Culture vultures will be able to embark on a city-wide digital treasure hunt as part of this year’s culture night celebrations in Cork.

A Russian recruitment agency is coming to Dublin next week to recruit Irish childcare workers and teachers for jobs with wealthy Russian families.

For a full week they looked on, as their disputed dirty linen was aired in public, but the continent’s rugby powerbrokers kept their laundry in-house yesterday after taking the first, tentative steps towards a new accord for the European game’s club tournaments.

After weeks of posturing over the future of the Heineken Cup, European Rugby stakeholders will all meet face to face for the first time in a Dublin hotel today to begin thrashing out a way forward for the continent’s premier club competition.

“You don’t volunteer for this kind of job — you do it when you have to,” said octogenarian Peter Riordan, Ireland’s National Carer of the Year.

AGRI-services group Origin Enterprises has delivered 10% underlying growth in revenue in the first quarter pushing shares ahead by 3.7% yesterday.

Val McDermid’s perspective as a woman is key to her ability to write crime fiction, but the genre is more than it seems, she tells Declan Burke.

IRELAND’s well-heeled and famous are giving some of their precious belongings to help raise money for cancer research.

* CORKSCREW Winter Wine Fair takes place tomorrow from 1pm to 6pm at the Westbury Hotel just around the corner from the shop on Chatham Street, Dublin 2. Tickets €25, from 01 674 5731 or www.thecorkscrew.ie.

IF you want a job with the one of the hottest young internet companies around, the first thing you’ll have to figure out is: Why am I here?

Three players from this year's two All-Ireland senior winning sides, Tipperary and Cork, and a fourth from beaten SFC finalists Down have today collected the last of the 2010 GAA Player of the Month awards, sponsored by Vodafone.

CORK and Dublin don’t share much in the way of recent championship history but John O’Leary is more qualified than most when it comes to untangling the few strands that drew the counties together twice in 1983 and once again 12 years later.

KATY PERRY cast an eye over Ireland’s would-be superstars yesterday when she guested as a judge on X Factor auditions in Dublin.

GREENCORE’S chief executive Patrick Coveney said consumer sales in the first half year have started to pick up for the group.

BIKERS have been urged to saddle up for a very special fundraising event to help Ireland’s beautiful conjoined eight-week-old twins.

IRISH Continental Group (ICG) – the ferry and freight services business – has reported a 9.7% year-on-year decline in passenger numbers for the 25-week period up to the end of last week.

WEXFORD’S Kate Kelly and Cork’s Briege Corkery were yesterday named the Vodafone GAA Camogie and Ladies’ Football Players of the Year for 2007.

The two candidates vying for the Labour deputy leadership begin laying out their stalls to the party membership today.

INDEPENDENT retailers will be waking up this morning wondering why the nation’s newest consumer champion so publicly championed the supermarket big boys yesterday.

The Vodafone GAA Players of the Month awards for July have gone to Laois footballer Ross Munnelly and Waterford hurler Dan Shanahan.

Dublin footballer Conal Keaney and Cork hurler John Gardiner have been selected as the Vodafone GAA All-Star Players of the Month for June.

Tipperary hurler Eoin Kelly and Offaly footballer Karol Slattery have picked up the Vodafone GAA All-Stars Player of the Month awards for May.

Having helped their respective counties to National League titles, Kilkenny hurler Henry Shefflin and Kerry footballer Darragh Ó Sé have been named as Vodafone GAA Players of the Month for April.

Clare hurler Tony Carmody and Galway footballer Michael Meehan were named today as the Vodafone GAA Players of the Month for March.

Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins and Fermanagh defender Barry Owens have been chosen as the Vodafone GAA Players of the Month for February.

OUTGOING President Sean Kelly was last night honoured in Dublin for his inspired leadership of the GAA over the last three years.

Arsenal midfielder Liam Brady lifted the FA Cup in his hometown of Dublin today, as the Gunners gave Irish fans the chance to buy a home at Highbury.

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Consuming friendly live bacteria may help to lower people’s risk of developing cancer, it was claimed today.

OVERWORKED doctors who fall ill are either unable to take time off or are forced to return to work before fully recovering, a GP survey has found.

DENIS Law walks into the Westbury Hotel and old heads turn. It’s the sort of establishment that shrugs its shoulders when celebrities show up. But George Best has ambled in a while ago — and now Law.