County councillors representing north-west Cork have reacted angrily to the redrawing of electoral areas by the Local Electoral Boundary Commission, with a senior council official saying the fall-out from it “will present challenges” to the local authority.

Cork poet Bernard O’Donoghue is on the shortlist for next week’s TS Eliot prize. He tells Colette Sheridan why, though he moved to the UK many years ago, his home area still has such a presence in his poetry.

Council officials have been accused of ignoring villages in north-west Cork, which “are dying on their feet” because they are not being included in ambitious plans to tackle the housing crisis.

Willie Duggan has been on the Mitchelstown CBS staff since 1982 and, with over 30 years of service in the classroom and in promoting GAA amongst the school’s small student populace, today marks CBS’s biggest day in sport– its inaugural appearance in an All Ireland colleges final.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne will begin the quest to make Corn Uí Mhuirí history today, but their opponents will be writing a new chapter of their own.

More than 240 families renting council houses in North Cork will be feeling a lot cosier this winter following the announcement that insulation and draft-proofing works are to start on their homes.

Cork IFC: Cill na Martra 1-18 Mitchelstown 2-12

Ok, so it might have been a typo but you can never be too sure in Ireland.

Aidan O’Brien’s Coach House, who made a very promising debut when second at the Curragh, was taken from 4-6 to 2-5 in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Tipperary last night and won with any amount in hand.

It was a done deal as far as gardaí were concerned when they collared a young man who was trying to sell equipment he’d stolen on the internet.

A ten-day celebration of rural life is expected to generate economic activity worth at least €1 million in north Cork and east Kerry.

The North Kerry Harriers staged their annual Ballybunion point-to-point fixture on Saturday evening and Carrigtwohill owner/trainer Don Browne’s Cloneen Storm (11/10) lit up the seven-race session for many by registering a gallant front-running success under a well-judged ride from James Hannon in the open lightweight.

A gang has been using a simple but effective method of “fishing out” money from donation boxes embedded in church walls.

I might as well admit it early doors and put it up on the table.

Irish and Russian armies went toe-to-toe in musical battle yesterday, to the delight of more than 40,000 people who thronged Limerick for an international bands parade.

THIEVES are now targeting churches and grottos.

Farmers Cross

SHE started college when her prospects never looked brighter and finished when they never looked worse.

A FORMER New York policeman is set to launch a legal battle to reclaim some of Ireland’s greatest estates from their owners.

FOR a while there, it looked like War of Attrition might just pull off what would have been a heart-warming and unlikely postscript to a storied career in yesterday’s featured World Hurdle.

Donal Hickey on the role of trees in Irish history.

ROOKIE trainer, Eamonn O’Connell, was flying high after his Powerstation had landed the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Captain Christy Novice Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

A RETIRED plasterer died after a tragic accident while building a house for his daughter and her boyfriend.

LOCAL leadership in provincial Ireland has been important over the past 200 years and we owe much to the Christian churches for the parish structures they put in place.

A LIMERICK bachelor, who describes himself as a recluse, is a prisoner in his own country due to a passport refusal.

BATT ’is back in Ballincollig — and he told his supporters of 20 years last night they now have a voice at the top table.

SITES from as low as €12,000 and family homes, from €156,000 are on offer in north Cork.

THREE Fianna Fáil candidates in the so-called “constituency of death” will find themselves under even more pressure as a post office lobby group plans to urge people to vote against them.

THE skirl of the bagpipes echoed around the Co Cork village of Cullen yesterday as local people celebrated a notable success by a well-known pipe band on its 65th anniversary.

GRYFFON Cottage was built day one as part of an original barter: the stone for the walls was exchanged for a wooden wheelbarrow.

EXTRA gardaí, including the garda helicopter and two dog teams, are being drafted into Killarney for the annual Rally of the Lakes, during the weekend.

FIANNA FÁIL could lose its two Dáil seats in Cork North-West if all three candidates do not comply with a very tight voting pact, Deputy Michael Moynihan warned yesterday.

PHIL ENGLISH, winner of the highest accolade ever awarded to an Irish athletics coach working in the USA, will return home next week with 23 American High School cross-country athletes from Washington State.

ANGRY villagers have criticised Eircom for failing to fix a fault which has left them without the proper use of their phones for more than a week.

Bank Of Ireland Football Championship Qualifiers