WORLD CHAMPIONS Aidan Murphy and Eamon Bowen Jnr shared the limelight at the weekend, winning their opening rounds of the Pat Barry Cup and the Mick Crowley Cup respectively.

HAVING won four of the last five City division junior football titles, White’s Cross have taken the next step to reach a first county final in the grade after prevailing against Mitchelstown at Watergrasshill on Saturday.

WHITE’S CROSS withstood a strong late Gabriel Rangers’ rally before advancing to the Evening Echo Cork JAFC semi-final in Bandon yesterday.

MORE than 3,000 dairy farmers and their families attended the Irish Holstein Friesian Association (IHFA) open day on the farm of Thomas and Michael Buckley at Ballinahina, Dublin Pike, near Cork city.

AN elderly man, who tricked a teenager into disclosing his mobile phone number and sent him nauseating sexual texts and made indecent phone calls to the teenager, was given a suspended jail sentence after paying €9,000 compensation.

THE result was anticipated but Nemo Rangers must show marked improvement on this display at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday to successfully defend their Evening Echo Cork SFC title.

A LATE Robert O’Mahony point earned St Finbarr’s a 0-12 to 1-9 draw in an entertaining all city Evening Echo Cork Co Premier IFC final against St.Vincent’s under lights at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, with the replay pencilled in as the curtain raiser to the senior final on October 5.

DIARMUID O’SULLIVAN may have been absent, but younger brothers Colm and Paudie were to the fore as Cloyne beat White’s Cross in the Evening Echo County JAFC quarter-final at Carraig na bhFear on Saturday.

A NEW law against sending lewd and offensive text messages has resulted in more than 300 prosecutions.

Pine View has four bedrooms on one third of an acre and a guide price of €415,000.

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