Leading from the start Donegal’s Donagh Kelly (Ford Focus WRC) swept to a fifth successive victory in the Quality Hotel West Cork Rally. Co-driven by Monaghan’s Conor Foley they finished 45.8 seconds clear of Monaghan’s Josh Moffett and co-driver Andy Hayes with Irish Tarmac champions Monaghan’s Sam Moffett and Cork’s Karl Atkinson (Fiesta R5) in third.

One of West Cork’s period blue-blood properties, the Lisselan Estate near Clonakilty, has found a new, and very local, buyer — Colette Twomey of Clonakilty Blackpudding — for close to €3m.

A report into a centre for people with disabilities reveals that staff arrived to work there on the morning of an inspection not knowing what shift they were on and organising the roster among themselves, a situation that contributed to “an unacceptable level of risk to residents” at the facility.

A 50-acre tract of land is being sold for development at Cork’s Blarney Business Park, six miles from Cork city centre, on the N20 Mallow-Limerick road. It’s priced at €2.75m, or circa €55,000 an acre.

They might manufacture tents, camping and lightweight mattresses and much more for an outdoor recreational lifestyle, as well as aviation seating and sleeping aids for the jet set, but US company Cascade Design still needs traditional manufacturing/warehouse centres.

This is guided at €675,000, and is reached off a short, discrete shared access with low stone avenue walls off Church Hill.

Racing driver Jake Byrne has abandoned his Motorsport Ireland Young Driver of the Year programme with immediate effect after it appears he is unhappy with his UK Formula Ford campaign - the prize for winning the prestigious award.

New uses, or even owners, for what was once Cork city’s largest employment base, the Dwyer family’s Sunbeam Wolsey textile plant are being sought.

Classic 315-acre estate has links to Ford founder Henry Ford, and Gold Cup winner Imperial Call, reports Tommy Barker.

Hydrotherapy and pool sessions are being used by vets to treat injuries and obesity, says Nuala Woulfe.

Glowing tributes were paid last night to the only public representative to have served 40 consecutive years in Cork’s City Hall.

Pioneers of innovation in Irish motorsport, the Killarney and District Motor Club will herald the introduction of the FIA European Historic Rally Championship on next week’s caretll.ie International Rally of the Lakes.

Efforts are continuing to avoid moving 400 secondary students to temporary classrooms almost two miles from their Cork city centre school this week.

One of Cork’s most prestigious schools has been forced to relocate from the city centre to an industrial estate just days before the new term.

THE RAIN, it rains on the just and the unjust. And has been doing so forever. Complaining about the weather in Ireland is like Mrs Lincoln complaining about the play.

A Cork harbour Georgian period home has great views that haven’t changed much in the past 150 years, Tommy Barker reports

Instead of reviving the original show, director Marian Wyatt chose to make an even more ambitious play, says Colette Sheridan

WHAT appeared to be a cracking entry for Sunday’s Kilkenny-based Suirway Farm Machinery Raven’s Rock Rally, the fifth round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, has been decimated by a series of withdrawals.

THE historic Sunbeam factory site in Cork which was gutted in a fire two years ago looks set to rise from the ashes as part of a €105 million development.

YOUR readers might be able to help us in our efforts to write a history of the Dwyer family involvement in two of Cork’s major companies of yesteryear - Dwyer & Co and Sunbeam Wolsey.

IT'S hard not to fall into eulogies with a house like Knockgriffin - it's a classic example of domestic revival architecture.

Leitrim’s Sean Gallagher and his Kerry co-driver Paul Nagle were decisive winners of the BIO TECH Kerry Rally.

VICTORY in yesterday’s Munster Motor Cycle and Car Club Loose Surface Autocross in Brinny, the penultimate round of the Maxsport Munster Autocross Championship, has virtually assured Gerard Lucey his second title in succession.