Former Munster rugby player Barry Murphy and his pals stumbled into careers in music, he tells Ed Power

Lovers of craft brews will be saying cheers to a new festival in Cork this Easter which will also feature locally produced artisan food and toe-tapping live music.

Michael Cheika thought twice before allowing his Wallabies wander down Killiney Hill and into Dalkey village on Tuesday evening.

The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival got into full swing last night on a weekend which will see almost 1,000 musicians from 18 countries performing in various venues around the city.

Increasing hopes of sunshine enhance a hectic June bank holiday weekend in the south-west. Forecasters are pointing to ‘reasonably fine weather’ which should attract large crowds to a plethora of festivals, exhibitions and other exciting events through Cork and Kerry as well as the Mid-West.

Eight members of Clare's 2013 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship title-winning team have won places on the 2013 GAA/GPA All-Stars Hurling team, it has been confirmed.

Cork stakes its claim as Europe’s jazz capital this weekend, with some of the world’s biggest names in funk, soul and blues in town for the 35th Guinness Jazz Festival.

Electric Picnic organisers have today revealed which bands would be playing on each day of the festival.

Darren Sweetnam is already known as a jack of all trades, having played underage hockey and badminton for Ireland and breaking into the Cork senior hurling team before he’d sat his Leaving Cert.

Business people in Tralee are being asked to dig deep to support the town’s annual rose festival, which is reckoned to be worth €7m to the local economy.