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The three-day weekend leading into a four-day week threw many of us off course over the last seven days but at least things will return to normal soon - or will they? As the ongoing volcanic ash cloud disruption continues to mess up travel and holiday schedules you get the sense that so much is still up in the air (excuse the pun). Making far-off plans for the future just doesn’t seem wise with other shock events rooting us to the spot, such as the passing of 2fm DJ Gerry Ryan, which continues to resonate even one week later. This ‘Lady Di’ moment of ours obviously gave many of us cause to pause and take stock as we try to figure out whether we should continue along the current paths of our lives or change things around radically for the better.

The home of democracy, the fathers of philosophy, one of the founding nations of civilization, what did the Greeks ever do for us?

The home of democracy, the fathers of philosophy, one of the founding nations of civilization, what did the Greeks ever do for us?

It’s all about pensions this week and the county was waiting with bated breath to hear if Liam would give it all up for the love of the country... And he did.

Elite Traveler, a worldwide lifestyle magazine aimed at the richest of the rich, has named the Linda Evangelista Suite at the g Hotel one of the 101 Top Hotel/Resort Suites of the Year.

The voice of acclaimed Greek singer Savina Yannatou is often regarded as an instrument in itself and so I wasn’t surprised to hear the enchanting rhythmic tones of her soothing voice when she spoke to me from her home in Athens last week.

THE SPIRIT and the extraordinary music of the late, great, and much missed Rory Gallagher will be heard loud and clear when Sinnerboy play the Róisín Dubh.

Dame Alice herself will be rocking it up on Friday November 14 when Sinnerboy, the renowned Rory Gallagher tribute band, make a very welcome return visit to Kilkenny to play Kyteler’s Inn.

There can be fewer more pleasant places to be on a crisp, bright autumn day than a beech wood. The sunlight seems to sparkle and fizz as it falls through the lightening canopy on to leaves the colour of burnished copper, which contrast perfectly with the tree trunks’ smooth, tactile grey bark. It’s almost the epitome of autumn. In spring, too, there’s hardly any tree, except perhaps the silver birch, that has such vibrant, sparkling, thoroughly spring-like leaves. Gilbert White, the eighteenth-century English clergyman and naturalist, described it in The Natural History of Selborne as ‘the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs’.