More Grimm Brothers Fairytales than grim in style is the Gatelodge — and its gardens — at the former Wicklow estate of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.

After the extremes of a summer and winter in just 10 days, the Easter weekend looks set to return to the decidedly average conditions that characterise an Irish spring.

Motorists were warned to take extra care after gale force winds battered the country.

Gardaí in Co. Wicklow are continuing to question a man and a woman about a major drugs seizure yesterday.

LIKE Dr Pat Walsh (Letters, May 12), I too welcome the debate on Gallipoli in the columns of the Irish Examiner.

PETER LAWRIE secured his first top 10 finish of the new season, as he finished ninth behind Sweden’s Robert Karlsson who captured his first victory in 14 months with success in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.

DANIELLE McVEIGH faces a mammoth task over the next two days to lift the European Ladies Amateur Team title at Falsterbo in Sweden — but she is still very much in contention for a medal.

DANIELLE MCVEIGH produced a dramatic rearguard action to snatch the Ladies British Open Amateur stroke-play title at Royal Aberdeen yesterday.

Ireland's Danielle McVeigh claimed the biggest win of her career with a one-stroke victory in the Ladies' British Open Amateur Strokeplay Championship at Royal Aberdeen.

AN estimated 1,000 horses will starve to death in Ireland this winter due to the credit crunch, it was claimed yesterday.

THE setting up of a new financial institution to provide credit lines was sought by Macra na Feirme president Michael Gowing in his inaugural address at the weekend.

SOME 127 junior handicap golfers competed in the first round of the Munster Ladies Championships in glorious sunshine at Dooks Golf Club on Tuesday with the seniors qualifying on yesterday.

Leading qualifier Tara Delaney cruised into the last 16 of the Lancôme Irish Ladies Close Championship with a 3 and 1 win over Charlotte Crowe at Lahinch today.

Carlow's Tara Delaney led the qualifiers in the Lancôme Irish Ladies’

Galway's Sinead O’Sullivan hit a brilliant level-par 74 today to lead the Lancôme Irish Ladies’ Close Championship after the first qualifying round at windswept Lahinch.

Tricia Mangan (Ennis), fresh from her seventh-place finish at the Welsh Open Strokeplay, defends her Lancome Irish Ladies’ Close Championship at The European Club, Co Wicklow, May 13 to 17.

Ten people have been injured in a three-car pile-up in Co Wicklow this afternoon.

Three men, two of them believed to be from the same family, have died in a road crash.

An historic Co Wicklow hotel has been badly damaged by fire.