ONE of the key founders of the Irish co-operative movement was commemorated this week with ceremonies in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, where he is buried, and in Churchtown, north Cork, where he was born 150 years ago.

A YOUNG Limerick musician has won a scholarship to a world famous jazz institute in New York.

Former Aintree Grand National winner Ben Nevis has been elected to the American National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame.