When AIB announced it was to stop cash services in 70 branches it was interpreted as another assault on rural Ireland

If you’re reading this you don’t need me to tell you that the sports coverage in this paper is the best in the country by some distance. That doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of a lot of hard work by a lot of different people. It was a privilege to be part of that.

Events these last few days in Tipperary and Waterford have shown that cold calculation is as prevalent in hurling as it is anywhere else.

A thoroughly decent and honest operator, the man from Cashel certainly deserved better after taking on such a difficult job.

You shouldn't have to shepherd kids away from merry cannabis smokes in the middle of town — children are as entitled to the freedom of the city as everybody else without experiencing a contact high

The city wasn't included in a recent report ranking cities all around the world according to liveability, so I'm just going to have to rank Cork myself — an entirely unbiased and objective appraisal, of course. Watch this space

Galway will be unhappy, to put it mildly, with some of referee Thomas Walsh’s decisions in that second half in particular, while their shooting will give them some autumnal nightmares

With Cork building upwards and with a focus on the riverside, should we be cognisant of views that may be obscured from the city as we look down the river?

A picture of a fast-food joint in Cork City in 1984 is like a portal back in time and should inspire us all to preserve images of the city as we know it right now. So get that smartphone out and get snapping

Some of the Cork players who came up the motorway on the team bus will hardly make that journey again. At the final whistle in Thurles a few of them lingered a couple of extra minutes on the field