GinghamWe love the breeziness of the chequered dresses swirling around the country, with versions available from MS, Richard Alan and Laura Ashley.
Rhys RuddockImagine playing for Ireland under-20s at the Junior World Cup in Argentina, and getting a call from Declan Kidney to fly to NZ to play with the big boys. Go the Ruddocks!
A roll in the hayTrim, Co Meath, is the place to be tomorrow, for the Haymaking Festival (1pm-6pm). Fishing displays, vintage tractors, handsome farmers. You might spot a Bruton.
The Tannery Cookery SchoolPaul Flynn's gem in Dungarvan has rightly won a best-of-them-all award. See tannery.ie
Aung San Sui Kyi's birthdayMark it tonight at 8pm at the NCH with Christy Moore, Fiachra Trench and many more. Tickets 01-4170000
Lisloughrey LodgeAnnual summer lunch on June 24th in Cong, Co Mayo, is fun and supports breast cancer research. See nbcri.ie
VuvuzelaWe love this new word in our vocabulary, if not the sound. But we'd better get used to it; those horns are heading this way sure as Santa Claus
"Mini" ice-creams from LidlYou never just eat one of them
DemocracyIt's endangered, surely. All these incestuous politicians deciding who our leaders are going to be. When are we going to get a vote?
The flipflop clip-clopSave them for the beach not the office
