Just like the real-life Monsters Inc.

Catex — Ireland’s largest food service and hospitality exhibition — returns once more to Dublin’s RDS, on February 21-23. 

Industry leaders have praised the cross-category strategy in Food Wise 2025, the agri-food sector’s 10-year plan to expand its exports by 85% to €19bn and create 23,000 jobs.

Peter Dowdall says climate is key to the splendour of this weekend’s Festival of Flowers in Cork Harbour.

* East Cork Flower Club are holding a demonstration with Angela Heffron, AOIFA on Monday, April 7, at 8pm in St. John the Baptist National School, Midleton.

10,000 Canadian working visas are being made available to Irish people this year.

¦ Kanturk Flower and Garden Club will meet on Wednesday, Nov 13, with guest speaker Madeline McKeever, of Brown Envelope Seeds. All welcome, €5.00.

Three transition-year students who had the bottle to turn a classic science experiment into a toy have won the top prize at the Student Enterprise Award National Finals in Dublin yesterday.

Irish boyband Boyzone are marking 20 years in the business with a reunion tour in the autumn. As they reunite for a third time, Ed Power offers them his top 10 tips for a successful, em, ‘comeback’.

AUCTIONS are for everyone.

Some travel agents have reported an increase of 90% in bookings for January compared to last year, with some of the increase due to emigration.

Esther N McCarthy dips, wheels and whirls to pick cute, clever and crafty gifts for everyone this festive season.

One Canadian province estimates it will have 20,000 construction jobs which Irish people can fill over the next five years.

IRISH agriculture will have a key role to play in increasing exports and jobs in the Irish economy, IFA president John Bryan said at the Institute of International & European Affairs Conference “A Flavour of the future” in the RDS Dublin yesterday.

AMERICAN consumers would like to have greater access to Irish food products, according to a new survey by Dublin-based Amárach Research.

ON October 10 last year Angel and James McDonagh intruded on the Green party’s special convention in the RDS Dublin.

Journalist-turned-politician George Lee topped a resounding victory for Fine Gael tonight with leader Enda Kenny declaring “this government cannot ignore the will of the people”.

Newport Gwent Dragons have announced a 24-man squad ahead of their Magners League clash with Leinster at RDS Dublin on Saturday May 3, kick-off 6pm.

TICKETMASTER is raking in money from sold-out concerts by re-selling tickets on its own auction website — despite condemning fans for doing the same a year ago.

IRELAND’S national music awards, where the public gets a chance to choose some of the country’s best performers, was launched yesterday.

The Meteor Ireland Music Awards 2008 was launched today, and will be held in the RDS Dublin on Friday February 15, 2008.

Actor James Nesbitt is to host the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) for the third successive year, it was announced today.

More than 800 exhibitors from more than 60 countries will make this year's Holiday World exhibition the biggest yet.