James O’Donovan, Tim Young, Billy McAuliffe, and Aidan Murphy were the top four performers in Sunday’s senior men’s trials for the Irish road team at next year’s European championships in Germany.

A compelling Dr Harty Cup semi-final at the Fraher Field last Saturday ended in dramatic fashion, with Midleton CBS securing a last-gasp goal to deny a gallant De La Salle outfit.

It’s not everyone that has the President of Ireland attend their funeral, but Dr Maurice Hayes, who passed away at the age of 90 a couple of days before Christmas, lived enough for several men.

All national roads and all but a handful of regional roads in Co Cork are now passable, but work was still being carried out last night on 70 rural roads still blocked by fallen trees and 74,000 homes in the county remain without electricity.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland has 55 roads projects in 23 counties but securing funding for them is just part of the process in ensuring the proposals move from the planning stage to work beginning on the ground, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

More than 4,400 accidents and incidents were reported on the country’s busiest motorway, in a period of less than two years.

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Extensive fibreoptic cables are to be laid down in advance of the €100m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange to give motorists real-time information on the project.

It will be “challenging” to prevent major disruption for commuters during the €100m upgrade of the busiest road junction outside Dublin, admits Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).

Footballer, teacher, trailblazer - we remember All-Ireland winning captain Joe Lennon

A state agency this year expects to spend at least €5.3m on salt to keep the country’s road network moving during winter blizzards.

Barrow Rangers (Kilkenny) 2-14 Shanballymore (Cork) 1-15: Kilkenny’s Barrow Rangers advanced to the All-Ireland JBHC final after defeatomg Cork champions Shanballymore in Killeedy yesterday.

Motorists have been warned to take extra care on the roads as the first icy stretches appeared yesterday, causing a number of accidents.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has confirmed it will fund proposals to raise the level of a national road in Co Cork which has been closed to flooding for almost a week.

Sunday’s county SFC semi-final with Nemo Rangers in Páirc Uí Rinn (2pm) represents Carbery Rangers fifth appearance in six years in the last four.

Gaelic football has moved on, but the media and GAA officialdom are clinging to a past that has long since ceased to exist.

Remains of a 17th century house have been discovered during a €2.47m upgrade of a town’s main street, which has been dubbed “the worst in Ireland”.

Equestrian: The annual Tallow point-to-point meeting, run under the auspices of the West Waterford Foxhounds, was shrouded in a dense fog yesterday severely restricting visibility.

The National Roads Authority (NRA) has said that it has no problem renaming Cork’s South Ring Road after women who fought in the War of Independence, but for operational reasons it will still refer to it as the N40.

A dissident republican plot to target judges and police officers in Northern Ireland has been exposed by a covert MI5 operation, a court has heard.

Seven men have been remanded in custody in the North charged with a series of dissident republican terrorist offences.

Transport minister Paschal Donohoe has confirmed that the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork will not be tolled in the lifetime of the present Government.

A section of the M8 motorway will be closed next month to enhance drainage works amid concern that climate change could make the main Cork-Dublin road unsafe.

The death has taken place of Des Blair, a Cork music promoter who organised seminal grunge act Nirvana’s first ever gig in Europe.

Cork SFC quarter-final

Carbery Rangers 2-14 Castlehaven 1-08

Playing for pride might sound trite and defeatist but it has different and meaningful connotations for Ian Galvin as he gears up his New York team to face Mayo in Gaelic Park this Sunday.

Gardaí obtained a court order last night allowing them to carry out forensic examinations for a further 24 hours at an apartment block where a fire killed two men in their 30s.

The National Roads Authority (NRA) has confirmed that 126 manhole covers have been replaced on the M18 since last summer at a cost of €100,000.

Billy Morgan pointed to UCC’s rousing second-half opening as the crucial period in delivering the university’s 21st Sigerson Cup success.

The story of Sir Henrys and its famous Sweat night has been well told in the past. How a weekly dance night in the Cork venue grew into one of the best house events in Europe in the 1990s, attaining quite a reputation for its amazing atmosphere and the quality of music on offer.

Plans are being advanced for the creation of a €200m motorway joining Ringaskiddy in east Cork with the Jack Lynch Tunnel, because the EU designated the project as vital infrastructure.

The National Roads Authority has been accused of being ‘party poopers’ for removing flags and banners from motorways erected by Banner supporters as they prepare to move en-masse to Dublin for tomorrow’s All-Ireland replay.

ALL-IRELAND SFC SEMI-FINAL:

ULSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

An Bord Pleanála has given the green light to National Roads Authority (NRA) plans for a €100m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange.

New cameras linked to a computer system are to be installed in the Jack Lynch Tunnel early next year as part of a safety upgrade.

An investigation is to be carried out by the National Roads Authority and local authorities after one of the country’s busiest roads was shut down by floods that left thousands of motorists stranded for hours.

Only three of the country’s worst accident blackspots have been upgraded — a year after plans to fix the 60 deadliest road bends were trumpeted.

If you asked 100 Tyrone supporters to name their first choice team for this year’s championship match against Donegal, you’re likely to get 100 very different answers back.

The imp on my shoulder made an attractive suggestion here.

Owen Mulligan says he’ll have to ring Tyrone boss Mickey Harte this week to discover if his county career really is over.

Mickey Harte last night heralded a new era for Tyrone football, confirming a major overhaul of his squad and the departure of 11 established players.

MICKEY Harte is set to carry out a major overhaul of his Tyrone squad.

People who were detained against their will and abused in psychiatric institutions are also entitled to have their cases heard and to claim compensation.