The Irish Garden Plant Society (Munster) will hold its next meeting on October 6 at the SMA Hall Wilton, starting at 8pm. 

Cobh Flower and Horticulture Club holds its next meeting in Cobh Community Centre on Monday 2nd March at 8pm. 

The Irish Garden Plant Society Munster Branch will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, February 3 at the SMA Hall Wilton, starting at 8pm. 

The GIY ‘Get Ireland Growing Fund’ in association with AIB is open for applications but the deadline is nigh — January 23 is the closing date. 

Blackrock Flower and Garden Club will host DJ Murphy on Tuesday, October 7 for a talk and demonstration at the Ursuline Secondary school at 7.30pm. All welcome.

* East Cork Flower Club are holding a demonstration with Angela Heffron, AOIFA on Monday, April 7, at 8pm in St. John the Baptist National School, Midleton.

¦ Innishannon Flower and Garden Club will host herbalist, Colette Healy on Jan 15 at 8pm in Barrett’s Lounge.

¦ Coachford flower and garden club are hosting a Christmas demonstration: ‘Have yourself a very Merry Christmas’, with Margaret Ahern, in the Village Inn Coachford, on Dec 4, at 8pm.

Denise Hall reveals Bantry’s 215 years old link to the Atlantic Challenge

THE final round of this season’s Dunlop National Rally Championship, the Fastnet Rally, has a new base and headquarters at the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry.

THE clocks were turned back yesterday, but the thoughts of Macra na Feirme members attending their annual national rally in Bantry were focused on looking ahead.

THERE was a nail-biting finish to the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All-Ireland Schools Quiz at the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry last night

MEDICAL experts on sudden adult death syndrome are to offer advice to sporting clubs on the lethal disease next week.