Secret Garden is a family-owned stone cottage right next to a beautiful park on the Beara Peninsula, says Trish Dromey.

Brendan O’Neill felt a sense of peace and wellbeing on a visit to the Treaty city.

* Make and Take wedding flowers for DIY brides is a half-day workshop on April 2, 1.30-6.30pm.

IF YOU can put horses into burgers, why not cows into bars? Seasoned pub and club operators in Cork are set to cause a stampede of cow puns as they open their new premises, The Holy Cow.

The investigation of a spate of burglaries throughout Cork and Kerry where over €90,000 worth of property was stolen led gardaí to the door of a Lithuanian couple where they found some of the stolen property.

FIONNUALA Gill was a founding member of choral group Anúna, and a lead singer with Riverdance. The 43-year-old, who’s based in Portmarnock, now has a solo career and was encouraged by Eurovision winners Secret Garden.

AS I STAND at the Mulranny Park Hotel in Co Mayo on day one of a weekend trip, my eye races over the empty spaces, trying to comprehend the beauty of the interlocking mountains, the sweep of the sea, the sense of boundless landscape.

The new Big Brother contestants were today feeling restless within the confined space of the Secret Garden.

Curiosity got the better of Big Brother contestant Makosi today and left her facing a secret challenge – to feed, clothe and tend the secret housemates.