The effects of Storm Frank are still being felt following the latest severe weather event to lash the country.

They never thought to stay in Wexford when they drove to the ferry in Rosslare. But for once, Pet O’Connell stopped for a look.

At a special event in London yesterday, the world's tallest man and smallest man met each other for the first time.

The Westener Boy returns to action in the Surehaul Mercedes-Benz Novice Hurdle at Clonmel today little more than a year after suffering what many feared would be a life-threatening injury in the Thyestes Chase.

Met Éireann has warned of a major flooding risk both from expected stormy weather from Wednesday onwards and from heavy rainfall which will swell rivers already near capacity.

There's no end in sight to the wet weather.

Clare County Council is reporting that all river systems throughout the county are “very elevated” following continued heavy rainfall in recent weeks.

The Army and Civil Defence are on stand-by as more serious flooding is expected in the coming days with a number of rivers already very high across the country.

The National Emergency Coordination Centre is warning of a further risk of flooding this weekend.

Communities living next to rivers are on high alert amid warnings that the country’s major waterways could burst their banks today or over the weekend with the forecast of heavy rain.

The National Coordination group said the risk of tidal flooding will recede in coming days.

Exciting chasing prospects Defy Logic and Don Cossack should make a successful start to their careers over the larger obstacles in Naas and Galway respectively today.

Torrential rain is having a serious impact on travel this afternoon, particularly in areas of Leinster.

It was one of the signature deals of the boom.

Iggy Pop , Cuchulainn and a suicide cluster have influenced Peter Murphy’s second novel, he explains how and why they got there to Declan Burke

Wexford manager Liam Dunne claims he is fighting against the GAA to get Paudie Butler on board as part of his backroom team.

She was acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest designers, so why was Eileen Gray ignored by Ireland for so long, asks Manchán Magan

THE solstice is a time to take stock and make new resolutions.

THE primary focus in Kilkenny hurling this week may be on Brian Cody’s trip with his senior team to the south-east next Saturday night for their provincial battle with Wexford but before that, their U21 counterparts get set for a similar journey tonight.

ANGLERS are being asked to take part in a project which aims to piece together the life story of the fascinating sea trout, a fish about which not that much is known.

I REFER to the two astonishing and disturbing letters (May 29) written by Aidan Barry of the South Western Fisheries Board and John O’Donoghue TD concerning the proposed reintroduction of commercial fishing in Castlemaine Harbour, Co Kerry.

FUNDING for five regional artisan food study tours, which will be held as part of the Terra Madre (Mother Earth) food festival in Waterford next month, was announced yesterday by Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív.

Marts: Beef prices continued the upward trend, making gains of 1-3c/kg, while the rate of price increase eased at the factories for last week’s kill.

Marts: Spring finishers of beef warned the processing industry at a meeting with Meat Industry Ireland last Friday of being left high and dry without spring beef supplies unless prices are improved.

Beef prices have continued the downward trend at the factories with further reductions as supplies exceeded demand at the processors yesterday.

Marts: While a few factories increased prices for R4L bullocks by almost 3 cents/kg (1p/lb), one-in-three factories paid lower returns or maintained the previous weeks level as processors reacted to the rising trend last week.

THE harrowing words spoken by the father of 28-year-old Sharon Grace, who drowned her daughters before killing herself, go to the heart of an Irish suicide crisis that claims the lives of hundreds of victims every year.

DARK shadows have again been cast across the face of Irish society by the appalling revelation that four people committed suicide in Co Wexford in recent days.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS excavating the Woodstown Viking site in Waterford believe that a number of other such settlements exist at riverside locations in the south-east.

FOUR Irishmen who answered the call of the sea and earned fame abroad were celebrated on home ground yesterday.

UP to 12 hours of torrential rain wreaked havoc across the south-east yesterday, with parts of Kilkenny and Wexford hardest hit.

THE Samaritans are to send additional volunteers to Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, as a search operation continues for three of the five young men drowned in the River Slaney during the last two weeks.

THE owners of the land used as an illegal dump in Co Wicklow face a multi-million clean up bill after a landmark High Court decision yesterday.

THOUSANDS of tonnes of waste, mostly shredded plastic, builders' rubble and other commercial refuse, has been dumped illegally at a site close to a Wexford village.