Ireland has 99 species of bees but one third of them are currently threatened with extinction due to a reduction in food sources (wildflowers) and safe nesting sites.

Fans of Hollywood heart throb George Clooney will be seeing double on the red carpet come Oscar night, thanks to a pioneering Co Kilkenny competition to find the star’s doppelganger.

HOLLYWOOD heart-throb George Clooney is a Kilkenny man.