THE National Organic Centre in Co Leitrim is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

The thatcher who reroofed one of the two Adare cottages destroyed in a fire at the weekend spoke yesterday of his sadness and shock at the destruction of his handiwork.

James Buckley bowled like an Oisín returned from Tír na nÓg in Sunday’s Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads final at Ballincurrig, we hadn’t seen anything like this from him since the 1990s.

MAG MELL, a play that encompasses traditional Irish music, dance and puppetry, stars Jon Kenny as politician/property developer PJ Foley.

A Crossbarry man has struck a blow for the Irish male, often maligned as not having a spark of romance.

Some 400 visitors stepped off the Cape Clear ferry for the island’s 19th international storytelling festival over the weekend.

There’s no need to go into contortions about Limerick’s prospects.

VICTORIA ROAD, CORK €265,000

BATT O’KEEFFE could hardly have chosen a more ironic moment to speak about the longevity of people from the Sliabh Luachra region of north Cork from which he hails — just as chanting students outside the building in which he was speaking were closing in fast.

SHE ran. That’s the marvellous thing. She ran. He told her to vacuum his car.

A CORK baby, laid to rest yesterday, had touched the hearts of many people.

EXTRA beds will be available in an emergency shelter for Cork’s homeless from next week, thanks to a residential centre to be officially opened later today.