ATHY may be young, but they certainly know how to play.

IT has 220 acres of the best land in Kildare, and Nurney Demesne is renowned for high quality crops and consistently good yields, according to auctioneer Paddy Jordan of Jordan Estate Agents, who is about to take the 270-acre residential tillage farm to auction on November 29.

THE skeletal remains of more than a thousand people have been recovered from what experts believe was one of the country’s largest medieval cemeteries.

AGE Action has urged older people to take back prescriptions from pharmacists unable to guarantee their continued participation in the state drug schemes from tomorrow and give it to one willing to fill it for them.

THE equine world is focussed on the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby, which takes place at the Curragh tomorrow. But many of those in attendance will already have witnessed a thoroughbred derby of a different nature however, having gone to tonight’s battle football battle between Kildare and Laois.

PRESSURED by the unrelenting property boom, industrious young workers from Dublin embarked on a modest western migration.

The national council of the Irish Nurses Organisation has approved an emergency motion calling on its members to take whatever legal or industrial action is necessary to put a stop to cost-cutting measures.

JIMMY SANDS we will never forget you, went the joke about the status of the 1981 hunger strike in Irish history.

IN THE void left by silent politicians, grassroots commuter groups are forming en-masse in an effort to harness support for improved rail services and standards.

Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness has refused to rule out contesting the next general election in Co Louth.

A record number of babies were born in the Coombe Women's Hospital last year, with 7,848 babies being delivered.