THE busy South Cork guild at Innishannon got the past year off to an altruistic start with two whist card drives which raised proceeds for the Bandon Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber and Rehab.

THE woman who died after celebrating a hen party night in Kinsale sent a text message to a friend, hours before her death, complaining she and her sister were feeling sick.

A LEADING psychiatrist will tell parents how to talk to their teenagers about drink and drugs at a free public meeting tonight.

GOURMETS are set to get their tastebuds tingling this weekend as more than 30,000 meals are scoffed as part of Ireland’s oldest food festival.

GARDAÍ have ruled out foul play in the death of a 24-year-old man whose body was discovered floating in a harbour in Co Cork.

STRAIGHT to auction was the decision following the preliminary market launch of a farm at Ardkilly, Sandycove, Kinsale, Co Cork.

A TOP gourmet festival got a new “pepe” in its step last night.

Eoin English

FOR those who dread the onslaught of TV channels from around the globe in the digital revolution, there’s an irony in the fact that the Head of RTÉ’s Digital Television development lives in a place called World’s End.