He has a CV that would be the envy of any highly- regarded chef worldwide and now Patrick Murphy is bringing that experience to his new restaurant at Stoneview in Blarney, Co Cork.

KILLER WHALES, or ‘orcas’, visit our shores from time to time but only one pod seems to be resident in Irish waters. 

Chile has come a long way. If you told a wine merchant in 1990 that in 2015, we would be drinking more wine from Chile than anywhere else in the world, they would simply have laughed at you.

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Theirs is a private joy - Keith Duggan

Residents of a Cork suburb will be the first in the country to experience a new concept in walking which, according to its creator, a former army officer, promotes inner peace and physical wellbeing.

Here are some of the best things to do this week in Ireland.

Mortensen has always been happy to follow his heart when choosing his roles writes Shilpa Ganatra

The cast and crew of BBC’s Top Gear had to abandon their cars at the roadside and flee Argentina after being pelted with stones by an angry crowd.

Close encounters of the whale kind.

WALKING a bohreen above the sea last week, on a day that was dull, but warm — intermittent patches of bright sunlight, a pearl grey blanket overhead, and heavy heat beneath — I suddenly found a half dozen butterflies zipping madcap around me at a rate approaching the speed of bats.

Scientists in Argentina have uncovered what could be the largest dinosaur yet found — a long-necked titanosaur as tall as a six-storey building, whose thigh bone alone dwarfs grown men.

Dinosaur fossils found in Patagonia provide the first evidence long-necked diplodocid sauropods survived beyond the Jurassic period, when they were thought to have gone extinct.

Bestselling author Simon Winchester has been added to the burgeoning line-up for this year’s Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, taking place in Lismore later this month.

Pope Francis has opened his pontificate this morning with a visit to Rome’s main basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Latin Americans reacted with joy, bursting into tears and cheers tonight at news that an Argentine cardinal has become the first pope from the hemisphere.

Liam Neeson has revealed people often mistake him for fellow actor Ralph Fiennes and he has even signed an autograph as the 'Harry Potter' star rather than admit his real identity.

Researchers in Chile have released a series of time-lapse photos showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia.

A hospital director said there were no survivors in the wreckage of commercial plane carrying 22 over Argentina’s Patagonia.

Michael Palin’s next travel series will be from Brazil, it was revealed today.

A REDDISH microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rainforests of northern Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists.

More than 200 oil-slicked penguins have washed up dead on the beaches of a popular Brazilian resort, and officials say they are searching for a cause.

I READ Donal Lenihan’s feature ‘Holding out for a hero’ (October 19) about the plane that came down in the Andes in October 1972 with a Uruguayan rugby team on board.

THE skeleton of what could be a new dinosaur species — a giant, Patagonian plant-eater — has been uncovered in Argentina. At more than 105 feet, it is among the largest ever found, scientists said yesterday.

The remains of a gigantic new dinosaur species have been unearthed in Argentina.

RARE genetic disorders may leave an imprint on a child’s face that can be used to aid diagnosis, new research has shown.

A fire swept through a small hotel in Santiago, Chile, early today leaving 10 foreign tourists dead, a Fire Department commander said.

Argentina 27 Wales 25

Wales coach Gareth Jenkins believes his first game in charge against Argentina will mark the start of his preparations towards next year’s World Cup.

Wales coach Gareth Jenkins has picked two uncapped players from his young touring squad to start the first Test against Argentina in Puerto Madryn on Sunday.

GARETH Jenkins has left Colin Charvis out of his squad to tour Argentina next month but insisted the former Wales captain still had an international future.

UP and down the icy spine of South America, the glaciers are melting, the white mantle of the Andes Mountains washing away at an ever faster rate.

FROM the icy reaches of Patagonia to tropical jungles in the north, Argentines began voting yesterday for a new president to rescue Latin America’s number three economy from a crisis that plunged millions of middleclass Argentines into poverty.