Cairde Chorcaí is to host a membership launch next Monday in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, with current and former Cork players and managers in attendance along with new board member Joanne O’Riordan.

Ted Owens, chair of new Cork GAA fundraising body Cairde Chorcaí, says the organisation will work with the Cork County Board to help with team costs that are becoming “unsustainable”.

The board of directors of the company intended to manage the affairs of Pairc Ui Chaoimh has yet to meet, almost five months after it was announced.

The fundraising organisation founded two years ago to provide additional resources for the Cork senior footballers is to be renamed and relaunched in the coming weeks, with a new, wider-ranging brief.

A statement from a group purporting to be Continuity Sinn Féin (CSF)/Continuity IRA (CIRA) has said it has decided to disband and end its "futile" armed campaign.

THE Government is to pay over €2 million toward building a protective shell around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor, it emerged yesterday.

The Government is to pay more than €2m towards building a protective shell around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor, it emerged today.

The draw for The UEFA Cup First Round is as follows: