Eighty-three per cent of smokers regret starting smoking, according to the HSE. If they had the choice again, they say, they would never take that first puff.

Tereasa McGuire has done many things in her life so far. She was a teacher, an assistant pharmacist, a local politician, and is now a qualified psychotherapist and death doula.

Budgets are not what they used to be. Once they were significant, even formalaic occasions with their own set rubrics and liturgies.

The memory of the summer months of 2023 could be summarised as a sandwich of two heatwaves interspersed with what seems in retrospect like an almost constant deluge of rain.

If, like me, you have heard of the now ubiquitous 'NGO' but are unsure of what the acronym comprises, this article will hopefully help. My curiosity is piqued because NGOs are at once maligned and lauded.

There are times when trying to win a battle means you lose the war. The debate about the derogation from the Nitrates Directive is one of those occasions. Farming is a big part of who we have been and who we are. It has a big and important future.

After the summer they had, RTÉ sure needed the Late Late Show to change the conversation. The new host, Patrick Kielty, certainly provides them with the fresh face they wanted. The first show of his tenure went pretty well.

Stories of Ballyhaunis business life in the 1980s and 1990s were shared at a recent tribute to the late Mohammed Sher Rafique organised by Ballyhaunis Community Council as part of its Heritage Week events.

One hundred years ago, in 1923, Rev James Greer, published his famous book, The Windings of the Moy.

It is an embarrassing spectacle which is doing even more damage to what’s left of the Church’s reputation.