Cork got their Littlewoods Ireland Division One camogie league campaign off to a winning start at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

All-Ireland champions Cork were the big winners at the Camogie All-Stars Awards, sponsored by Liberty Insurance, on Saturday night.

CAITRIONA COLLINS scored a goal and six points while Minor star Saoirse McCarthy added four from play as Cork put the agony of two consecutive defeats at the last hurdle behind them to become Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie champions.

The Cork intermediate side have travelled a longer road than most to reach Croke Park this September.

The first ever Irish off-shoot of the long running Insomnia Gaming festival will take place in Killarney in June.

Cork camogie players affected by the regrading controversy will have their applications to line out at intermediate level reconsidered by the Camogie Association after a dramatic u-turn by top-brass on Thursday night.

Cork 1-12 Limerick 0-10: Cork, aided by key substitutions, regrouped sufficiently in the closing stages to qualify for the National Camogie Division 1 league final against Galway, after seeing off a persistent Limerick at Charleville yesterday.

Noel Gallagher is confirmed to play at the NME Awards 2012.

Lady Gaga took home four awards from the MTV EMAs in Belfast tonight.

Evanescence are heading in a synth-pop direction, it has been revealed.

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee has leaped to the defence of troubled pop star Britney Spears following a hurtful web video soundtracked by one of the band's hits.

James Blunt and Corinne Bailey Rae are among those tipped to be named Grammy Award nominees at a US ceremony to announce shortlisters later today. Rae is also expected to attend the announcement ceremony.

Amy Lee of the Grammy-winning rock band Evanescence has returned home for the final show of the band's latest tour.

Amy Lee and her band, Evanescence, are surviving without guitarist and songwriter Ben Moody.