If you’ve ever travelled the South Ring road that skirts Cork City, particularly on a weekend, you may have heard the engines scrambling and the occasional guttural roar from up behind the Kinsale road roundabout.

A teenager died on Christmas morning after the scrambler bike he was riding was involved in a head on collision.

Cork driver Matt Griffin and his AF Corse team-mates Duncan Cameron and Aaron Scott had to be content with sixth spot in the LMGTE category of yesterday’s 4 Hours of Imola, the second round of the European Le Mans Series that ended under the safety car due to incessant rain.

The Criminal Assets Bureau is expected to go to the High Court this week to begin the legal process to confiscate assets seized from the Kinahan crime cartel over three weeks ago.

In the dead of night, Susan Collins got the answer to her call. At 4.30am came the shuddering from the Garda helicopter low overhead.

Some 35 high-powered vehicles, nine Rolex watches, and €30,000 in cash, with a total value of around €1m was seized yesterday in an operation targeting a gang involved in a murderous feud.

A woman who operated a text-a-getaway driver service for burglars fell under the spell of other gang members, a court has heard.

SO THE fight will continue until the end but there was little to suggest that this performance at Bloomfield Road was not just the latest false dawn for this Arsenal team.

FORMULA ONE manufacturer Renault are understood to have held a board meeting in Paris yesterday relating to their involvement in the sport.

Toyota today confirmed they are pulling out of Formula One with immediate effect for financial reasons.

Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki have pulled out of MotoGP due to the economic downturn.

Rizla Suzuki’s John Hopkins set the pace in practice ahead of Sunday’s MotoGP in Shanghai.

Former MotoGP ace Max Biaggi will bid to beat old rival Valentino Rossi to Formula One when he tests for Midland today at Silverstone.

A jury in a Dublin murder trial has heard that when one of the accused was questioned by gardaí about the fatal shooting he allegedly said: "I’m fitted up, someone must have handed my name up. I can’t believe it."

Alex Barros capped a dominant weekend with victory in a dramatic Portuguese Grand Prix at a wet Estoril.

BLITZING the opposition with a superb run through the third and final stage, Wexford’s Liam Wall and co driver Tommy Kelly (Ford Escort) took a dramatic last stage win on the Cooney Engineering/Esso Tipperary Rally.

Two of Japan's biggest aircraft makers are in talks with Boeing over a deal to assemble passenger jet bodies in Japan.

Yvan Muller notched up his second win of the day at Mondello Park to move into a 27-point lead in the British Touring Car Championship.