Cork Constitution are Ulster Bank League 1A champions for the first time in seven years after avenging last season’s narrow loss to Clontarf in a gripping finale at a sun-kissed Aviva Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

CBC Cork 30 Crescent College 5: Christian Brothers College Cork laid down a marker in their bid to retain the Clayton Hotels sponsored Munster Schools Senior Cup when they proved much too strong for Crescent College Comprehensive at Musgrave Park yesterday.

Galwegians 19 Cork Constitution 38: Cork Constitution’s sheer hunger for silverware was obvious when captain James Ryan spoke in the aftermath of their 38-19 Ulster Bank Bateman Cup final win over Galwegians at Crowley Park.

A consultant neonatologist with 30 years experience has called for a public health campaign designed to reduce the risk of babies being born prematurely.

A man who says he was too drunk to remember knocking a woman out before sexually assaulting her has been jailed for four years.

A man who says he was too drunk to remember knocking a woman unconscious before sexually assaulting her has been jailed for four years.

A man who had gone to a cheap drinks promotion at a night club claims he was too drunk to remember knocking a woman unconscious and sexually assaulting her.

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A forecast of cold weather over the next few days combined with the potential impact of the budget on spending has sent a chill through retailers across the county.

Set fire to those fascinators — Ladies Day fashion needs a complete overhaul, says Annmarie O’Connor. Here’s her guide to style at the races.

Pic 1: Suzanne Wall, from Limerick, at plate day.

It was agony and ecstasy at Ballybrit yesterday as one Aussie took home €12,000 as Best Dressed Lady — and I missed out on €1,000 by a matter of inches.

IMAGINE looking like a woman in her forties — but with a brain that’s almost a century old. Visualise the trauma of losing an arm in an accident — but then simply growing a new one.

CHAMPIONS Dromcollogher-Broadford will face Monaleen in the Limerick SFC semi-final after the latter shocked last season’s finalists Fr Caseys (0-11 to 0-9) in Kilmallock yesterday.

GALWAY Race Committee yesterday announced a host of new sponsors, at the launch of the Summer Festival Meeting 2010.

Tributes were paid today to a gifted young footballer and former solider who was stabbed to death after a row in an apartment block.

A Garda has claimed that a man accused of manslaughter admitted that three men got out of his car at the scene of the subsequent killing but he drove off before anything happened because he wanted nothing to do with it.

TRALEE lady Carol Kennelly blew away the storm clouds over Galway when her dazzling outfit scooped the crown every woman covets, Best Dressed Lady.

THERE was no need for a steward’s inquiry in Ireland’s most award-winning winter hunt race yesterday.

THE High Court has approved a €1.5 million settlement on behalf of a six-year-old child who suffered a permanent disfigurement after she lost all of her fingers on one hand in the weeks after her birth.

Garda surveillance detectives were briefed that a car was travelling from Northern Ireland to collect guns in Dublin, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin was told today.

A 40-year-old convicted rapist who answered a text message sent accidentally by a 15 year old girl and then started a sexual relationship with her has been jailed for three years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A WOMAN who has fostered an astonishing 113 babies has been declared Cork Person of the Month.

BIRDS of paradise, exotic orchids, flora bunda - in the scented surrounds of Anthony Ryan’s marquee they gathered, one more lovely than the next.

An armed robber who was apprehended when the chain of his getaway bicycle broke as he was fleeing, with his gun suspended on a rope around his neck, has been remanded on bail for sentence on July 21 next.

A LIVELY mix of foliage and plumage won out in the style stakes at Ballybrit yesterday, as thousands of perfectly groomed females lit up the grandstand and parade ring on Lady’s Day at the Galway Races.

HE was six feet tall with shoulders like a forward prop and still the prospect of tackling the seething mass ahead left him like a frightened girl guide at an Ozzy Osbourne concert.