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I have always had great respect for the Irish yew tree. Because of its association with sanctuary and protection in mythology, you often see the yew in old graveyards. But its strength and bulk in old age, (it can live for hundreds of years, fertile to the last bearing red berries and new growth every spring), it is also associated with love and protection. It is considered a great gift to have yew in your garden. If you are fortunate to have yew trees of a great age you are doubly blessed. Its branches are traditionally used in the Palm Sunday ritual.

The Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra is offering music lovers a rare opportunity to experience one of Germany’s finest ensembles.

As part of the fund-raising efforts for the Ballina Arts Centre redevelopment campaign, there will be a Meet the Author Brunch in the Downhill Hotel, on Saturday March 21 at 12pm. The event will be hosted by local-based authors Morag Prunty (who sometimes writes as Kate Kerrigan) and Helen Falconer, and will feature best-selling writers Claudia Carroll and Anita Notaro.

A new booklet on sexual health aims to create greater awareness of sexually transmitted infections which have increased by 30 per cent in the west in the past year.

ONE OF the most successful comedy film franchises during the 1980s was Police Academy. In 1984 Messrs Mahoney, Hightower, Tackleberry and Jones were a group of misfits who unwittingly found themselves recruited as trainee US police officers.

Thomastown residents are relieved to hear that the issues surrounding pedestrian safety and traffic management at Dangan are soon to be addressed with the construction of a new bypass.

BURT KIMMELMANN, the poet, editor, and professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology, will read in The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, on Tuesday April 14 at 8pm.

One of the most unusual strategies ever used by a young wife to keep a faltering marriage together was employed by Mrs W B Yeats on their honeymoon.

A GAA match is being shown on television, a ball is hit and sails over the crossbar, as it does, someone in the crowd lifts a large yellow banner with the legend John 3:7.

On Friday June 12 O’Donnellan & Joyce will offer for sale by public auction two of the best houses and one unique site all located in the Claddagh within a stone’s throw of each other. It is not often that such a selection of wonderful properties comes to the market in the rare and much sought after locations of Beattystown and Frenchville. Auctions for properties in these locations have always proved very successful for O’Donnellan & Joyce and the agents are confident that even in this depressed market the auction on June 12 will be no different.