Ambassador UCC Glanmire rolled back the years to stun champions Liffey Celtics 101-84 in the Hula Hoops Paudie O’Connor National Cup.

The Men’s Super League kicks off in earnest tomorrow with the big game of the weekend at Neptune Stadium between C&S Neptune and Keane’s Supervalu Killorglin.

With a quiet and lofty setting, you can truly hit the heights at Marianville, writes Tommy Barker.

A man who wielded a sledgehammer as he took part in the looting of a local supermarket during the blizzards of Storm Emma last year has been jailed for 18 months.

Bethany Home survivors have called on the Mother and Baby Homes Commission to release the details of additional burials it has found in relation to children who died in the care of the institution.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that operates Griffith College last year increased by 27% to €3.38m.

Cork could become an incredible city, a European gem, if developed properly. The city is loved because of its closeness to the water, to nature, and to history. The architecture and the historic buildings are complemented by the trees and the water. The fact that you have an island at the centre is also an added feature. The Government’s Project 2040 plans sound great and there are individuals and groups that have a vision for what the city could become.

Basketball Ireland has been informed that Griffith College Swords Thunder have been disbanded and will no longer take part in the Men’s Super League championship.

Tributes have been paid following the death of a “tireless champion” of the arts in Cork, barrister Jane Anne Rothwell, who was chairwoman of Cork Midsummer Festival for the last five years.

Quiet Lights Festival: Griffith College, Cork

Basketball stalwart Jimmy Diggins received a standing ovation when he was presented with Basketball Ireland President’s Award at the National Arena on Saturday.

Carolyn Moore showcases the most exciting new names in fashion

UCC Demons will be hoping to inflict more misery on champions Templeogue when the sides meet tomorrow in the Men’s Super League.

Maria Walsh in conversation with Hilary Fennell

Ireland, along with Germany and the UK, is embracing a major expansion of its apprenticeship system. And there are myriad routes to choose, writes Noel Daly

Tonal trends are tops for interior design, says Lorna Kee.

The visit of Griffith Swords Thunder for their Men’s Super League clash with UCC Demons will attract a bumper crowd to the Mardyke Arena on Sunday.

Although dwarfed in scale by its grandly sized neighbours this mews conversion comes with lots of quirky charm, writes Tommy Barker.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Profits at the company that operates Griffith College trebled last year to €2.5m.

A young Irish legal eagle has been selected to work on a US miscarriage of justice project which helped highlight the Steven Avery case featured in the smash Netflix series, Making a Murderer.

The company owned by model-turned-food writer and nutritionist Rosanna Davison saw a marginal decline in profit last year.

University College Cork was the big winner at the National Student Media Awards which were held in Dublin last night.

On Wednesday Griffith College hosted an audience with Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, the creators of the hit Netflix series, Making a Murderer.

From crypt zombies to crazed butchers and from chainsaw-wielding maniacs to deranged little girls, this year’s Nightmare Realm is, as ever, a sight to behold.

There’s an education in convenient city-centre living to be had at No 1 Mount Verdon Terrace, an 1830’s end-terrace period home. 

Wexford’s Katie Fitzhenry is confident that Ireland can progress from their group at this weekend’s global women’s rugby sevens tournament in UCD.

I know a man named Angel who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. During his incarceration, both his mother and the mother of his children died and he exhausted all his appeals. He was fated to die in prison without any chance of parole.

You come across them from time to time, inter-county Gaelic footballers who aren’t actually that interested in Gaelic football generally, Philly McMahon being a case in point.

Performing has been in my blood from the get-go. It has manifested in many different ways, from singing, to dancing and acting.

A Carlow woman who has been fighting to free her husband from a Greek jail in a campaign backed by the Irish Innocence Project has finally received some good news after their five-year ordeal.

David Langwallner director of the Irish Innocence Project and Anne Driscoll, the organisation’s project manager, talk to Michael Clifford about the project’s work in trying to right miscarriages of justice, where people have been convicted of crimes they did not commit

After exonerating Harry Gleeson, a Tipperary man wrongfully executed for a murder he did not commit, members of the Irish Innocence Project are working to prove more miscarriages of justice.

The framing of Harry Gleeson was a shameful episode in the history of Irish criminal justice.

The State has pardoned a man who was hanged 74 years ago for the murder of a woman.

The change of use of the former Marymount Hospice building at St Patrick’s Hospital on Cork’s northside, to a third-level college, is not exempt from planning requirements, An Bord Pleanála has decided.

CORK CITY will have a new landmark design building later this year, in one of it most prominent settings - half way up the vertiginous St Patrick’s Hill. A school redevelopment there has been designed by the winners of the 2015 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey.

Education Correspondent

Celebrating 40 years of Higher Education in 2014, Griffith College has developed a reputation for running some of the most effective, focused and successful undergraduate, postgraduate and Adult Education courses in the country.