis, what crisis?

Ireland’s tax status became a talking point at the G8 as world powers moved to clamp down on corporate tax evasion, Enda Kenny has admitted.