Margaret Jennings discovers many older women are using extensions to give their long locks a boost, as the trend to go short wanes.

Eamonn Corcoran has urged Tipperary to rediscover a winning habit – or run the risk of being renowned as a team that can’t close out tight games.

Dr Con Murphy was on the train with John Corcoran after Cork played an All-Ireland senior football semi-final a few years ago. The season doesn’t matter. The memory does.

A group of Romanians, mainly based in Galway, had been linked to Irish Travellers in an utterly dishonest scam of staging car crashes to mount fraudulent personal injury claims, a judge stated yesterday.

FAI FORD CUP THIRD ROUND REPLAY

The last time Cork and Clare faced each other in championship with the Banner having won silverware the previous year was the 1999 Munster final.

Bohemians 2 Drogheda United 2

Of the 40 players who saw game-time in the 2012 Fitzgibbon Cup final between UCC and Cork IT, 13 are now part of Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s Cork senior hurling squad.

Since 2008 Niall Corcoran has soldiered with the Dublin senior hurlers and after watching his native Galway take provincial honours last year, he was delighted to secure an historic Leinster SHC success with the Dubs yesterday.

Former Cork star Brian Corcoran believes the county’s relegation from Division 1A will not be a massive blow in terms of Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s side’s overall aspirations.

Between 1991 and 2006 Cork held Tipperary in check in senior hurling, with the Premier County forced to play second fiddle when the two sides met.

St Fergal’s kept their hopes of a Leinster senior/junior double alive when they scored a good win over Ballyhale’s Scoil Aireagail at Castlecomer on Saturday.

Ireland’s U18s suffered late heartache against Wales in last night’s friendly at Ferrycarrig Park in Wexford.

Dublin hurler Niall Corcoran believes that success on the provincial or All-Ireland stage for a club team from the capital is required in order to bring Dublin hurling to the next level.

THREE of the country’s leading hurlers are strongly opposed to the new Allianz Hurling league format.

ROSCOMMON captured their 12th Connacht minor football title and first since winning the 2006 All-Ireland title with an easy win over a very disappointing Galway yesterday.

THERE’S a huge emphasis on the coastal areas of the country for holiday and retreat homes, and the interior heartland is sometimes ignored.

THEY’RE not exactly flavour of the month amongst intercounty managers, but third-level sides are determined to leave their mark on the 2010 pre-season GAA fare.

WITH its runway jutting into the Atlantic Ocean, the approach to Sligo Airport is one of the most picturesque (and for nervous types, most hair-raising) locations of any Irish airport.

Cork selector John Corcoran believes that July's Munster final was evidence of the high standard of football which both the Rebels and Kerry have played this year and he expects more of the same brand of high octane football in Sunday's All-Ireland final.

Waterford 1-22 Tipperary 3-13

Cork 0-19 Limerick 0-18

THERE is a joke doing the rounds in Cork about having a few bob on both Liam MacCarthy and Sam Maguire residing on Leeside in late September.

Cork hurling manager John Allen has made several changes from the side that disposed of Down last time out for Sunday's visit to Semple Stadium to face Tipperary in the National Hurling League.

Troubled rocker Courtney Love is selling her New York apartment so she can start a new life in California.

FAI president Milo Corcoran has succeeded in removing Kevin Fahy from his position as honorary Treasurer.

Waterford 3-16 (25) Cork 1-21 (24)

FORMER two-times Texaco Hurler of the Year Brian Corcoran last night trained with the Cork senior side — two-and-a-half years after he retired from the game.

Tipperary defender Eamonn Corcoran will go before the GAC tonight buoyed by the support of Galway's Kenneth Burke.

TIPPERARY will be without Eamonn Corcoran, John Carroll and team captain Brian O’Meara for their crucial Allianz NHL tie with Clare at Cusack Park on Sunday.

Clare's David Forde has been drafted in to replace Eamon Corcoran in the Irish hurling-shinty squad to face Scotland on Sunday.

Dublin has been named as the sixteenth most expensive city in the world in which to buy a house in a new international survey.