The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of one of the biggest annual fundraisers for cancer support groups and charities in Cork.

Corofin are just 120 minutes away from becoming the first football or hurling club to win three All-Ireland senior titles in a row, but they still know how to celebrate their successes after Sunday’s Connacht final victory over Pádraig Pearse’s.

Upstairs in the Cork Institute of Technology student centre, a picture of the college’s 2009 Sigerson Cup winning team hangs on the wall outside Keith Ricken’s office.

Ireland South will be without any representation in Europe for almost two months as a marathon €1m recount gets under way.

A good festive deed has not gone unrewarded as donations have flooded in to help the daughter of a security guard who went above and beyond the call of duty at Christmas.

A soup kitchen in Cork City is to get an overhaul this Christmas thanks to hoteliers John and Francis Brennan who are calling on the public to donate key items such as tables, chairs and fridges in order to complete the transformation.

It’s going to be amazing. Work has started on one of the largest maize mazes in the country.

I see the Seanad referendum occurred last Friday, and there has been some criticism of the Taoiseach for not participating in a debate on same.

With only weeks to go before the next school term starts, the mother of a severely autistic teenager is still waiting to find out if her daughter will be deprived of the education and support services she needs.

SEÁN ÓG Ó hAILPÍN says he’d be willing to return to the Cork hurling panel but not while current manager Denis Walsh is in charge.

CORK’S Phoenix Street, and there are back streets like it in every town and city in the world, is unlikely to feature in any architect’s primer, at least in any positive way.

CARNACON and Inch Rovers will meet in the All-Ireland Club senior championship final for the third time in four years after semi-finals wins yesterday.

CORK’S city officials would like to make on-street parking more expensive than taking the bus, to encourage a switch to public transport.

CORK’S city councillors are poised to do a controversial U-turn on a policy of not rezoning sports land for development.

FORMER Cork football coach Larry Tompkins has urged County Board chiefs to appoint a new senior management team for next season.

CORK’S city councillors were under fire last nightafter they voted againstrezoning a site for a new gaelscoil.

CORK’S Simon Community had to turn 300 people away from its emergency shelter last year because it was full every night.

CORK’S local authority is to encourage the city’s 40,000 householders to consider installing solar energy panels on their roofs.

CORK’S city councillors are in line for major wage hikes while the city’s social welfare pensioners look set be hit with bin charges for the first time tonight.

CORK’S football selectors are to seek the co-operation of the players’ clubs ahead of planning for the All-Ireland qualifying round on June 7.