Grow it Yourself (GIY) meets at O’Donovan’s Hotel in Clonakilty on Monday, Oct 13 at 8pm. 

One of the visual highlights of Kinsale Arts Festival is an exhibition by celebrated Dublin artist, Kathy Prendergast, who pushes the boundaries between traditional and contemporary art.

Ambitious plans to develop an interpretive centre and a memorial to honour Irish soldiers who have served in armies around the world over the last four centuries have been unveiled.

* East Cork Flower Club are holding a demonstration with Angela Heffron, AOIFA on Monday, April 7, at 8pm in St. John the Baptist National School, Midleton.

¦ Macroom Flower & Garden Club Spring Floral Demonstration & Gardening Talk on Hellebores & Spring Bulbs Thursday, March 13 at 8.00pm, Coolcower House.

JIMMY GRALTON is the only Irishman to be deported from Ireland in the history of the state, (80 years ago), and he’s also the focus of a film being shot in Co Leitrim at the moment by Ken Loach, which is a companion piece to his 2006 Palme d’Or winner, The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

County councillors are backing solicitors in registering anger at the proposed closure of a courthouse in Co Cork.

A judge has criticised Dublin-based “mandarins”, detached from the reality of life in rural Ireland, for advocating the closure of a district court in one of the country’s top tourist towns.

New twists have developed in the battle to prevent sittings of three courts being transferred from West Cork to Cork city.

The versatile rosehip can be put to a host of culinary and medicinal uses, says Kitty Scully.

The weed invasion, the dread of every gardener, is an offensive that must be stopped.

An historic cathedral was destroyed today in a Christmas Day fire.

An investigation is underway this morning into the cause of a fire at St Mel's Cathedral in Longford.

KINSALE Environment Watch (KEW) invites your readers to celebrate International Biodiversity Day with us on Saturday, May 22, in the local Temperance Hall from 10am to 4pm.