WORLD VISION: Through its ‘Sponsor a Child’ programme, World Vision works with communities worldwide on projects to provide clean water, healthcare, and education and to improve farming methods.

Eddie Nolan, one of the best known figures in the Irish motoring industry and the early force behind the Ford Cork Week sailing regatta, died at the weekend.

IF far from the maddening crowd is most newlyweds’ idea of the perfect honeymoon, John Lowry and Jane Gallagher have chosen the opposite extreme.

CORK WEEK chairman Peter Deasy said he is pleased with the level of support for the bi-annual regatta and is also looking forward to welcoming more yachts and crew in July.

THIS year’s Cork Week Grand Prix regatta, the biggest sailing event in the world run by a single club, will once more attract yachts and sailors from all over the world.

MEDICAL opposition to the burning of waste was consolidated at the Association of General Practitioners’ AGM held in the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Crosshaven, Co Cork, recently.