Micheál (Mick) Ryan, an engineer with the United Nations’ World Food Programme, has been posthumously named the Humanitarian of the Year by the Irish Red Cross.

The sole Irish passport holder on board in a plane that crashed in Ethiopia yesterday, has been confirmed as being from Co Clare.

A cast of rural champions, including Scarriff businessman Padraig Giblin, has been confirmed for a conference at the end of the month that will seek inspiration from the world of sport in the bid to rejuvenate ailing parts of rural Ireland.

Ireland’s generosity in the farming community and wider public towards Rwandan women widowed by the horrific genocide of the mid 1990s hit a milestone today as Bóthar despatched its 1,000th cow to the African nation.

Michael Ryan guided Tipperary to their twenty seventh All-Ireland senior hurling championship in 2016; this December is one of the main speakers at Shannon Chamber’s annual Presidents lunch.