Companies exploring for oil and gas off the Irish coast say policies and regulations are needed to encourage a repeat the success of the Kinsale and the Corrib fields and prevent the Irish economy becoming reliant on energy imports via Britain.

Simon Prim is owner of Simon Prim Book Shop, Main Street, Kinsale, Co Cork, which sells second-hand books.

There were close to 10 transactions of Kinsale homes over €1m in 2019, writes Tommy Barker

Cork GAA chiefs have published its club-by-club rankings table which will form the basis for new county championship structures from 2020 on.

Go pack your bib and tucker

Irish drivers Kris Meeke (Toyota Gazoo Racing) and Craig Breen (Hyundai Motorsport) may have to park their own desire to win the Wales Rally GB to ensure their respective teams have the best possible platform to win the WRC Manufacturers’ title.

There’s your ideal shopping, and then there’s the shopping you sometimes have to do. I think it’s important that people don’t beat themselves up. Even the most informed of us and the best-intentioned end up in a supermarket at ten o’clock at night and that’s ok; we’re all busy.

Hoping to make it an even dozen, of €1m+ home sales with an Ardbrack Kinsale address, are the owners of No 12 Father McSweeney Terrace, and their selling agent Ron Kruger of Engel & Volkers.

The outstanding Tramore course once again proved a happy hunting ground for Limerick Golf Club over the weekend when they pulled off a highly impressive double in the Munster finals of the AIG Irish Senior Cup-Barton Shield and so qualified for the national finals to take place at Westport on September 20-22.

Kinsale must plan without star player John Murphy for tomorrow’s Munster AIG Barton Shield semi-final in Tramore.

Wheelchair users are set to experience the thrill of high-speed boat rides thanks to the delivery of new ‘inclusion powerboat’ on the south coast.

Kinsale RNLI were called out this morning to assist a yacht returning from the Fastnet Race held over the weekend.

Des O’Sullivan previews two sales in Co Cork featuring everything from fine furniture to modern Irish art.

It might be a bit tiresome, and very, very predictable, but the folk at Kinsale's Scilly have to live with an affliction. It is to do with the very address where they live.

While the majority of students across the country finished up their exams last week, this afternoon will see the official end of the 2019 Leaving Certificate exams.

Kinsale Tile and Interiors Store have added a new line of exciting products to their interiors range including a new lighting collection, mirrors, tables, sofas, luxury throws and cushions and some beautiful rattan outdoor garden furniture just in time for BBQ season.

Fitzgerald & Partners Accountants in Kinsale has rolled out a free app to help self-employed and SMEs manage their tax expenses and finances on the go. The firm launched the app on iTunes and Google Play recently to help attract younger customers to the firm.

Kinsale firm Blacks Brewery and Distillery believes it has come up with a way for investors to combine their love of Irish whiskey and a desire for a market bet.

Ailin Quinlan talks to Guny Patel, chairperson of the town’s Chamber of Tourism & Business and owner of the popular Kinari boutique.

No 8’s in show home condition in Kinsale’s Cluain Mara scheme at Farm Lane, reports Tommy Barker.

Three Cork sporting clubs have joined forces to offer supporters a ‘home fixture’ of a different kind — a new apartment.

An RNLI volunteer saved a life yesterday just days after qualifying as one of Ireland’s youngest helms.

A delighted James Sugrue was one of five leading Irish amateur golfers celebrating call-ups to an extended Great Britain & Ireland squad ahead of the 47th Walker Cup match against the United States at Royal Liverpool this September.

Food news with Joe McNamee

FOR many Corkonians of a certain vintage, pizza was ‘born’ in the very early ’80s, in Pizzaland on Patrick St, arriving near-simultaneously with next-door neighbour Burgerland, both ‘game-changers’ in the city’s fast-food dining culture.

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Kinsale captured the first green pennant in the club’s 106-year history when they beat Hermitage 3-2 in a heart-stopping finale to the AIG Jimmy Bruen Shield at Thurles.

If you see Cathal Butler and his Kinsale Golf Club Barton Shield team-mates bickering at the AIG Cups and Shields finals in Thurles this week, do not be alarmed, they’re just being friendly.

As part of the upcoming Words by Water literary festival, Alannah Hopkin has edited a collection of poems, stories and memories from the Co Cork town, writes Marjorie Brennan.

As Autumn storms herald the end of the main Sailing season, twin annual showdowns between various strands of the sport in Ireland are set to take place in Dun Laoghaire and Lough Ree over the next two weekends.

Ireland intend to take full advantage of playing for the Eisenhower Trophy on home soil this week after getting their men’s 2018 World Amateur Team Championships title bid up and running in style at Carton House.

He will only be released to play in the Eisenhower Trophy or the Olympic Games - that’s the understanding between John Murphy’s college in Louisville, Kentucky and Kinsale Golf Club where the availability of this year’s St Andrews Links champion is concerned.

Where once just Bandon was the last outpost beyond Cork’s city limits, a hockey revolution of sorts is spreading south and west of the county, giving optimism for further expansion.

Olivia Kelleher rounds up the start times for the parades in Cork and further afield. 

The Cork footballers will enjoy a seven-week run-in to their Munster SFC semi-final on June 3.