FILM TIPS: The revamped version of The Jungle Book is the big draw at cinemas this weekend, and both trailer and early reviews suggest it’s well worth seeing.

DURING March the bright stars of winter give way to the inexorable lengthening of the day as the sun rises higher in the sky. On March 20, the day and night are of equal length, the so-called spring equinox (‘equal night’).

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‘Skin to Air & Edge of Absence’ is an exhibition by Bernadette Cotter at the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, and represents three and a half years of intricate work in textiles and on paper.

Dean Ivory is resisting the temptation to run his progressive sprinter Sirius Prospect abroad during the winter and will save him for the start of the 2012 British campaign.

A CYNIC might suspect that birder and photographer Ronan McLaughlin this month choked Cuskinny Marsh of its oxygen — and consequently its marine life — as a stunt for the upcoming launch of his calendar collection of exquisite wildlife photography, and to make his images all the rarer, as he has tracked the months and the seasons on this widely-sung and justly-appreciated marsh beauty spot.

THOUGHT for a minute there that I’d come up with a wizard idea for this week’s column. Letter From Tbilisi, I was going to call title it, beneath which I’d pen the single word, ‘oops’.

ROLL up, roll up! Sirius Heights has one last, three-bed penthouse left for €380,000 and it comes with designer styling and all furniture and fittings.

MARS passes closer to the Earth tomorrow than it has at any time in almost 60,000 years.

Mars passes closer to the Earth this week than it has at any time in almost 60,000 years.