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Some of the colourful Parakeets

Paddy loves tweeting

TWEETING IS not a new craze for bird fancier Paddy Murphy as the well-known New Ross man has enjoyed the chirping and twittering of his fantastic selection of rare birds for almost sixty years.

Borrowers caught up in wealth illusion

WHEN TAOISEACH Enda Kenny last week attributed the country's economic collapse to a madness for borrowing that gripped the population in the heady days of the Celtic Tiger, he sparked a chorus of howling indignation, some of it from the most unlikely quarters.

The truth hurts: Taoiseach was right

By DEBORAH COLEMAN

IT CAME as a surprise to me that Enda Kenny's comments about greed and excessive borrowing were met with such anger in recent days but as they say 'the truth hurts'.

No planes, I'll take trains and automobiles

MARATHON INVITATION

Little is known about extra thin hairworms

I GOT a hairworm to identify. Hairworms are creatures about which little is known.

Seven students Graduate from Enniscorthy Disability Project in WIT

SEVEN students graduated from Enniscorthy Disability Project in Waterford Institute of Technology last week. The annual Graduation ceremonies held during the first week of January, were especially important for a number of students graduating from Enniscorthy Enterprise and Technology Centre. The FÁS funded DPP project, a programme established 6 years ago for people with disabilities had seven graduates, who were rewarded for their hard work and dedication, with a HETAC level 6 certificate in Office Administration. There are currently 13 more students studying who are hoping to graduate next January.

Home Care �?“ the alternative to nursing home care

NURSING homes can be helpful but there is no place like home. Home is a place to feel safe and warm surrounded by the memories that make up a lifetime. Home is the foundation of our lives. A symbol of our families and friends. It's a personal sanctuary of comfort and familiarity. Home is the one place where we can truly be ourselves.

Police escorts and burning heat. Welcome to Mexico...

Last July, Gorey's Ian Lacey set out on a 17,000-mile cycle from the top of Alaska to the most southerly point in South America to raise awareness and funds for the Carers Association. Now in Mexico, Ian recounts some of his journey

Congress Bell calling us back to God's love

By FR BRIAN WHELAN

THE 50TH International Eucharistic Congress is due to take place in Dublin next June, where it is expected that over 80,000 people will attend the closing ceremony in Croke Park on June 17th 2012. Since early last year, the preparations have been on-going for this major event in the life of the universal Church.

'Recovering' the value of your pension in these times of risk

By Jim Doyle ACMA QFA is a partner in RDA Accountants offering full accountancy, business advisory, tax advisory and financial services.

Q. Like many people who have Pensions, I have seen the value of my Pension eroded over the past few years. As I am Self Employed I need to ensure that my Pension Fund is sufficiently large enough to enable me to have a comfortable standard of living in retirement. I am unsure as to what action I need to take in order to at least bring my Pension Fund back to the value of the contributions I paid into it. Can you please help?

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In Pictures

The week in pictures The week in pictures for 2012-01-31

In Pictures

Historic postcards Over 6,000 photographs, political prints and portraits from days gone by form part of a project launched at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. To view collection and buy the images, visit www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/postcards.