Jim Hurley - Nature Trail The spells of fine weather last week with warm sunshine, higher than normal temperatures and slack winds resulted in several butterflies being on the wing rather late in the season. The odd Small White, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell and Speckled Wood was about and, surprise, surprise, I spotted a lone Comma looking...
Pete Wedderburn - Animal Doctor Janie is a ten year old spayed female cross bred terrier. One Monday evening recently, she suddenly seemed under the weather. She was duller than usual, and significantly, she had refused to eat all day.
Micheál Ó Domhnaill With the evenings closing in it's never more important to take advantage of the daylight and to get out walking whatever the weather.
Jim Hurley - Nature Trail Albeit a time of falling leaves and falling temperatures, hazel nuts are ripening rapidly in their leafy cups in this season of nature's bounty with woodlands abounding with blackberries, sloes, haws, hips, chestnuts, acorns, mushrooms and other autumn fruits.
'The Kendricks and Drakes and Coles may be at the top of the rap food chain, but there's a crop of younger MCs - all of them between the ages of 20 and 29 - who are on the trajectory to reach their level of greatness and impact,' says complex.com as they name the ten best rappers in their twenties:
Chris Hayes - Game Review If there was ever any dispute concerning the king of motorsports games in the past half decade, surely now there can be no debate over which racing heavyweight lays claim to the title.
Pete Wedderburn - Animal Doctor Euthanasia is probably the single biggest difference between medical care for humans and veterinary care for pets.
Musical Youth's biggest selling song was partially based on 'Pass The Kouchie', a song by Jamaican harmony trio, Mighty Diamonds, about the recreational use of cannabis (kouchie is slang for a cannabis pipe).
The number of cohabiting couples in Ireland is on the rise. In Sligo, there are 1,719 cohabiting couples, with 877 having children.
Award-winning garden designer Leonie Cornelius and jewellery designer Martin Hamilton of The Cat & The Moon have together created a precious sculpture for GOAL.
Pete Wedderburn - Animal Doctor My home is a menagerie: a selection of animals co-habit with my human family. We have dogs and cats, of course, but we've also had rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, a snake, and a selection of fish and birds. The birds have included a wide selection of species - canaries and budgies in a large outdoor aviary, plus ducks and hens free...
Jim Hurley - Nature Trail You have surely noticed harvestmen over recent months? So called because they are most abundant and obvious at harvest-time in late summer and early autumn, they are commonly seen resting on...
Straight Talking - Grace Larkin IT was with a groan that I watched the ad for season 15 of X Factor. Fifteen years of oohing and aaing over the cute little child with the astounding voice. Fifteen years of being amazed by the talented teenager and fifteen years of thinking maybe you've still got it when you see the middle aged granny belting out the rock ballads.
As more and more people look to ways of lowering their waste bill and of reducing what they send to landfill, your compost bin provides a great solution.
Micheál Ó Domhnaill Sligo's first-ever trail running festival brings a new adventure experience to the northwest over the last weekend of September.
Pete Wedderburn - Animal Doctor Clive is a Goldendoodle who is the Assistance Dog for Murray, a 20 year old young man with autism. Murray was just 7 years old when Irish Guide Dogs supplied him with Clive - so the dog is now thirteen years of age. While Clive officially retired three years ago, he is still a key part of Murray's life: he has been a central emotional...
