UCD put one foot in the quarter-finals of the Fitzgibbon Cup thanks to this surprise win away to UCC.

LATEST:Health Minister Simon Harris has said that he is open to a further review on the issue of cath labs in the South East.

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IT Carlow 2-20 UCC 1-20 (AET): Stephen Maher hit 11 points as IT Carlow reached their first Fitzgibbon Cup final at the expense of UCC in Dangan.

UCC were given every chance to bring this Sigerson Cup semi-final to extra-time. They squandered the lot and so St Mary’s will contest their first decider in 24 years this afternoon.

The hospital overcrowding crisis is showing little sign of abating with nurses claiming over 500 people did not have a bed yesterday and the HSE stating in future more people needed to be vaccinated against the flu.

A husband and wife were killed in a head-on collision in Cork yesterday evening.

Latest: Gardaí say they are not treating as suspicious the discovery of an injured teenage girl on a dual carriageway in Cork.

This picture from the Irish Examiner photographic archive relates to a camogie game reported in the Cork Examiner on March 25, 1916.

When Róisin O’Sullivan held aloft the O’Connor Cup in March of 2012, UCC’s first in 22-years, the expectation was the Western Road nursery would enjoy a prolonged stay at the summit of third-level ladies football.

Tomás Clancy is chasing his own piece of history this weekend.

Fitzgibbon Cup Group B - UCC 1-14 UL 1-14: This certainly didn’t feature in the script, Jason Forde’s injury-time point bringing the curtain down on UCC’s Fitzgibbon Cup involvement. 

UCC 3-19 GMIT 0-8: The sight of Conor Lehane, Alan Cadogan and Shane O’Donnell being clapped off the field midway through the second-half painted a most accurate picture of this stroll in the park for UCC.

A family were keeping a vigil at the bedside of their daughter, 11, at Cork University Hospital, after she was critically injured when a tractor front loader fell on top of her.

"We never gave up and we never will. We know she knows we’re here. She knows we’re looking after her."

UCC captain Paul Geaney says the semi-final win over Maynooth with only 13 men provided the belief to claim the scalp of Sigerson Cup favourites UUJ in Saturday’s decider.

Resilience, belief but most of all heart — 13-man UCC ticking all three boxes in defying their underdog status and securing a place in this evening’s Sigerson Cup decider.

Gardaí are investigating a serious collision in Cork which has left a pedestrian in a serious condition.

The new lord mayor of Cork ignored a large vocal protest last night and vowed to review city centre parking policy and advance plans for a new food emporium for the city.

Graham Norton has been conferred with an honorary doctorate at UCC today.

The Minister for Health James Reilly has said no acute hospital will close as a result of the reorganisation of hospitals.

A mother of six, aged in her 80s, has died following a house fire at Macroom, Co Cork.

A man has been hospitalised in Cork after he jumped over a railway bridge while fleeing a car crash.

THE HUSBAND of a Cork GP who died from a brain aneurysm, days after being diagnosed with migraine, has said she was a “wonderful wife and mother”.

The HSE has said it is not in a position to publish accurate figures on bed closures ahead of the findings of a nationwide audit of hospitals.

I THOUGHT I heard some arrogant things said on TV over the last number of years but I think two of the panel members on the recent Vincent Browne TV show must now receive the prize trophy for arrogance.

Bus Éireann has today outlined alterations to services in Cork during royal visit this Friday, May 20.

A GARDA technical team will continue to carry out a forensic examination of the firebombed house in Cork which claimed two lives of a young woman and her five-year-old nephew.

A YOUNG mother who perished in a suspected firebomb attack in Cork had been assaulted in her own home in recent days when it was broken into.

The number of patients waiting on trolleys for a hospital bed was at its worst last year.

STRICTER drink-driving laws or a shortage of money for socialising outside the home may be linked to the increase in traumatic brain injuries following alcohol-related falls, an injury expert has said.

People must help each other through the big freeze as temperatures are set to plunge even further, it was warned today.

The arctic conditions gripping the country are showing no signs of easing as Met Eireann warn that further snow showers will affect many parts of Leinster and east Munster today and tonight.

AN audit of Mallow General Hospital must inquire into some aspects of Cork University (CUH), from where it has taken some of the workload, according to the Labour Party as they seek a meeting with the health watchdog, HIQA, to discuss the issue.

THE Irish Management Institute and UCC are understood to have signed a draft completion memorandum that should see the institute fully merged with the Cork university in the coming months.

THERE are several mouth watering clashes in the Munster Junior Cup while a couple of games that will have a big bearing on the relegation places in the top two divisions will also take place.

A MAN in his 40s was fatally shot in a Cork city suburb last night, in an attack which had all the hallmarks of a gangland hit.

TEN UCC students will be honoured for their sporting achievements tonight as the Cork university celebrates one of their most successful sporting years in modern times.

HOSPITALS will be penalised financially for failing to refer patients to the National Treatment Fund (NTPF) for surgery, Health Minister Mary Harney has warned.

PATIENTS waiting for outpatient appointments with consultants are facing queues up to 18 months long as hospitals deal with an unplanned surge in numbers.

IRISH women’s hockey coach Gene Muller yesterday announced his squad to face Scotland in a three match series in UCD at the weekend.

CONTRACTS for Health Minister Mary Harney’s contentious private hospital plan could be signed in April, just a matter of weeks before the general election.