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After 30 years in UCC, Mel Mercier has now taken up a post in University of Limerick, writes Colette Sheridan

Fermoy 1-9  Cill na Martra 0-10: Goalkeeper Liam Coleman expertly converted three crucial second-half frees as Fermoy came from behind to defeat Cill na Martra in the first round of the Cork IFC on Saturday night in Ballincollig.

The hands raised in interest were few. When Eamonn Fitzmaurice handed back the Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne bainisteoir’s bib last May, there was no flood of CVs lodged in the staff room to replace the Kerry boss.

Munster Post Primary SAFC semi-final: Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 0-12 Clonakilty CC 0-6.

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Aisling Bea is a performer in the old vaudeville tradition, a Lucille Ball for modern times — she writes, she acts and she does stand-up.

One of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians, Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, will perform for one night, October 3, at The University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, in the US, in commemoration of the works of Cork-born Captain Francis O’Neill.

Up to 200,000 tonnes of soil will have to be brought into the site to cap it and level it off and work will have to be undertaken on a 24-hour basis because of tidal constraints.

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Plans for a major clean-up at a toxic dump in Cork harbour are to be the subject of a Bord Pleanála oral hearing.

We are concerned about the damaging effects of non-native trees in Ireland. We are sixth-class pupils of Scoil na nÓg, Glanmire, Cork, and, as part of a project for the ECO UNESCO, Young Environmentalist Awards 2014, we are researching the damaging effects of these trees.

The Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final involving Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne and Coláiste Chríost Rí is to be replayed, the Munster post primary CCC has ruled.

A verdict on the first black card controversy will be delivered by the Munster Post Primary CCC this afternoon.

The fallout from the first black card officiating error is expected to reach a conclusion tomorrow.

The fallout from the first black card officiating error looks set to hold up Munster’s Corn Uí Mhuirí football competition.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 0-12 Coláiste Chríost Rí 1-6

We must stop thinking that those viewing online child pornography are a lower risk to children than a person convicted for sexually abusing a child, according to a leading child protection consultant.

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Cill na Martra 1-11 Kildorrery 1-8

A toxic dump in Cork harbour could be made safe by late-2015 or early-2016, according to the head of a team working on the project.

Nearly 10 times the rain forecast by Met Éireann fell in Clonakilty, Co Cork yesterday morning, leading to the third flood in the town since June.

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Dolphin and Highfield will contest the Cork Charity Cup final while Young Munster and UL Bohemian go head-to-head in the Limerick competition decider following the four semi-finals played over the weekend.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has told insurance companies they “have a moral obligation” to pay out claims made by flood victims in the city and county and must do so “quickly so that people could get back to normal”.

An Irish American convicted of sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls in Dublin has escaped extradition from Britain to the US to face trial for abusing three young girls there.

There are plenty of rugby traditions to baffle the uninitiated — New Zealand’s haka, the French smuggling cockerels into stadiums, clubs touring to the other side of the world for no practical reason whatsoever — and university rugby is no different.

A West Cork town councillor has vowed to raise a stink about costly super loos and prevent local authorities from flushing taxpayers’ money down the toilet.

A RIVERSIDE walk in Clonakilty which cost in the region of €70,000 several years ago may now have to be closed off at certain times because of anti-social activity in the west Cork tourist town.

A MORE clinical Naomh Abán edged out Carrigaline after extra-time in the Cork PIFC second round at Ovens on Saturday.

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IT was as the bookmakers predicted; a seventh Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup title for Clongowes Wood College whose 14 points salvo in the opening minutes of yesterday’s decider at the RDS proved decisive.

A COUNCILLOR wants to “decommission” a superloo because the €39,000 facility is generating just €2,000 a year and is “like flushing money down the toilet.”

A RUSSIAN girl who must take a 80km round trip to school every day because her local school is all-Irish is being forced to pay €1,200 a year for the school bus.

THE curtain came down on this year’s Allianz Sciath na Scol football competition at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday where five finals were decided amid tremendous scenes of jubilation by the victors.

ON a weekend when the Cork hurlers were beating Tipperary in the Munster hurling final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, there were some interesting Evening Echo Cork senior football championship clashes around the county.

IT wasn’t quite the enclosure at Royal Ascot, but Sir David Hayes was quite at home at the Sinn Féin races at McCarthy’s Bar in Timoleague.

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