Sporting organisations in Co Cork may have rates arrears written off because they have been previously charged for the whole of their buildings instead of just their bars, which are the only part of the premises generating income.

The GAA is to provide free cardiac screening to teenagers living near Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork city as part of an agreement secured over a planned €70m redevelopment of the stadium.

Eagle-Eye rather than Hawk-Eye will determine the fate of the GAA’s plan to carry out a €70m redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

An Bord Pleanála has rejected an application to build a new 170-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.

In what may be a first, a hurling club has banned the use of electronic cigarettes in its clubhouse.

When people heard that Denis Lyons, a former junior minister, had passed away, they immediately thought of his dedicated commitment to Fianna Fáil, the GAA, and the Irish language.

Four counts in Cork County Hall saw huge gains for Sinn Féin, a revival for Fianna Fáil, the obliteration of the Labour Party, and a palpable appetite for new candidates.

The chairman of Cork County GAA Board says the effects of the recession, coupled with a sustained erosion of services in rural areas, could lead to some adjoining parishes having to amalgamate their teams for Gaelic games to survive.

I have been monitoring the proposals for a conference centre in Cork City. This is a great opportunity, if we look at the greater scheme of things.

Members of Cork City Council are set to vote this afternoon on a proposed €30m revamp of Páirc Uí Chaoimh, which would see the construction of a new 50,000-seater stadium and a "centre of excellence".

CITY manager Joe Gavin has called on councillors to reject some of the GAA’s plans for a multi-million euro redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

THE Cork Business Association (CBA) has called on city leaders to ensure that 13 acres of land near Páirc Uí Chaoimh would benefit the entire city if it were sold to the GAA.

IT was inevitable that the increasingly bitter dispute between the Cork County GAA Board and the country’s representative hurlers would move towards a resolution at some point but it is a pity that it took so very long.

APART from antique nationalism, what have Fianna Fáil and the Cork County GAA Board in common?

CLOYNE GAA club has refuted media reports suggesting the club is split as a result of the ongoing impasse in Cork hurling. The club executive issued a statement yesterday evening which also stressed that the motion it put before the Cork county board was not intended to be critical of the board or its executive.

ALONG with much else, the Lisbon Treaty vote was surely an affirmation of the right of the individual to think and decide for him or herself whatever the intensity of the urgings from the institutions of State.

I FIND it most encouraging that the GAA and Cork City Council are seeking to develop Páirc Uí Chaoimh into a 60,000-seater stadium (Irish Examiner, October 17).

THE GAA has been criticised for refusing to allow a soccer club use its all-weather pitches for a tournament to commemorate a young man who died in a holiday accident.

THE Cork County GAA Board decision not to allow a vote on the opening up of Croke Park was correct and in accordance with rule and protocol.

IT’S hard to know which conclave was more important - the one in Rome which only had to decide a new Pope, or the one in Dublin to decide whether or not to open the most sacred temple in Ireland to the unconverted.

WHAT a shambles the Cork County GAA Board made of the Rule 42 proposals before the Croke Park congress last Saturday.

I THINK is it time that the Cork County GAA Board went outside the county for a new hurling coach.