Cork's Sean Powter and Niall Grimley of Armagh have been confirmed as the final two tourists for the upcoming International Rules series.

Denis Walsh’s life, so many ways, has been a weave of Cork and Waterford.

A monument is to be constructed in a north Cork town to honour a Tipperary man who set a world record after being buried alive for 61 days.

Clogheen make its claim to be the "Hidden Heart of Ireland".

Confidence. That’s been the key. Granted, there have been other subtle improvements, but none as profound or important as the collective confidence of this Tipperary squad.

Ryan, 5, was on holiday when he was hit by car’s wing mirror

THOSE with long memories may recall the time when Ronald Reagan came here in 1984. It was a time of celebration as he visited his ancestral home of Ballyporeen, Co Tipperary.

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.

Saddle up to get a view of our magnificent landscape. There is simply no better way to appreciate our country says Dan MacCarthy

There was an echo of Ballyporeen when the former first lady of the United States, Nancy Reagan, was laid to rest beside her husband Ronald in the grounds of his presidential library in California over the weekend.

While taoiseach in 1982 Charles Haughey fulfilled the invitation to the White House for St Patrick’s Day that had been extended to his predecessor Garret Fitz-Gerald. Mr Haughey then invited the president to Ireland on a state visit.

An argument over money is believed to have been at the centre of a serious assault which has left a 66-year-old man fighting for his life in hospital.

A man has been arrested after an attack in Co Tipperary left another man in a serious condition in hospital.

Tipperary 1-16 Clare 1-15

Fears are growing in a Co Tipperary town that they are about to lose one of two ambulances bases they were given as part of a High Court agreement when their local hospital was downgraded.

Father of three Harry English has been called six times for a double lung transplant over the last two years but none were suitable.

ANYONE who has ever known anyone with an Irish wolfhound declares an Irish connection for St Patrick’s Day.

Exploiting the US president’s Irish ancestry helped Ireland retain its influence on Capitol Hill, writes Ryle Dwyer

Just over three million Irish people are eligible to vote in next Saturday’s children’s referendum.

The late Fine Gael leader and taoiseach Garret FitzGerald used a close ancestral connection with US president Ronald Reagan to help sway Margaret Thatcher towards the Anglo-Irish agreement.

A new documentary has revealed that an attempt was made to attack the US President Ronald Reagan, during his historic visit to Ireland.

ST COLMAN’S, FERMOY were easy winners against Abbey CBS in this Munster Colleges S‘B’FC semi-final (Corn An Uachtarán) in Ballyporeen yesterday.

ON an afternoon when young Michael Quinlivan offered a glimpse into the future for Tipperary football, it was a more established forward who eased the Premier County into the McGrath Cup quarter-finals.

FORMER Miss Ireland and social columnist Amanda Brunker will no doubt be hitting a few high notes when she joins seven other celebrities taking the reins of GAA teams for the hit RTÉ series Celebrity Bainisteoir.

DEVELOPMENT land with agricultural potential scored well at auction last week, when 11.5 acres near Kilcummin village made just under €18,700 per acre at auction.

Barack Obama, will be the most heavily protected US president in history when he comes to Ireland on Monday, in contrast to a visit nearly 50 years ago, says TP O’Mahony

A FARM at Curragh More, Mitchelstown is a new market entrant with John Paul Sheehan of Lisney, who’s selling the 29-acre holding on the border between Cork and Tipperary by auction next month.

THE British family history website Ancestry.co.uk today launches a collection of 19th century historical Irish records, to help Irish family historians and the estimated 80 million people worldwide of Irish descent to explore their heritage.

TRIBUTES flowed from all quarters at the ploughing championships for the Irish Examiner’s Agribusiness Correspondent Ray Ryan whose colourful 48-year career in journalism is drawing to a close.

OFFICIALS in South Tipperary have launched an investigation after a match was abandoned in the division for the fourth time this year.

DEFENCE Forces personnel will take part in a major military exercise in South Tipperary and north Cork next week.

A FARM with the most north-easterly field in Co Cork hits the pre-Christmas property market with Michael Barry, of Dick Barry and Son, Fermoy.

TED Kennedy wasn’t Jack and he wasn’t Bobby but, despite growing tarnished and growing old, he achieved more than both of them put together, particularly when it came to Ireland.

Gardaí are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman whose body was found in Co Tipperary yesterday evening.

AN Irish visit by Barack Obama is looking more likely following a conversation last night between the US president-elect and the Taoiseach.

PROPOSALS to build a €63 million gas pipeline to supply industries in the Cork region have been unveiled at an oral hearing.

A SPLENDID four-year-old gelding, Woodfield Indy, won the ridden hunter championship at the 92nd Dungarvan Show for Rosemary Connors, Woodstown, Co Waterford.

CIARÁN POWER (Pezula Racing) put five days of misery behind him to win the stage and put himself right up in contention for what would be a sensational third FBD Milk Rás victory at the end of a 112 mile trip from Skibbereen to Clonmel that wrought havoc at the top of the general classification sheet where Simon Richardson (Plowman Craven) now holds the overall lead and former race leader, Stephen Gallagher (An Post/Sean Kelly), moves back up to within 10 seconds of reclaiming pole position.

A brother of Finance Minister Brian Cowen has been hit with a tax bill of nearly €100,000 by the Revenue.