Bap had just finished recording his new album Reckless Heart when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The album will be released next month.

Lord of the Dance star Michael Flatley and his wife Niamh, are to be made honorary Corkonians.

¦ Castlelyons Home and Garden Club are hosting ’Flowers and Food for Christmas Entertaining’ at 8pm, on Friday, Nov 8, in Castlelyons community centre.

An man has pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive, or insulting language where he was described as verbally abusing a non-national on Barrack St, Cork.

A citywide teen mental health project will be launched in Cork today.

The two charities Páraic Casey was raising funds for by swimming the English Channel for have seen donations swell by thousands of euro in the aftermath of his death.

THE country’s most advanced palliative care centre and hospital threw open its doors for the first time yesterday to allow those who helped fund its construction to see how their money has been spent.

CHARLES Haughey died at his Kinsealy home, with his wife and four children at his bedside just before 10am yesterday morning.

Over 40,000 women took to the sun-laden streets of Dublin today some in search of glory and others for a hard-earned buck for their favourite charity.

TIGER WOODS leads a strong international contingent of golfers who have already committed to play in the JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am at Adare Manor next July.

A KERRY farmer who floored the opposition in everything from nappy-changing to cocktail-drinking is the new King of the Culchies.