Glenville Flower and Garden Club will start its winter season with an interesting talk and slide show by Jim Wilson of Bird Watch Ireland on Tuesday September 29 at 8.30pm.

Cork Alpine Hardy Plant Society will host Alan Street of Avon Bulbs to talk on “The Magical Mystery Tour: Why bulbs are so special; Which to choose and how to get the wow”.

Three men will appear in court this morning after a Garda car was rammed during a high-speed chase in Carlow at the weekend.

Three men were being questioned yesterday in relation to two successive ramming incidents which left gardaí requiring hospitalisation.

“Probably the most committed bunch of players I’ve ever been involved with” — that’s manager John Meyler on the Carlow squad that takes on Laois tomorrow in Portlaoise in the Leinster SHC quarter-final.

Gardaí are investigating the death of an 8-year-old boy who was knocked down at a rugby club as an awards ceremony was taking place.

The Bishop of Kildare has defended the parish priest in Carlow who made a €92,000 tax settlement with the Revenue Commissioners earlier this year.

KILKENNY will be without key player Sinead Millea for Sunday’s National League crunch tie against Galway having broken her finger in their drawn encounter with Tipperary two weeks ago.

SEVEN people were killed in five separate accidents on another black weekend on the roads.