In the North, two rival football teams, Crusaders and Seaview, have cancelled a match in Belfast after violence erupted at a loyalist flag protest outside the ground.

THE final of the Cork GOBA A5 Racedogs Stake takes centre stage at Youghal tonight and John Kiely’s Kranky Rosaleen is clearly the one to beat.

FOUR Cork businessmen have had judgment orders totalling more than €236 million entered against them to date in favour of three banks arising mainly from unpaid property loans.

FOUR businessmen have consented before the Commercial Court to some €63 million summary judgment orders against them over unpaid loans.

A SERIES of new and separate claims by various banks seeking judgment orders for more than €150 million over unpaid loans, the vast majority property related, came before the Commercial Court yesterday.

ASIDE from it being the height of disrespect for the dead, it also marks a new low in the application of logic to suggest that Pope John Paul II was somehow responsible for the death of millions of AIDS victims.

A WAVE of buyers is swamping the south Cork coastline, reckoning the trip to the city (and through Carrigaline too!) is a lifestyle choice worth making.

IF you are looking for a coastal Co Cork home, your boat might just have come in. In fact, it could be at the end of the garden.

JUST coming to the end of its building schedule is a very impressive 3,200 sq ft house, overlooking the sea at Myrtleville in Cork - and, predictably enough, called Seaview.