With the Corn Uí Mhuirí now at quarter-final stage, Denis Hurley runs the rule over eight talents who have impressed in the campaign.

The Gigginstown House bull sale last Saturday scaled new heights, with a purchaser from West Cork, John Applebe, describing the sale as “another step up”.

Irish Rowing — and those involved in the sport in Skibbereen — were yesterday celebrating an impressive medal haul from the World Cup Regatta in Belgrade.

WITH our backs to the Town Hall we set off down Main Street, keeping to the left pavement. Skibbereen is, arguably, the most ‘typical’ of West Cork market towns, little changed in the last century.

The recent bad weather means there will be a host or rearranged games taking place this weekend in the leagues and cups.

A TOWN ravaged by last year’s winter floods is setting up a national body to help and lobby for flood-risk communities.

A PRICE drop of between 25% and 30% — a hugely significant €150,000 —has been applied to the last couple of big houses on Skibbereen’s posh Baltimore Road.

LAST year’s beaten finalists St. Brendan’s, Tralee CBS, Limerick Colleges and newcomers DLS Macroom are the only schools definitely through to the knock out stages of the Corn Uí Mhuirí after Christmas.

IT’S a busy weekend for the Skibbereen club. Their juniors contest the divisional football championship final this afternoon against Gabriel Rangers in Rosscarbery (4.45pm) and tomorrow the seniors travel to Drimoleague to play Dohenys in the quarter-final of the county championship.

ALL eyes yesterday were on Enniskeane, where Na Piarsaigh lined out against O’Donovan Rossa in the Evening Echo Cork SFC with three Ó Ailpín brothers in the black and amber - Teu, Aisake and All-Ireland hurling captain Seán Óg.

TONIGHT: SFC: St. Nicks v O'Donovan Rossa at Newcestown, 7.15 p.m. BOTH sides are without key players which should make it wide open.

St Brendan’s 1-12 St Fachtna’s 1-9

FOR the second year in a row, St. Brendan’s College, Killarney are on the brink of failing to qualify for the knock-out stages of the Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí.

CITY club Na Piarsaigh are the only side capable of breaking west Cork’s stranglehold on the Permanent TSB Cork county senior football championship.