Daylight

If you are up early tomorrow - or any other Thursday - you can take a coach at 8 a.m. from the GPO on O'Connell Street in Dublin for a day trip to Knock shrine and basilica, in Co Mayo. The coach, which also picks up at the Spa Hotel in Lucan, at 8.20 a.m., costs £15 (01-8733356).

Nightlight

Alone It Stands, by John Breen, is back for another run, at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Even though the play is about rugby - Munster's 1978 win over the All Blacks, to be precise - it will have you falling around with laughter. Good enough to see twice. You can book on 01-6777744.

Highlight

"At Boolavogue as the sun was setting . . ." You know the rest, so now visit the home of Father Murphy and the Garden of Remembrance at Ferns, in Wexford, just off the N11. The Father Murphy Centre is also a recreation of the farmstead as it looked in 1798.

I'mbored

Mara Beo, also known as Oceanworld, in Dingle, Co Kerry, has two new sharks. One is a blacktip reef shark, the other a whitetip reef shark; each is a metre long. They share a tank with morays and red lion fish (066-9152111).