Mayo aren’t the only team in Ireland trying to end a famine, you know. Some club teams in the Rebel County enjoyed reaching the promised land last weekend, as Michael Moynihan found out 

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Iarnród Éireann’s plan to introduce more unmanned stations could seriously impact elderly passengers.

“Tis a great little country” a judge remarked after being told a man with over 100 convictions who was found boarding a train in Killarney for Banteer in Co Cork with a new bike he had just stolen from a shop in the Kerry town’s High Street would be able to go back home on the train on a free travel pass.

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Sister clubs Lyre and Banteer are seeking a “clearly defined and agreed written plan” for the future of Cork GAA, and have called on other clubs to hold special meetings so that members’ views can be aired.

On Tuesday last if you happened to be at Kanturk mart, you would have found a mart yard packed with jeeps, trailers and trucks, and mart pens full of quality weanling stock.

Cork manager Kieran Kingston has sounded a pragmatic note ahead of this weekend’s NHL clash with Dublin.

Cork have made two changes to their starting team for Saturday’s All-Ireland intermediate hurling decider against Galway.

As Mayo manager James Horan anticipated, Joe McQuillan has been appointed to referee Sunday week’s All-Ireland football final.

A group of families in a north Cork village are suing a wind farm operator in a landmark case, claiming the huge turbines are adversely affecting their health.

Conor Mortimer has been dropped from the Mayo team to face Leitrim in this weekend’s Connacht semi-final.

Muskerry became the first side to exit the divisions and colleges section of the Cork County SHC as Cork IT were far too strong for them at Riverstown last night.

SOME 41 acres of grassland within the development boundary of Banteer, Co Cork, hits the market this week for auctioneer Dan Fleming.

TO appreciate the scale of William Egan’s achievement in bagging a starting spot for Cork next Sunday, you have to understand where he has come from.

NEW Kerry U21 coach Eamonn Fitzmaurice has moved quickly to put an impressive back-room team in place for next season — including former Munster rugby forward John O’Sullivan as physical trainer.

HORSEPOWER of a different variety will reverberate at the Tralee Racecourse tomorrow for the Tyre Stop Kerry Rallysprint.

BANTEER’S Curate’s House, in north Cork, is being sold to fund repairs of the older, listed building, the local Catholic Church’s parish priest’s residence, which is next door to St Fursey’s church.

A YOUNG couple will be hoping to get their forthcoming marriage off on the right track.

LAND that’s “as good as you’d get in Banteer” is new on the market with local agent Micheal Thornton of DNG Micheal Thornton.

A MERE four years in GAA existence, and Dripsey find themselves within touching distance of the honour they crave.

ALLSTAR Nicholas Murphy returns to the Cork team for Saturday’s Allianz NFL clash with Dublin at Parnell Park.

COLIN CORKERY, Brendan Ger O’Sullivan and Nicholas Murphy have been given starting places on the Cork team to meet Clare in Saturday’s Bank of Ireland, All-Ireland SFC qualifier at Cusack Park, Ennis.