The annual Spanish Wine Week runs from next Monday (April 8) until the following Sunday (April 14) with wine and food events around the country. For a full list of events and promotions visit www.spanishwineweek.ie.

FRIVOLOUS friendliness, generosity, and spontaneity are the hot commodities on offer at the second Random Acts of Kindness Festival being held in Clonakilty on Jul 19-25.

WE were sitting in a café on the Ormeau Road, talking football, when Declan Bogue told me that he was writing a book.

AN army bomb disposal team made safe a quantity of unstable picric acid at Tralee Institute of Technology yesterday.

AN erudite scholar of mathematics and Nobel Prize winner is visiting Tralee IT on September 8.