Jennifer Hickey always remembers making things with her hands in her youth. With two sisters now fashion designers – Emer Hickey works in couture with Thom Browne in New York, and Laura Chambers has a cashmere label in Dublin – there was always a sewing m... See more
Westmeath County Council are working to develop online portal options for payments and applications, a recent meeting of Athlone Moate Municipal District heard. It was revealed in response to a motion by Cllr Frankie Keena which asked that Athlone Moate M... See more
Snowdrops have inspired poets from Wordsworth to Tennyson and many more with their annual display of resilience and hope of an approaching spring after a long, dark winter. Cork gardener Hester Forde shares their sentiments every year as she describes bei... See more
To most of us, Glastonbury is home to a world-famous music festival. But did you know the town is also associated with a sacred landscape of stories of a land-based goddess, as well as mythology associated with King Arthur and stories linking it to the ro... See more
Karl Henry is a familiar sight walking around the fields close to his home near Clonakilty, Co Cork. But last summer he wasn’t able to make it up a flight of stairs after being struck down by a viral bug and pneumonia, which resulted in a hospital stay fo... See more
