Kilkenny, Ireland News

Katie Barrett of Corner Brook is heading off to Europe with the Long Island Youth Orchestra as its principal trumpeter for a three-week tour.

SEAMUS Pattison, now 77, was a relatively new TD when he watched JFK deliver his address to the Houses of the Oireachtas in 1963.

Leslie Day, 48, raped the victim when she was just 13 at an address in March, Cambridgeshire, in the 1990s.

In a visually stunning multichannel video installation, " The Enclave " , Richard Mosse has created an immersive environment that plunges the viewer into the heart of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The competition is being judged by Brendan Barrington, Senior Editor at Penguin Ireland, and writers Evelyn Conlon and Christine Dwyer Hickey.

Gillian McCarthy, accountant, Lynch Solicitors; John M Lynch, principal, Lynch Solicitors; Andrea Gleasure, solicitor, Lynch Solicitors, and Dr Maeve Martin, clinical director, InForm Psychological Services, at the launch of the Personal Insolvency and Bankruptcy seminars Picture: Jonathan Ryan, Tipperary Photos.

THE chairman of the Dail public spending watchdog claims there is a case to be made the taxpayer to pay for ministers to take their spouses abroad while on official travel.

Twilight Music presents an evening of traditional Irish music with a modern edge by McAuley, Horan, O'Caoimh at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, 139 Main St., on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Accordionist/vocalist Mick McAuley and fiddler Winifred Horan are both long-time members of Irish-American supergoup Solas.

A Clonmel army officer will be among the 61 Roses taking part in the Rose of Tralee Regional Festival this weekend, one of the outstanding ambassadors who exemplify the true spirit of modern young Irish women Aoife Shanley, a lieutenant in the Irish Defence Force, will be representing her native county in the fore-runner to the international ... (more)