CORK CITY has a long and occasionally fraught relationship with the River Lee. 

People in Ireland spend €2.4bn on sport and fitness every year, but most adults believe children are doing less exercise than they themselves did as children.

WHAT do Bruce Springsteen and Simon Cowell have in common?

EIGHT cyclists from east Cork are saddling up to become the first Irish team to compete in one of the world’s toughest cycle races.

There’s about 4,900 sq ft of space to play with at this unusual period mix. Tommy Barker reports

COMPLACENCY, inertia, arrogance, denial and inaction. These characterised “Official Ireland’s” failure to anticipate and ameliorate last year’s flooding in Cork and are informing its response ever since.

FEW people forget the primal thrill of landing their first fish.

FOR a pleasant change, all four South of Ireland semi-finalists at Lahinch this morning are career amateurs, men who work during the day and play golf in their spare time.

TWO great old warriors waged a titanic struggle in yesterday's Munster final of the Bulmers Irish Senior Cup at Muskerry before Dermot Morris carried the day for Limerick Golf Club by getting home at the third extra hole against Tom Cleary of Cork Golf Club.

THE case against three people charged in connection with the collapse of a murder trial two years ago could be dropped if the book of evidence is not ready in two weeks, a court has heard.

WHEN Philip Cassidy sprang one of cycling’s shocks of the century by coming back after 16 years to win the FBD Milk Rás for a second time in 1999, his son Mark was just a spectator with a passing interest.

Three people charged in connection with events which led to the collapse of a recent murder trial have been remanded on continuing bail at Limerick District Court.