News that Mark Duffy and Martina Jennings have been selected to stand for Fine Gael in the upcoming general election in Mayo has transformed the race for the five seats in this constituency.

I have a fancy for poultry, hens in particular. They are easily kept, quickly trained and repay good husbandry with a supply of eggs.

Gemma Jordan (nee Lucey), a proud Cork native, has business in her blood. Raised in Mallow, her family institution of Lucey’s Butchers, now Lucey’s 1880, spans multiple generations.

In their song All the way from Tuam, the Sawdoctors describe the world they had come from. Anyone of my generation from the west of Ireland who listens to that song will well recognise the place and people it describes.

In the pantheon of true crime retellings, Ryan Murphy's latest opus, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, sits like a flashy, overwrought centrepiece - impossible to ignore yet equally impossible to digest without a strong constitution and a ...

One of these candidates is much slicker than the other, is a much more practiced, kinda professional, debate-style speaker - and the other candidate won.

News that Sligo County Council has voted for a defacto support for the reopening of the Western Rail Corridor from Sligo to Collooney is an important step forward for the region.

It is probably not an Irish thing but we are good at it. I’m talking about our penchant for adopting and adhering to good ideas for a while and then slowly but steadily wavering and then completely ignoring the good idea.

“And they’re off” conveys a sense of excitement and expectation at the start of what everyone hopes to be, for better or for worse, a memorable even a life-changing and possibly historic event.

The bramble berries were our food,  The water was our wine,  And the linnet in the self-same bush,  Came after us to dine.