Munster Rugby’s loss is Cork GAA’s gain as Aidan O’Connell joins the latter organisation as their first ever high-performance manager.

A Young Offenders cast member who admitted shoplifting twice at Blarney Woollen Mills had a horrendous history of offending, the sentencing judge said.

Munster are closing in on appointing an American football strength and conditioning coach as head of athletic performance, causing surprise and disappointment within Munster and Irish rugby circles that indigenous candidates have been overlooked again.

What has happened to Cork? When the last time you could actually trust the county’s footballers to deliver on the big day? Paddy Kelly knows the issues. “We haven’t had a big scalp in the championship the last few years. Even saying that, we sound like of the smaller counties, but this is a huge opportunity to put that right.”

Before getting into how both Cork and Kerry will be better for last Sunday, let’s start by acknowledging and appreciating that Cork-Kerry itself has hardly been better than last Sunday.

A court yesterday heard of “bad blood” on the traditional jarvey stand in Killarney, Co Kerry, and of how a number of jarveys are being accused of using technology to harass others.

Munster head of fitness Adam Trypas on why evolution, not revolution, is key to the province’s development

A young couple with a new baby and three other children said yesterday they had a lender’s application to repossess their rural home “sprung upon them”.

IN the days before last year’s Heineken Cup quarter-final for Munster against Harlequins, I was asked about retirement by the press. I said at the time if anyone was enjoying their career as much as I was, why would they want to walk away from it?

A festival with a difference is to be held in a Co Cork town which aims to get more children interested in science and turn it into a hub for research and innovation.

This is new, whatever about being a nadir, for Cork hurling.

Three weeks into the new campaign and Munster are slowly resuming a semblance of proper order.

The dressing rooms in Dr Hyde Park are out on a limb and last Saturday night, despite a biting wind, a group of disappointed Sligo fans hung around to see up close the team that had just taken them apart.

They grasped silverware again in April yet the applause did not come tumbling down from the stands to greet Cork’s third successive league title.

Cork’s consistency on Conor Counihan’s watch is remarkable.

CORK star Daniel Goulding “can’t wait” to return to intercounty action in the New Year after his 2011 season was cut short by an ankle injury sustained in the All-Ireland qualifiers against Down.

With the RaboDirect PRO 12 season entering a two-week break, players have a chance to enjoy some downtime - but Munster’s strength and conditioning coach Aidan O’Connell insists it will be business as usual for players looking to recover from injuries.

DEFEATED after a replay in the final of last year’s competition, Ballygarvan’s quest to go one better and claim the Cork IHC got off to a winning start as they swept past Aghada at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

CORK defender Michael Shields is hopeful GAA disciplinary chiefs will review Maurice Condon’s dismissal of Eoin Cadogan in Sunday’s Division 1 league tie in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

ALL-IRELAND winning boss Conor Counihan is set to stay on in charge of the Cork senior footballers for a further two years. Speculation mounted over Counihan’s future since his initial tenure officially came to an end after last month’s All-Ireland decider triumph over Down.

THE medical experts may fret over him succumbing to the scourge of burnout and Cork supporters may worry about his ability to sustain a summer starring in both codes, but Eoin Cadogan’s approach to his incessant intercounty activities is calm and composed.

AS Donncha O’Callaghan chatted with journalists this week, he realised that payback time had arrived for Paul O’Connell’s recent comments on The Late, Late Show.

THE GAA appears to be standing up to the recession’s buffeting thus far, judging by attendance figures released yesterday and Christy Cooney’s positive utterances about projected income figures for the year.

TWELVE months on after his return from Australia and Michael Shields’ life radiates a warm glow.

THE Cappoquin Poultry processing plant is to be taken over by two British investors who will prepare chicken for the British halal market.

SHOCKED, devastated, gutted, fearful about the future — the reactions of workers at Cappoquin Chickens after the cloud that hung over the plant all summer finally burst yesterday afternoon.

AN ENGLISH poultry company is to meet today with representatives of Cappoquin Chickens to discuss a possible rescue bid.

A MOTORIST was involved in a tense city centre standoff yesterday after his car was clamped and lifted for towing.

Munster have enlisted Great Britain’s rugby league assistant coach, Graham Steadman, as their defensive coach.

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Electronic manufacturing company Keytech has appointed a receiver, Aidan O’Connell of Deloitte & Touche.

BRITAIN were defeated in their historic first return to the America’s Cup stage in 15 years, as they lost to Team Dennis Conner’s vastly experienced crew on Stars and Stripes in the first showcase race of the 31st America’s Cup series.