Country came to town last Sunday as a tourist town celebrated its new streetscape after months of upheaval due to resurfacing and drainage works.

Elaine Murphy did all the running — but boyfriend David Mellamphy stole her thunder.

As she gets ready for her Clonakilty gig, Valerie June tells Ed Power why her bluesy sound shouldn’t be pigeonholed

Pressure is something Tyrone’s Kris Meeke reckons he has handled for most of his rallying career.

Andrew Purcell (Mitsubishi) is likely to be the barometer of the pace on Sunday’s Willie Loughman Forest Rally, the first round of the Valvoline National Forest Rally Championship.

As Culture Night kicks off in 900 venues around the country, Alan O’Riordan selects some of the best free offerings in Dublin, Cork and other parts of Munster

Cork camogie captain Anna Geary, who is also the city’s 2014 Rose, has backed a huge charity cycle in West Cork which will help boost the coffers of six charities.

A decision on the inclusion of the Quality Hotel West Cork Rally as a counting round of the Irish Tarmac Championship is still awaited.

Emotions will run high this Easter Weekend for Irish marathon runner Bobby Hilliard, ahead of his 26-mile re-run of the Boston Marathon course.

Boston Marathon official race photographer Liz Cardoso was just metres away from one of the two bomb blasts that rocked last April’s race, killing three and injuring more than 200 people.

MUSIC NEWS: Anybody holding out for a reunion of the White Stripes shouldn’t hold their breath.

It was in the mid-eighties when one Anne Herbert was reputed to be enjoying a meal in a San Francisco restaurant when she was suddenly inspired.

Cork colours did well at last Sunday’s Clonakilty Show — with a red and white Holstein winning a top championship.

For many, the Irish Tarmac Championship (ITC) is at a crossroads; for more, it’s going down a cul de sac and others, it’s on a journey to nowhere.

Knowing that every second counts, Midleton’s Daragh O’Riordan is favourite to win the Quality Hotels West Cork Rally this weekend.

LAST Saturday in Kiltoom was the type of county final experience Niall Daly has always dreamed of.

FORD’S challenger in the new look World Rally Championship, the Ford Fiesta RS World Rally Car, was launched at the Autosport Show at the NEC in Birmingham yesterday.

BUILD it, and they’ll come, organise it and they’ll run — and run it they did, more than 1,400 hardy souls and hardened soles turning up for a trinity of inaugural races, in the fortnight run-up to Christmas.

SEVERAL championships unfold over the weekend against a backdrop of well-subscribed entries. The Dunlop National Rally Championship curtain-raiser, the Abbey Court Hotel Nenagh Rally that also counts towards the Top Part West Coast Championship and the Dunlop Junior Championship, has attracted over 150 crews.

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

Without ever being under any real pressure, Donie O’Sullivan/Paul Nagle, driving a McKinstry prepared Subaru WRC, won the Quality Hotels West Cork Rally in Clonakilty by a comfortable margin.

The Swords/Athlone combination of Michael Barrable and Dermot O'Gorman won the Quality Hotels West Cork Rally by 10.7 seconds today in their Ford Focus WRC.

FILM buffs in west Cork are in for a treat this weekend with the holding of the inaugural Flux film and multimedia festival in Clonakilty.

MICHAEL KEOHANE and Austin McHale face their respective assignments in Donington Park and the Circuit of Kerry with a common theme – success in a British Championship.

A MINIMUM prize fund of €25,000 has been put up for this season’s Formula Ireland championship that will begin in Kirkistown on April 5.

AS the Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Championship enters the final third of the season at Oulton Park this weekend, results are becoming more crucial.

It's a case of home and away for Irish drivers this weekend, as they face into two days of rallying, racing, karting and autocross.