Séamus Harnedy and his Imokilly teammates had just seen off UCC in their Cork SHC semi-final when they sat down to find out their final opponents.

Cork captain Seamus Harnedy says it’s “on to the next assignment” for him and his team-mates after Sunday’s Munster SHC win over Clare.

The depth of affection for the late Tony Keady far beyond Galway’s borders was underlined again on Saturday when a deputation from Cork visited Oranmore to make a presentation of Cork hurling memorabilia to the Keady family, writes Larry Ryan of the Irish Examiner.

Cork face Dublin this evening in the second round of games in Division 1A, and the Rebels will be hoping for a repeat of last weekend’s workrate and effort, says forward Seamus Harnedy.

Des O’Sullivan reports on an inscribed silver dish ring by Egan’s of Cork.

Dungourney 1-23 St Ita’s 2-12 (East Cork JAHC final): The Jamesey Kelleher Cup travelled home to Dungourney on Saturday after the men in the gold sashes demolished St Ita’s hopes of a fairytale ending to a first Junior A decider in their 114-year history.

Paudie Power’s hand rose highest when a manager was sought for the maiden Killeagh/St Ita’s amalgamated team. The year: 1998. The age-group: U14.

The sea should be almost within earshot of this East Cork two-bed bungalow called Robin Hill, at Gortroe, near Redbarn and Youghal.

Nursing staff at St Ita's psychiatric hospital in Portane, North Dublin are to ballot for industrial action.

By now, you know the cold, hard facts about one of the most jarring weekends for Cork GAA. 

Seamus Harnedy returns to Cork’s starting line-up for their All-Ireland SHC qualifier against Wexford at Innovate Wexford Park on Saturday night.

Needless to say, a championship meeting with Waterford means something more to Seamus Harnedy than most of his Cork colleagues.

There has been a proliferation in hip injuries among inter-county GAA players of late, but two Cork hurlers are delighted to be over recent problems and ready to help their county progress further in the league.

You try to phrase it delicately but in fairness to Seamus Harnedy, he doesn’t beat around the bush.

The door to Cork’s success may hinge on the fitness of Seamus Harnedy.

The door to Cork’s success may hinge on the fitness of Seamus Harnedy.

Where once Cork could field All-Ireland fifteens without leaving the city boundaries, now the Rebel hurling strongholds are flung far and wide, from Senior to Junior, says Michael Moynihan.

A road running through Beaumont Hospital has been raised to a height where traffic is running level with the tops of adjacent garden walls, because of an oversight by Dublin City Council (DCC).

Following the death of an elderly patient at St Ita’s Hospital in Newcastle West during an outbreak of flu, the coroner for West Limerick has ordered an autopsy.

Cork 4-16 Cork IT 1-17

Castlemagner 0-14 Rathpeacon 1-7

CONCERNS have been raised over the handling of an investigation into the alleged abuse of an intellectually disabled resident at a HSE-run facility.

STAFF shortages, bordering on what a nurse’s union described as “dangerous”, are affecting day services at a hospital for intellectually disabled people.

THE Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) has served notice of industrial action on the Health Service Executive because of its failure to properly facilitate the planned closure of mental health services at St Ita’s Hospital.

OLDER people with mental health problems who have been moved out of a 19th-century asylum deemed unfit for purpose by the Mental Health Commission (MHC) will move back again once a unit has been refurbished.

PATIENTS staying in outdated facilities will be living in new, community-based settings in three years’ time after the Government promised to close down 15 Victorian-era institutions.

SOME of the facilities we offer to people with mental health issues seem as likely to exacerbate illness as to contribute to recovery.

MORE than 1,400 mental health patients are continuing to live in inappropriate conditions in old psychiatric hospitals despite a damning report more than a year ago urging the Government to close them.

MARY FITZGERALD attributes reaching the age of 106 to hard work and “keeping away from the men”.

UNCERTAINTY yesterday hung over the future of two new residential healthcare units in west Limerick.

AN ELDERLY woman has died and seven fellow patients are ill after an outbreak of Influenza Type A at a well-known psychiatric hospital in north county Dublin.

A north Co Dublin hospital has put infection control procedures in place after one patient died and several others fell ill.

A patient at a Dublin hospital for older people has died after developing an acute flu virus.

OPPOSITION parties yesterday accused the Government of “the ultimate U-turn” for failing to ensure reinvestment in mental health services of funds raised from the sale of psychiatric hospital lands.

Nurses will today hold a second day of work stoppages as they continue their fight for better pay and conditions.

MENTAL health campaigners have pleaded for psychiatric patients to be spared the impact of today’s planned work stoppage by nurses.

The Irish Nurses Organisation has announced details of further work stoppages this Friday as part of its campaign for improved pay and conditions.

CONTROVERSIAL nursing home Leas Cross was bankrolled to the tune of nearly €5 million by the Department of Health, figures obtained by the Irish Examiner reveal.

ONE of the heirs to the Smurfit fortune has died after being found on fire in a London churchyard

LEAS CROSS was being used as an “overflow” facility for hospitals with a high number of admissions, the nursing home’s owner has claimed.

CONDITIONS in some public mental hospitals remain Victorian, while private psychiatric facilities are state-of-the-art, a damning report by the Government’s mental health watchdog has found.

A DUBLIN woman fell out of a moving car to her death on the M1 motorway just hours after she had tried to cut her wrists, Dublin Coroner’s Court heard.