Ballyhale Shamrocks’ golden generation of players enter the arena on Sunday as warm favourites for the All-Ireland club title, and deserved favourites at that.

A CORK city house that has been a life-saving, holistic home-from-home for many hundreds of persons given cancer diagnoses now looks set to return to private, family accommodation and ‘domestic service’ once more.

Newcastle head coach Steve Bruce has vowed to win over the doubters after admitting he has always regretted turning down the job the first time he was offered it.

Two of tomorrow’s provincial finalists lost the central figures in their hurling histories within six years of each other. Mick Mackey of Limerick passed away in 1982, while Wexford’s Nicky Rackard died in 1976.

From parallel universes to prison cells- here's some of what you can expect from Netflix this July:

Robert F Kennedy Jr is an ‘outlier in the Kennedy family’ with his anti-vaxx support, according to his siblings. Now the family is engaged in a very public spat, says Bette Browne

The mum of a toddler who suffers a rare heart condition is appealing for more awareness of "invisible" conditions and a push to highlight the importance of children's organ donations.

Think about the greatest atmospheres and greatest occasions you have ever seen or experienced at Anfield since the day Bill Shankly walked into the famous old ground 60 years ago and vowed to turn it into a bastion of invincibility.

A retired policewoman who worked with Scotland Yard has told of her meetings with Mary Lowry which led to vital evidence about the murder of Bobby Ryan.

The jury did not hear evidence that Patrick Quirke had secret audio recordings of him being "intimate" with Mary Lowry and that his computer was used to look up articles on notorious Irish murderers including Joe O'Reilly.

Patrick Quirke has been found guilty of murdering his love rival Bobby ‘Mr. Moonlight’ Ryan.

Closing speeches are continuing in the trial of Tipperary farmer Patrick Quirke who denies murdering his love rival Bobby Ryan.

Bobby Ryan's death was "callous, calculated, controlled murder" and the only verdict available is to find Patrick Quirke guilty of murder, lawyers for the State have told the Central Criminal Court.

The prosecution case against farmer Patrick Quirke, who denies murdering his love rival Bobby 'Mr Moonlight' Ryan, is "forensically barren" but calls on the support of the jury's common sense, lawyers for the State have said.

Mary Lowry's son has described murder accused Pat Quirke as "in control most of the time, grumpy some of the time" and said he went around his mother's farm "as if he kind of owned the place".

When an 80-year-old bachelor saw a paramotor in the skies he decided he wanted to fly one himself. His dream has now become a film, writes Esther McCarthy.

Kerry hurler Mikey Boyle’s young son, Bobby, wanted a Galway gearbag for Christmas as Joe Canning is one of his favourite players.

A sister of a farmer whose will is being contested believes a solicitor got his instructions for the will from another sister whose son was left the entire 54-acre farm in Wexford.

As he takes the call in the office of his Toyota dealership in Clonmel, John Kennedy looks at the framed photograph of Clonoulty-Rossmore’s 1997 senior county-winning team. The win, over Mullinahone, doubled the two-time All-Ireland SHC winner’s county senior medal haul, following the 1989 success against Holycross-Ballycahill.

Robert Ballagh’s many connections with Cork go all the way back to his showband days, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Presidential candidate Sean Gallagher said he "could not even begin to countenance" the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland post-Brexit.

Members of a Cork health and fitness centre were left in limbo after the gym announced its closure suddenly and without warning.

Daniel Brennan, all 6ft3in and 20 stone of him, sits in a small chair in the courtyard of the vineyard where the French U20 team are staying outside Narbonne, and tries to rattle off his phone number before realising he can’t do it in English.

It has become one of the iconic camogie photographs, up there with Angela Downey racing through to score a goal for victors Kilkenny in the 1989 All-Ireland final, despite having her skirt pulled off by Cork’s Liz O’Neill, or Lismore’s Gráinne Kenneally diving full-length football-style, sans hurley, in a bid to block a clearance by Ballyhale defender Jacqui Frisby in the drawn All-Ireland intermediate club final 25 years later.

Newcastle 1 Man United 0: The tributes to Liam Miller were both impeccable and tragically poignant, but sadly for Manchester United, they were unable to fashion a display or an outcome fully fitting of a player taken far too soon.

Manchester United stars past and present yesterday stood in silent solidarity at Old Trafford to mark the 60th anniversary of the Munich air disaster.

Although it's been ten years since Jade Goody’s death, we still picture her sons, Bobby and Freddie to be little kids.

Liverpool great Kenny Dalglish thought he was being sacked for a second time when he was called into manager Jurgen Klopp’s office for a conference call with owner John Henry – only to discover he was being immortalised at Anfield.

Ronan Collins, PGA Professional at Fota Island, reckons he can make some kind of golfer out of our reporter, Larry Ryan, at Fota’s state-of- the-art Golf Academy. This week, the lottery of putting

The chief financial officer of the Californian custom product company Zazzle tells reporter Pádraig Hoare why he made Cork his new home last year.

Cork actor Aidan O’Hare won’t be just rooting for his Jackie co-star on Sunday, says Esther McCarthy.

It takes a strong man to come back from adversity to succeed again after being mercilessly mocked for failing at the highest level, but it takes a very special kind of man to do that without any trace of bitterness, anger or regret.

“Let’s open a cracker . ‘Twas Christmas in Manchester, and the excited youngsters were hoping for something special from that tubby old man in red white and black - the one the adults no longer believe in.

A pet dog was found under a tyre with his tongue cut out, his stomach cut open, and his hair black from being set on fire in wasteground.

I have to say that, all those centuries past, it was very far-seeing and considerate of his ancestors to arrange for the new England manager to come among us in 2016 with a ‘gate’ already appended to his surname, thus sparing journalists the effort of having to add the same four letters if – when? - his reign goes, as it were, south.

Tipperary captain Brendan Maher already regrets his All-Ireland winning acceptance speech after forgetting to thank Michael Ryan and the management team.

Rob Heffernan did the nation proud when he finished the sixth in the 50k walk at the Olympics, but his family were left absolutely beaming.

Bobby (13) and Freddy (12) have grown into handsome young men and the image of their late mother.

In a new book Larry Tye, former reporter at The Boston Globe, explores Bobby Kennedy's political and personal transformation and asks what lessons it provides for an equally divided modern day America. In this exclusive excerpt, Tye suggests Bobby's metamorphosis mirrored that which the US was undergoing as it moved from the 1950s self-satisfied era of Eisenhower to the tumultuous 1960s.