Veteran music star Leonard Cohen is to play a one-off outdoor show in the UK this summer – with a mammoth set lasting more than three hours.

IS it really possible that a bird once so commonplace, so recognisable in shape and sound in every estuary and bog, on virtually every mountainside and shoreline, is facing extinction in Ireland within a decade?

IT may not herald a U-turn in property price trends but one of the most exclusive homes to come to the market in Ireland this year failed to sell at auction yesterday, despite an offer of €4m.

John Dwyer collected the Spar Moran Cup at Royal Dublin but had to survive shootout drama with Neil Manchip after the pair shared a five-under-par 67.