The new boss at Providence Resources, Alan Linn, said he’s confident in the potential of the Barryroe well off the Cork coast, as he seeks to secure an “attractive partner,” despite the huge setbacks faced by the oil company last year.

Providence Resources is once again looking for fresh money, saying it is “considering its funding options” as it only has sufficient working capital to cover its costs through to the end of next month.

GAA boffins today finalised the most demanding club fixtures matrix in the GAA - Cork’s county championship schedule.

Providence Resources is understood to have formally begun the search for a new farm-out, or development, partner for its flagship Barryroe field off the Cork coast.

Shares in Irish exploration company Providence Resources jumped by as much as 12% after it announced that Tony O’Reilly - its chief executive since 2005 - has left the company; stepping down as CEO and resigning from the board with immediate effect.

Shares in exploration company Providence Resources plummeted 12% on it losing another high profile development partner for one of its offshore Irish drilling prospects.

Cork GAA chiefs have published its club-by-club rankings table which will form the basis for new county championship structures from 2020 on.

Providence Resources will, effectively, begin the search for a new development partner for its Barryroe oil and gas field as early as this week, if long-awaited funding from its existing partners fails to materialise.

How an environmentally efficient dairy farm can operate at a very high level of production efficiency and profitability will be demonstrated at Shinagh Farm in Bandon, Co Cork.

Providence Resources has raised the prospect of looking for new development partners at its flagship Barryroe oil and gas field following another missed funding payment deadline by its current partner.

Providence Resources is getting closer to requiring alternative funding sources for the continued development of its flagship Barryroe oil and gas field off the Cork coast.

The commencement of the long-awaited drilling campaign at the Barryroe oil and gas field off the Cork coast is expected to be pushed into next year.

Providence Resources has said it has received "further assurances" that a $9m (€8m) development loan to fund work at its flagship Barryroe field, off the Cork coast, is "in the process of being paid".

Irish exploration company Providence Resources is set to commence a long-awaited site survey of its flagship Barryroe field later this month after finally receiving formal approval from the Government.

Approval and funding delays could push a long-awaited multi-well drilling campaign at the Barryroe oil and gas field, off the Cork coast, into 2020, a UK broker has said.

TJ Sullivan, chairman of Drinagh Co-op, will succeed Peter Fleming as chairman of Carbery Group; while Paddy Ryan, chairman of Lisavaird Co-op, has been appointed vice-chair of the organisation.

Shares in Providence Resources have risen on the back of the oil and gas exploration company indicating that funds necessary to progress the development of its flagship Barryroe field, off the Cork coast, will be forthcoming.

Irish exploration company Providence Resources has said it will seek financial compensation from the Government should the Dáil pass into law proposed legislation targeting a ban on oil and gas drilling in Irish waters.

Shares in Irish oil and gas exploration company Providence Resources fell 16% on news of a further delay to a $9m (€8m) funding advance for its flagship Barryroe field off the Cork coast.

Providence Resources shares plummeted by more than 20% on the back of a further delay to planned drilling at the company's flagship Barryroe oil and gas field off the Cork coast.

The West Cork derby meeting of Carbery Rangers and Castlehaven is the stand-out tie in the second round of the Cork SFC following the draws at tonight’s county board meeting at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The Cork minor football team to play Kerry in tomorrow evening’s Munster championship round-robin fixture contains three players who featured against the Kingdom in last year’s provincial semi-final.

Farmers in a corner of West Cork are looking forward to a Christmas dinner dessert course of Five Farms Single Batch Irish Cream.

Providence Resources’ much-anticipated, multi-well drilling programme at its Barryroe field off the Cork coast has been delayed.

Global and national challenges are set to be explored at the local level at an inaugural autumn school in West Cork.

Carbery held open days for its suppliers and their families this week to mark 50 years since production commenced at the site in Ballineen, Co Cork.

Providence Resources has hit a second major setback in the Porcupine Basin after summer drilling at the Drombeg well 220km off shore failed to hit oil and has been abandoned. The shares, which had one stage plunged by a third, ended the session 16.5% lower.

One of the world’s largest oil companies, France’s Total has signed two commercial development deals with Irish exploration company Providence Resources – a move which sent the latter’s shares soaring as much as 11% yesterday.

Providence Resources boss Tony O’Reilly Jr has said landing a development partner for the company’s headline asset — the Barryroe oil and gas field off the Cork coast — remains the top priority despite a potential deal collapsing in the last few months.

Providence Resources and Europa Oil and Gas – two of the most active exploration companies in Irish waters – are confident of further deal activity after both landing development partners for assets they hold off the west coast of the country.

Irish exploration firm Providence Resources looks set to save around $2.5m (€2.3m) in additional legal costs, arising from its recently concluded legal battle with drilling services firm Transocean.

Petrel Resources — the Irish AIM-listed exploration firm — has reported a near 28% narrowing in first-half losses.

A number of so-called ‘super-majors’ — a term typically used to describe the biggest eight, or so, oil companies in the world — have shown interest in offshore assets held by freshly financed Irish explorer Providence Resources, its chief executive said yesterday.

Providence Resources chief Tony O’Reilly Jr has said he remains “hopeful” the company can land a long-awaited development partner for its flagship Barryroe field, in the Celtic Sea, in the next six months.

Providence Resources — the Tony O’Reilly Jr-led exploration firm — has announced plans to raise nearly $74m (€66m) in fresh funds via what is, essentially, a company saving share sale.

Troubled Irish explorer Lansdowne Oil and Gas has applied for a resumption of trading in its shares to take effect from Wednesday of this week.

Irish exploration firm Lansdowne Oil and Gas has shelved its sales process after the successful raise of £2.1m (€2.7m), allowing it to pay off debt and meet working capital requirements into next year.

A costly court ruling yesterday put the spotlight on the terms of the debt deal that Providence Resources struck with Melody Finance late last year, as the Barryroe oil and gas explorer led by Tony O’Reilly Jnr unexpectedly lost a multi-million euro legal dispute with an international drilling company over delays in the Celtic Sea.