The setting up of a life-saving community first responder (CFR) group on the outskirts of Cork City could become a template for the roll-out of similar groups across the country.

Ask Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages.

Cork producer Fionn Greger has served his time on blockbusters, but was happy to scale down for an abortion-related drama, writes Esther McCarthy

Trish Dromey finds a home that could suit first-time buyers’ budgets.

The visit of Griffith Swords Thunder for their Men’s Super League clash with UCC Demons will attract a bumper crowd to the Mardyke Arena on Sunday.

Last weekend, the hard work of members of Glanmire Macra, Knockraha Macra and Cork City Macra paid off as the long-awaited ‘Hit the Diff’ Vintage Car and Tractor Run took place.

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Basketball: Travelodge Swords Thunder got a timely boost before Friday night’s mouth watering National Cup semi-final against C & S UCC Demons when defeating UL Eagles 77-62 in the Men’s Premier League.

Killester were crowned Men’s Premier League champions after a comfortable 63-44 win over Bord Gais Neptune at Upper Glanmire yesterday.

Killester will be crowned men’s Premier League champions if they beat UL Eagles tomorrow and Bord Gáis Neptune on Sunday.

This is one of the most crucial weekends in the men’s Premier League with joint leaders C&S UCC Demons and Killester still on track for the title showdown on March 2 at the Mardyke Arena.

The world’s number one pitch & putt player yesterday confessed to driving three men to and from the scene of a robbery at a brothel in Cork.

Anyone who has been to Upper Glanmire or the UL Sports Arena to watch the two most dominant forces in women’s basketball tussle each other won’t have been as wide-eyed as the casual observer, held in thrall by UL Huskies and Glanmire at the National Basketball Arena last night.

UCC Demons warmed up for Friday’s National Cup final against Dublin Inter with an impressive 80-73 win over UL Eagles in the men’s Premier League.

Team Montenotte coach Paul Kelleher is hoping his side can maintain their recent rich vein of form in the Women’s Premier League when they entertain Killester at Upper Glanmire tomorrow.

Defending champions Bord Gáis Neptune will be without key point guard Roy Downey for tomorrow’s Premier National Cup quarter-final against DCU Saints at Neptune Stadium.

A huge blaze was burning above Cork last night after a recycling centre in Glanmire caught fire.

A Cork mother says her family is at breaking point because her son’s primary school will only teach him for one hour a day.

Belfast Star have withdrawn from the Nivea For Men’s SuperLeague.

FURTHER reductions in price should entice viewers to no 43 Ross Ard in Upper Glanmire, a large detached property that’s now down to €370,000 to sell.

BEING prepared to go a couple of miles outside the city can have its benefits.

JUST three of these large detached homes in Upper Glanmire, Cork, are being built and one remains to be sold at a guide price of €615,000 through Donal Collins of Global Properties.

GARDAÍ are confident they will be able to prosecute a self-styled events manager, who allegedly owes more than €200,000, following a debacle over organising school debs.

FARMERS in east Cork have rejected Glanbia Agribusiness plans to revamp their branch network, and have demanded the group stick to a 2005 commitment to retain retail branches at Castlelyons, Glenville and Tallow, and to equip them fully with services for farmers.

FRAUD Squad detectives are expected to re-interview, within the next two weeks, the man at the centre of the debacle over the Cork schools’ debs functions.

THE red carpet was rolled out last night for the first of thousands of teenagers caught up in the €200,000 debs ball debacle.

THE man at the centre of the debs ball garda inquiry may owe in excess of €300,000, and today marks the contract deadline for him to pay €80,000 to the Silver Springs Moran Hotel.

THE Garda Fraud squad was closing in on an events organiser last night who allegedly took almost €185,000 from thousands of students for graduation balls he failed to book.

ANGRY parents in a Cork village have said their children’s lives will be put at risk by drivers trying to dodge paying tolls on the Fermoy bypass after it opens on October 2.

GARDAÍ believe they know some of the route travelled by a young woman who was abducted by a man on Monday in Co Cork.

AND they’re off. The first new homes launch of 2005 around Cork city is a batch of just under 100 homes at Ashmount Court, Silversprings.

THE publicly-quoted building firm McInerney's have housing developments on the go all over Ireland, and beyond.

THE Automobile Association has welcomed news that the National Roads Authority is studying a plan to ease traffic at the Dunkettle Interchange, in Cork, which feeds the Jack Lynch Tunnel.

BUSES for primary and secondary school pass just outside the door of this detached bungalow in Upper Glanmire, Co Cork, and its a major plus for country living. So says auctioneer Noreen O’Sullivan who is charged with the sale of this four to five-bedroomed property on the perimeter of the Greater Cork area.