Des Bishop played another blinder of a gig last night at Red Bennies on Chapel Street Melbourne. The gig was totally booked out with queues outside as the doors opened.

Inside Des as always had the 300 strong Irish with a few Aussies thrown in for good measure crowd,   hanging on his every word.  Managing to as always have the crowd relate to everything he joked about.

A second investigation has been launched into the scuba diving accident that claimed the life of a Ballintra woman Elaine Morrow.

Australian workplace, health and safety officials have now joined Mackay Police in Queensland in investigating the circumstances into the death last Monday.

Writer, actress and comedian Fiona O’Loughlin, mother of five and third generation Australian, was conscious of her Irish heritage but not sure what it meant.