If ever there was a flower that symbolises the fleeting, bittersweet beauty of the garden in summer, then it’s surely the ...

IN recent years the Government and society in the Republic have been bombarded ad nauseam by those campaigning for state recognition of those Irish in British uniform who died on the poppy fields ...

There was a bittersweet note to the 1967 Clare hurling championship victory for Newmarket-on-Fergus. Celebrations were still going strong throughout the town late into the summer evening when John ...

It's hard to believe that something as beautiful as the poppy could prove contentious. Yet whatever your worldview, it's hard not to be moved by the symbolism. The seed of Papaver rhoeas, the ...