It’s the time of year when everything is blooming. Wild plants in flower dress every rural lane in gay profusion, plants we never see at other times of year.

Our grey heron weathers the storms, but then he is much better equipped to do so than we are, writes Damien Enright

I was invited to spend a weekend fishing on Lough Mask, based in the charming Co Galway village of Clonbur. I jumped at it because, despite a lifetime spent fishing all over the country, I had never fished for the famous wild brown trout of Mask.

The parents of Cdt David Jevens are still looking for answers following his death in an Air Corps crash in Connemara three years ago, reports Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan

The bereaved parents of an air corps cadet have been asked by Defence Minister Alan Shatter to set out the reasons why they believe their son’s death has been the subject of a cover-up.

The first major coarse angling competition of the 2012 season was held at the Inniscarra Lake last month using the Garden Centre Stretch, Rooves Bay and St John’s sections.

A report into a Galway plane crash that killed two people has said the pilot may have become disoriented in deteriorating weather.

A man in his 50s has died in a boating accident in Co. Mayo.

Two fishermen have been brought to safety after a rescue operation in Co Mayo tonight.

An Air Corps flight which crashed killing a trainee pilot and instructor struck a mountainside about 200ft below standard flying levels, it emerged today.

A MAN who drowned in a tragic jet skiing accident in Mayo in 2007 had little training of jet skis, was a poor swimmer and was not wearing a life jacket, the Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) has found.

Jet skis should be registered with number plates and all users made to undergo training because of a surge in accidents, official investigators recommended today.

MAY the Lord protect us from jet skis, and from loudmouths with mobile phones in planes.

WATER supplies serving more than 316,000 people are in danger of failing standards designed to minimise traces of two cancer-causing disinfectants.

AN Oireachtas inquiry should be set up urgently to establish how Galway’s water supply was allowed to become contaminated by a harmful parasite, it was argued yesterday.

Preparations are today under way for the funerals of three friends who died in a road crash in Co Mayo.

THE Munster Juvenile Fly fishing championship was hosted by the Cahir & District Trout Anglers’ Club on the River Suir.

Met Éireann has announced plans to begin a new forecast of weather conditions on Ireland’s lakes.

The man who died in a boating accident in Co Mayo yesterday has been named.

Gardai have yet to name the victim of yesterday's boating accident in Co Mayo.