A runner always thinks they can do better when they run a personal best but there wasn’t much more Sean Hehir could do after his breakthrough performance at the London Marathon last Sunday.

The seventh annual Lismore Opera Festival will take place at Lismore Castle, Co Waterford, on June 3 and 4.

It must be hard keeping up with the Joneses down around West Cork’s chi-chi Castletownshend. 

It’s a wonderful time of year when Christmas tree lights start popping up in home windows. Ellie O’Byrne offers up tips sure to make friends and neighbours jealous of your seasonal decor.

A Cork solicitor and financial adviser was jailed last night after a jury returned 13 guilty verdicts against him in his deception trial.

Ryanair has defended its use of a photograph of Cork to promote flights to Dublin in a French newspaper — by claiming nowhere in the capital looked as nice.

A commemorative ceremony has been held at Castlemartyr Resort in East Cork to honour the life and achievements of a local horticulturist who landscaped parts of the White House in Washington DC.

WHEN an outbreak of foot and mouth disease occurs abroad, disinfectant mats are deployed at our ports and airports and every precaution is taken to prevent the infection of our valuable livestock.

President Barack Obama saluted Dr Martin Luther King today as a man who “stirred our conscience” and made the Union “more perfect”.

AN 84-year-old guesthouse owner has begun a High Court libel action for damages against RTÉ over a Gerry Ryan “Nob Nation” sketch which said his former hotel the Maryland was a “byword in Waterford for prostitution”.

Newlyweds William and Kate kissed on the balcony of Buckingham Palace today as thousands of well-wishers cheered.

PRINCE William revealed tonight he proposed using the engagement ring of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, to make sure she “didn’t miss out on the excitement”.

PEOPLE seeking legal aid are waiting for up to seven months before being appointed a solicitor in some parts of the country, latest figures from the Legal Aid Board have shown.

A BROKEN bottle is believed to have been used in an assault during which a man sustained serious facial injuries in Tralee early yesterday.

WATERFORD is on the brink of a jobs and services bonanza as plans emerge for a new €100 million Government Quarter in the city centre.

TRALEE TIGERS are determined to build on their confidence-boosting victory in Limerick last Monday when they travel to UCD tomorrow in week four of basketball’s NIVEA for Men SuperLeague.

News of an intruder being arrested inside Windsor Castle at Prince William’s 21st birthday party is the latest in a long line of Royal security breaches.

A Limerick man told the Special Criminal Court today that he was at a Republican Sinn Fein meeting discussing a forthcoming republican commemoration when gardaí raided a house in the city.