From a distance, the standout feature on this lacustrine island in Lady’s Island Lake, Co Wexford, is of a solitary Monterey pine tree which dominates the character of the island.

Conor Power finds craic and calm in equal measure on an Irish riverboat cruise

WHERE Snowflakes Fall, by Claire Freedman, illustrated by Tina Macnaughton (Little Tiger Press; €7.07), is set in cold places, telling how creatures survive the icy landscape of their habitat.

British army bomb disposal experts today defused an incendiary bomb near one of Northern Ireland’s biggest tourist attractions.