Today is the day to visit the Open Garden at Reggie and Cynthia Browne’s Oak Farm Estate, Carrigadrohid, Macroom, Co Cork in aid of Marymount Hospice from 2pm to 6pm.

An Open Day at Cuskinny Gardens will be held tomorrow Sunday April 24 in aid of Cobh Community Hospital at Cuskinny House, Cobh. Admission is €5 and there will be plants for sale on the day along with homem

Trinity College Dublin will today launch its new €600m strategic plan.

KNOW Your Neighbour Weekend was a great success, with more than 200 opportunities organised for neighbours to get to know each other.

A MAN began a hunger strike yesterday in an effort to force a better redundancy package from his employers.

Workers at three 4HOME Superstores are to mount pickets tomorrow after negotiations with the company about redundancy packages broke down.

STAFF at two outlets of the 4Home DIY chain have served strike notice on the company over plans to make them redundant.

TALKS aimed at ending the dispute between DIY chain 4Home and its workers in a north Cork store broke down without agreement last night.

A HIGH-profile sit-in protest by staff at a north Cork 4Home store has been called off after management agreed to meet with worker representatives for showdown talks on Monday.

STAFF at a 4HOME store in north Cork yesterday began a sit-in after being told they were to lose their jobs from the weekend.

MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside County Hall yesterday heard that Cork County Council is to take a mobile phone company to court to force it to remove a controversial mast.

GARDAÍ are keeping an open mind on whether a Brazilian, who was viciously beaten by three men, was the victim of a racially motivated attack.

Chaim Berger, one of the founders of New York’s Hasidic Jewish village of New Square and the mastermind of the theft of millions of dollars in US government subsidies, has died in a prison hospital.

IT’S the weekend of the great exodus as tens of thousands of people prepare to travel to festivals around the country to celebrate the August bank holiday.

A teenager who believed he was going to be killed said Hail Marys when he was kidnapped and driven up a mountain road on a foggy night by two men who were both given four-year suspended jail sentences today.

The US Attorney's office is investigating Bill Clinton's last-minute decision to commute the sentences of four men convicted of stealing millions in government funds.