The 60th annual Cork International Choral Festival took place at the weekend, with approximately 5,000 participants — the largest number it has ever had. Here are the results.

Following the six Cork county championship games at the weekend, the fourth-round ties and relegation play-offs are now decided in all but the SHC and IFC grades.

Cork defender Lorcan McLoughlin is hoping “common sense” prevails and Pat Horgan is cleared to face Kilkenny in the All-Ireland hurling quarter-final on Sunday week.

After Hurricane Irene in 2011, a couple of Bruce Springsteen fans were visiting the New Jersey Shore town of Belmar, a defining district of the so-called Irish Riviera.

Connacht champions Galway cruised into the last four of the 2012 TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football championship following a 12-point victory against Clare at St Brendan’s Park, Birr, on Saturday afternoon.

Kim Kardashian claims she never meant to hurt anyone by ending her marriage after just 72 days.

Clare 3-10 Fermanagh 1-12

THE draw for the 2011 Cork senior football championship, which pairs champions Nemo Rangers with Ballincollig, threw up two interesting west Cork derbies, featuring Ilen Rovers and Carbery Rangers, and O’Donovan Rossa against Clonakilty.

FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech has ignored the pleas of Zinedine Zidane and refused to pick his fit-again captain Patrick Vieira for the World Cup qualifying play-off against Ireland on November 14.

TOMMY BOWE admits his career has “really rocketed” as the British and Irish Lions prepare to launch him at world champions South Africa.

CHAMPIONS Sarsfields have been drawn against Castlelyons in next year’s Cork SHC, while four-in-a-row football winners Nemo Rangers renew rivalry with Ballincollig.

BUSINESSES are being urged to sign up to an online waste exchange which could divert tonnes of materials including packaging, disused office furniture and construction waste away from landfills.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT have been drawn against Galway IT in the first round of the Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup.

CORK should ‘vigorously oppose’ the re-organisation of the inter-county senior hurling championship because of the severe impact it could have on club games.

THE Irish Nurses’ Organisation (INO) has warned that A&E services will be stretched beyond breaking point in hospitals if an outbreak of influenza which is sweeping the country gets worse.

OVERCROWDING at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin reached new levels yesterday when ambulance trolleys had to be used to accommodate patients in the A&E department.

IONA, and Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of the Boeing company, has announced that IONA's Orbix and Orbix/E are serving as the integration broker technologies helping to power the delivery of high-speed internet connectivity services to mobile travellers.

Anna Nicole Smith says her new reality TV show will make people start taking her seriously as an actress.