A Garda sergeant had to avoid a car driven at him when he intervened at the scene of a man arguing with a woman driver.

Double league and FAI Cup champions, Cork City, will be among the best kitted out teams in domestic football next season.

John Caulfield has pledged his future to Cork City for the next two seasons after last night confirming a new deal with the club.

Holders Cork City could be wearing a new kit if they reach the FAI Cup final this season.

Runaway League of Ireland leaders Cork City are to host a series of roadshows across the county to highlight the benefits of becoming a member of the supporters’ trust that owns the club.

A €9m FAI football centre of excellence planned for Cork has been earmarked as a training camp for teams involved in Euro 2020.

The first university-based sports law clinic of its kind in Ireland, which will provide free legal advice to people involved in sport, will be launched in Cork tonight.

Michelle Murphy looks at the dos and don’ts for teenagers looking for work and chats to some well-known business owners to get their advice for the so-called Celtic Tiger Cub generation

Cork City FC and its fans have welcomed councillors’ decision to rezone land for a €10m FAI project which will provide a centre of excellence for young players throughout Munster.

Cork City manager John Caulfield has expressed his delight at receiving the backing of the club with a new two-year contract.

Planning permission is expected to be lodged in September for a €10m FAI regional centre for soccer excellence in Co Cork.

A darkly dressed man rambling along the middle of the road at night gave a garda a kung fu-style kick to the chest and yesterday a four-month jail sentence imposed previously was suspended after evidence that he had attended alcohol rehabilitation.

A motorcycle garda who anticipated a potentially fatal accident and stopped traffic on a junction of the main Cork/Mallow road was seriously injured when struck by a stolen van, and yesterday, he was commended for his outstanding professionalism as the culprit got a 12-year jail term.

Thirteen fresh charges have been brought against a man accused of crashing a stolen car into a motorcycle garda and endangering his life.

Fran Gavin, the director of the SSE Airtricity League, has challenged the new female soccer entity in Cork — and their male counterparts — to reach the Champions League in the coming years.

A Cork man has been jailed for six years for raping a mother of two while she slept in the family home.

A Cork man has received a six year prison sentence for raping a mother of two while she slept in the family home.

Pre-tax profits at the country’s largest privately owned hospital group last year increased by 20% to €11.68m.

Noel Pyne reaches a remarkable milestone when he makes his 50th successive appearance in the South of Ireland Championship at Lahinch next Saturday.

Over 100 yachts took to Cork Harbour yesterday in a huge race to mark the final day of one of the country’s top regattas.

If anyone doubts that Ireland has more climate than weather, they should take a trip to Crosshaven, home to Cork Week 2012.

There was drama on and off the water during the second day of competitive sailing at Cork Week yesterday, with as much excitement on land as offshore.

There were more high spirits than high winds to set the first day of competitive racing off to a breezy start at Cork Week yesterday as sailors and landlubbers descended on Crosshaven for the biennial event.

Boats have already begun to sail into Crosshaven which this week hosts Cork Week, a biennial event of racing and rollicking that attracts hundreds of sailors worldwide to the Royal Cork Yacht Club.

Millions of euro are expected to be spent by visitors who will arrive in Cork in July to watch what is regarded as one of the world’s premier sailing events.

PROFITS at the country’s largest private healthcare company, Bon Secours Health System Ltd, rose by 80% to €9.7 million in 2010 up from €5.4m in 2009, according to information released by the group last night.

A HORSE trainer and a property developer are among a “secret” group of 17 people advising the Health Service Executive (HSE) on reconfiguration of health services in the South.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) believes planning permission should be refused for 1,210 houses on the outskirts of Cork City because it would lead to even further traffic congestion at the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange.

IRELAND’S five largest private hospital chains are set to be targeted by widescale strikes if staff are forced to accept “illegal” pay cuts of between 4%-10%.

A LEADING private healthcare group is to plough €100 million into massive expansions at its hospitals in Cork and Galway.

A FORMER nurse at a Cork hospital was fined €3,000 yesterday for stealing quantities of drugs from a medical store at the hospital and forging the signatures of other medical staff in the process.

CORK’S hopes of achieving an historic golfing double were dashed yesterday when they lost to Knock in the most dramatic of circumstances in the semi-final of the Bulmers Irish Senior Cup.

A CREW of intrepid Munster fans could yet launch themselves across a storm-tossed Irish Sea in a bid to make Saturday’s crunch Heineken Cup decider in Cardiff.

IRELAND’S Stephen Browne wrote his own piece of golfing history in Kazakhstan yesterday when he became the first winner of a professional golf tournament in the country’s history.

TWO great old warriors waged a titanic struggle in yesterday's Munster final of the Bulmers Irish Senior Cup at Muskerry before Dermot Morris carried the day for Limerick Golf Club by getting home at the third extra hole against Tom Cleary of Cork Golf Club.

Ian Guider

IT'S a family affair for Tramore GC as they go in search of a rare treble at this weekend's Bulmers Munster finals of the Irish Senior and Junior Cups and Barton Shield at Dungarvan GC.

CIAN McNamara, an 18-year-old Limerick schoolboy, has played himself into position to become the youngest winner of the Shell South of Ireland since Fred Ballingall in 1897, by reaching the semi-finals in impressive fashion at Lahinch yesterday.

IT isn't easy for players or spectators when the weather is as unwelcoming as it has been at Lahinch over the past few days.

BON SECOURS, the country’s largest private hospital and medical group, recorded a 350% rise in annual profits last year.

A CHRISTMAS DAY escapade of drink driving resulted in a motorist getting a three-month jail sentence yesterday.