HE MIGHT have caricatured himself as an ‘old scarecrow’ but William Butler Yeats, the antediluvian gentleman of our Leaving Certificate years, was, it appears, anything but.

THE Irish Seed Savers’ Association in Scariff is inviting the public to their first plant swap event this weekend.

Active Ennis Leisure Complex has been presented with the prestigious White Flag Award for Disability Provision.

A working group is literally pushing out the boat to achieve Blue Flag status for the popular bathing and recreational amenity at Ballyalla Lake, on the outskirts of the town.

Diners tucked into yet another culinary delight at Cassidy’s Pub in Carron recently, unaware that their succulent goat stew had been prepared by Aussie celebrity chef Lyndey Milan.

PRIOR to last weekend, Phil Mickleson had an unenviable record in the US PGA Open Championship. He had finished runner-up on five occasions. Unfortunately for him he has now stretched that record to six.

CORK playwright and actor Stefanie Preissner is bringing her one-woman show Solpadeine is my Boyfriend to Cultúrlann Sweeney in Kilkee on June 29.