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.

Comórtas Peile Náisiúnta na Gaeltachta returns to its roots in Gweedore this weekend.

WHILE the future of the Mission Hills World Cup was assured behind closed doors, Rory McIlroy continued playing his Pied Piper role as he and Graeme McDowell put Ireland into a share of the lead with two rounds remaining on Hainan Island in China.

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.

ANGLO Irish Bank has secured judgment orders totalling more than €65 million against three solicitors.

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.

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NOVEMBER is the money month in football: next week, a Deloitte report will reveal that Premier League earnings from overseas TV rights are on track to overtake the domestic contract, while in eight days, the Future of Football Conference takes place in London with one of the seminars entitled, ‘The Buying and Selling of Football Clubs’.

CUBA lay behind the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald and its agents provided the gunman with money and support, an award-winning German director has claimed in a new documentary film.

The draws for the Leinster Schools Senior and Junior Cup competitions have been made in Lansdowne FC tonight.

The Government is to pay more than €2m towards building a protective shell around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor, it emerged today.

Champions League half-time scores.