An urgent call for O negative blood donors has been made by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service after supplies dwindled to just four days because of the loss of a full day’s collection due to Storm Ophelia.

Fast Forward by Judi Curtin

Ray Ryan explains how O’Sullivan’s Bakery in Killorglin has managed to retain its timeless charm while evolving through the generations...

Christmas is traditionally a time of the year for adding spice to enhance food flavours and tickle the festive taste buds of consumers.

The O’Donovan brothers have made history and here's your chance to win a limited edition tee-shirt that we have no doubt will be a collectors item in years to come.

The Garda Commissioner is expected to issue a statement as early as today in a bid to quell controversy over her directions to lawyers over Sergeant Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins inquiry.

A new homes scheme from O’Flynn Construction is due on site any day now in Cork’s Kerry Pike, but it’s unlikely what gets launched, and at a yet to be determined price, will come for sale on anything like a quarter of an acre, with a double garage for good measure.

While progress was seen to be made in some areas of policing at Monday’s meeting of the Garda Authority, the O’Higgins commission’s efforts to access Garda documents exposed the old culture of secrecy, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

International best-selling thriller Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn last year helped one of the largest independent booksellers in the country, O’Mahony’s Booksellers, return to profit after two years of losses.

Sales at the Elden development in Cork’s Maryborough Hill have been chugging along nicely for developers O’Flynn Construction in the past year or two, across the board, from houses to apartments, with one of the latter, a penthouse, making €630,000 in 2014.

More than 20 years later, the 1994 Cork SFC final between Castlehaven and O’Donovan Rossa remains steeped in local lore.

Des O’Sullivan finds considerable variety on display at Woodwards upcoming event.

You could probably assemble your own Davy Fitzgerald/Clare discipline piece at this stage. If you need help, just root around in this bag — letter, players, statement, Banner, humiliation, breach, policy — and put the words together in no particular order.

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WHEN illustrator Alan Corbett published the children’s comic book, The Ghost of Shandon, in 2012, he felt he was a lone voice in Cork. Since then, there have been milestones: Marvel artist Will Sliney’s Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cú Chulainn on O’Brien Press, and the recent anthology I’m Awake, I’m Alive by local independent publisher, Turncoat Press.

Des O’Sullivan on the McGrath family estate sale which offers something for all collectors.

Top TV entertainer and broadcaster Graham Norton spent some of his UCC college years living in a bedsit on Cork’s Washington Street above what was then O’Brien’s Ice Cream Parlour.

Examinership would undoubtedly be of benefit to the four insolvent Cork-based O’Flynn construction companies and for the benefit of their employees, the High Court has been told.

Plans to build a multi-million euro events and conference centre in Cork is in turmoil after one of two developers — O’Callaghan Properties — who were in the running pulled out at the final tender stage.

Since winning the Red Bull Bedroom Jam competition a year ago, Walking On Cars have been getting used to life in the fast lane. The last three months since the release of their debut EP As We Fly South have been particularly busy for the Dingle quintet.

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Budding journalists of the future were honoured yesterday at the inaugural awards ceremony for an educational project devised by the National Newspapers of Ireland.

Derry 3-12 Galway 3-12

TOMORROW (all games throw in at 2.30pm unless stated)

Sligo Rovers will be hoping to maintain their good league form when they travel to Terryland Park to take on Galway United tonight, kick-off 7.45pm.

Murray Ó Laoire Architects, which employs 127 people, has been forced into liquidation.

Sligo Rovers play their last home game of the season as they welcome Cork City to the Showgrounds in Saturday's eircom League of Ireland Premier Division clash, kick-off 7.45pm.

Cup holders Garryowen will have to wait until the second round to make an impression in the AIB Cup when they will travel to Lansdowne.

The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.

AFTER a week of speculation, Cork hurling fans glimpsed Setanta Ó hAilpín hurling again yesterday.

Páidí Ó Sé is to stay at the helm in Westmeath, it has been confirmed.

PÁIDI Ó SÉ was on a spit and Kerry were roasted, but amid the cackle of electricity that reverberated around Páirc Uí Rinn, the only real winner from last season’s opening night floodlit extravaganza in the Allianz Football League was the coffers of Cork’s County Board.

Setanta Ó hAilpín and John Gardiner are fit for selection by Cork’s senior hurling management team after coming through the Munster U21 final unscathed.