Young club GAA fan Amy O'Connor has passed away from cancer one year after she helped Dr Crokes Club captain Johnny Buckley lift the All Ireland club football title trophy.

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the entertainment world.

WPP’s Martin Sorrell, head of the world’s largest advertising company, has raked in more £120 million (€155m) in the past six years in annual pay — but his biggest windfall is yet to come.

DURING an interview given in advance of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference by the Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran to Newstalk radio yesterday, the Catholic Church’s uncompromising opposition to the idea of same-sex marriage was expressed with an unblinking calm that suggested there can be no compromise on the issue between the Catholic status quo and those who wish to see our Constitution changed to better reflect the reality of the lives we lead.

With summer fare not quite yet in view, Cork’s football interests once again centre on the county’s U21 outfit, Donal O’Sullivan’s minors a distant afterthought.

A bid to legalise the personal use of cannabis was voted down by Fine Gael delegates.

A former accountant with the Irish Coursing Club submitted “fictitious” mileage expenses worth €3,800 a year after striking an agreement with his former boss and the club’s former auditors, a tribunal has heard.

SOMETIMES it takes a shortage to appreciate water. Or a power blackout to get the fundamental importance of electricity.

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Trainer Peter Casey says Flemenstar is “very unlikely” to run at the Cheltenham Festival nest month after being found to have a lung infection.

FOR a flavour of the chaos and desperation contained in the report, we turn to the story of ‘Young Person in Care 8’.

Up to 80,000 jobs could be created and the country’s GDP boosted by €3.9bn if the Government creates a policy framework that enables more cleantech industries to be developed, according to a report.

The head of Canada’s fastest growing province is to lead a delegation of its employers to Dublin and Cork next month to recruit for up to 275 jobs.

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Ireland is to endure a fourth successive year of recession this year, according to the latest forecast from economic consultants Ernst and Young.

A GROUP of Cork students who played a leading role in raising awareness of suicide among young people in their community were last night named as Young Social Innovators of the Year 2011.

THE recently-formed Irish Show Jumping Centres Group (ISJCG) is not hanging around.

Harry Redknapp fears Tottenham will suffer the kind of mauling England endured at the hands of Germany if he goes gung-ho in his side’s Champions League Group A opener at Werder Bremen tomorrow night.

Jermaine Jenas will miss Tottenham’s Champions League play-off round first leg at Young Boys tomorrow night due to a calf strain.

IN the article “Pornography: Is it bad for us?” (May 11), Milton Diamond states that no evidence has been documented linking sexually explicit material (SEM) and sex crimes.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley wants local authority managers who squander public money to be hauled before the Public Accounts Committee.

Selected tips from courses in the UK and Ireland.

Auditors who checked the annual accounts of Anglo Irish Bank should have spotted secret multi-million euro loans, Financial Regulator Patrick Neary said today.

'X Factor' host Dermot O’Leary will launch an award-winning children’s film festival tonight.

Baseball star Roger Clemens denied allegations he ever used performance-enhancing drugs after the legendary pitcher was named in the Mitchell report, a 20-month investigation into their use in Major League Baseball.

There is one change to the starting Ireland U20 team to play the England U20s in Dubarry Park, Athlone on Friday night from the side that beat France 19-16 in their last game.

Unilever looked set to end its 63-year association with Birds Eye today after agreeing to sell most of its European frozen foods business for £1.16bn (€1.7bn).

OVER €4 million is being provided in additional funding to drug and youth projects, the Government has announced.

Ireland lock, Paul O'Connell has passed a fitness test earlier today and has been selected in the starting line up for the Ireland team to play Scotland in the RBS Six Nations Championship in Lansdowne Road on Saturday.

THE retail group behind the Suits You and Racing Green menswear brands changed hands yesterday for an estimated £30 million (€43m).

IT is unfair of Paul O’Brien to label the PDs as “right-wing fundamentalists” and “for big business” in his coverage of the party’s annual conference (Irish Examiner, April 11).

British assurance society Equitable Life said today it was ready to consider its long-term future after achieving its most “stable and secure” position since 2000.

YOUNG VINTAGE, last of 21 on her latest appearance, gets the nap to take the Mares Hurdle on a rather ordinary six-race programme at Clonmel this evening.

The world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is preparing to launch its own beer.

YOUNG Fine Gael yesterday demanded an end to an outrageous housing tax rip-off where stealth levies account for 45% of the cost of a new home.

VENTURE capital investment in Irish companies has collapsed 50% year-on-year according to a pan-European survey, which shows the greatest problems in the software sector.

Ronan O'Gara was the star of Cork Constitution's win over Young munster at Temple Hill today.

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