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Opel’s GSe badge has been the company’s performance sub-brand down through the years. Now pricing and equipment details of two new, special-order GSe models have been released for the Irish market. Offering the optimum balance between ride, comfort and performance, combined with emissions-free electric mobility, the new Opel Astra plug-in electric hybrid GSe 225hp hatchback […]

Country Living with Francis Farragher Probably being from country stock has meant there has always been a little allurement towards the weather and maybe for good reason too. It often determined the workload for the day and also big decisions like when crops could be harvested or whether we’d be kept home from school to […]

Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamara Fashion has always brought happiness to Gayle Poppers despite turmoil in her life. The daughter of Dutch artist Noor Poppers, she had an unconventional upbringing. Her grandmother was a costume designer for the theatre and her earliest memories are of making dolls clothes on a sewing machine at […]

Máire Ní Thaidhg was one of the first tenants at Ceardlann an Spidéil when the ground-breaking craft village opened in 1984. Since then, her unique, colourful textiles, which she makes using traditional methods, have won her fans from near and far. As she retires, Máire tells JUDY MURPHY how her hobby became her livelihood.  Weaver […]

Galway 3-22 Cork 4-24 READING too much into league form has always carried some risk, but since the introduction of the split GAA season what happens in the Spring has become even more unreliable in terms of assessing teams’ prospects for the championship. Look at the contrasting fortunes of Limerick and Waterford in last year’s […]

1923 Truth and peace No single person in Ireland to-day, unless he be deliberately cheating his own conscience and deceiving his neighbours, can plead that he has done wrong because his moral teachers and guides have not kept his mind on the path of justice and truth. During the last eight months while Ireland has […]

Colga 1 Avenue United 1 (Aet -Colga won 3-0 on pens) Mike Rafferty in Kilcornan NOW fairytales are for children, but Colga are now making their own as they have advanced through six rounds of the FAI Junior Cup and following this success in Kilcornan on Saturday, are through to the quarter-finals of the national […]

Summerhill College 0-16 Coláiste Bhaile Chláir 1-9 Ivan Smyth in Bekan COLÁISTE Bhaile Chláir’s dreams of securing a first ever Connacht Post Primary Schools Senior A football title were dashed after a powerful second half display from Sligo’s Summerhill College. The Claregalway school were appearing in their first ever final at this level and after […]

World of Politics with Harry McGee The 1937 Constitution is in many ways a fine document, but it is a creature of its time. There are loads of glaring anachronisms – not least Article 41.2. That provides that the “State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support […]

THE virtues of accurate and efficient fertiliser spreading have been extolled by Teagasc In their latest edition of Today’s Farm. Teagasc specialist, Dermot Forristal, from Oak Park In Carlow, has outlined the ‘six commandments’ to ensure that farmers get the full value from the bag fertiliser they spread. Fertiliser quality, the capabilities of your spreader, […]