Tony Clayton-Lea flies into Venice and makes his way around one of Italy’s most famous regions to experience beautiful landscapes, hidden gems, vineyards and glorious late spring sunshine

At college, Alan studied animation, but he wrote short fiction, too.

It was a sight seldom seen these days: Crowds spilling out of a Cork city centre church as queues formed outside and more waited in line for the next Mass.

Call from Pope Francis, what are the chances?

Cast Yard, Kilkenny

TAMING is the operative word in The Taming of the Shrew, a play about the arranged marriage of Petruchio and Katherine. The original is set in Padua, a powerful city-state in Renaissance Italy. Petruchio lays it out baldly to his betrothed: “For I am born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.”

“Let’s face it,” reasoned Time Magazine, with its online readership on Monday, “It’s good to have the Irish back.”

CORK’s older suburbs must be near bottoming out in terms of price drops — they have the benefit of not having much opposition being built around them anymore, and ease of access is always going to win out in these expensive commuting times.

HUNDREDS of thousands of women rallied in Rome and other cities yesterday, incensed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal which they say has disgraced Italy.

A Milan judge has ordered former Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio to stand trial on a charge of market rigging.

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was confirmed yesterday in a third African country, deepening experts’ fears that the disease is becoming endemic on the poor, ill-equipped continent and that it may already be far more widespread than reported.

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was today confirmed in a third African country, deepening experts’ fears that the disease is becoming endemic on the poor, ill-equipped continent and that it may already be far more widespread than reported.

Bird flu has been detected in migratory birds in Italy, Greece and Bulgaria, it was revealed today.

TWO ‘old Douglas’ houses are up for sale with ERA Downey McCarthy Murphy and both offer trader-uppers the chance to move in from the outer suburbs.

Francesco Casagrande has been expelled from the Giro d'Italia for causing John Freddy Garcia to take a spill during the 15th stage.