TEATIME wasn’t progressing too well that evening last week – negotiations with the two-year-old on blueberries as a viable dessert had broken down irrevocably, it seemed – when a half-heard comment at the end of the radio sports news seeped through.

MEDICAL sources said last night that a trapped nerve injurytypically produces numbness, pain or deadness in the limb.

A COUPLE of weeks ago, Shay Livingstone was chatting to a friend about his impending move from Cork to Galway.

WE’RE aware of the arguments from the other side before we even hear them outlined.

THE sports autobiography follows a generally predictable arc — promise, achievement, graceful decline — so it’s good to come across a book that breaks out of that strait-jacket.

WHEN the All-Ireland camogie champions began looking for ways to raise funds recently, they weren’t long hitting on a new idea.

THE Ballinacourty footballers are an experienced bunch who’ve dealt with plenty of heartbreak in recent years.

YOU know by now that Donal Óg Cusack is the new Cork senior hurling captain. Of course you do.

WE had our topic nicely selected for this corner well ahead of time: The GAA County by County, a typically handsome production by Con Collins and his colleagues at the Collins Press.

A COMMUNAL green area in a Cork suburb doesn’t look like an obvious theatre of dreams.