A judge who heard days of evidence about bad blood between neighbours over a house extension said the two parties were very foolish but only one was before the court.

An exhibition of almost 200 works of art by artists who have experienced mental health difficulties has opened in Cork.

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Midleton CBS 3-15 Hamilton High School Bandon 1-6: Midleton CBS proved too strong for Hamilton High School Bandon in the Harty Cup at Ballincollig yesterday, recording their first win following an opening round defeat by Ardscoil Rís.

A leading Church of England figure has said changing the law to allow IVF babies to be born with DNA from three different people would not be “responsible”, according to reports.

St Francis College, Rochestown 2-14 Midleton CBS 1-08

Hamilton High School, Bandon 2-16 Midleton CBS 0-21

Midleton CBS 0-11 CBS HS Clonmel 0-10

TG4’s entertainment series An Samhradh Linn returns to the rebel county this week.

Patricia Walsh is one of about 60 artists who is showcasing work in Cork Mental Health Foundation’s Reflecting Through Art exhibition, which opens this week in Cork International Airport.

Clonakilty 3-13 Dohenys 2-14 (aet)

While the fallout from Tipperary’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kilkenny continues to reverberate, there were some green shoots for Premier hurling fans with victory in the Carrigdhoun Munster Inter-county U15 competition on Saturday.

Droopys Delfino can earn a place in the upcoming Irish Derby by winning the featured Ladbrokes.com Derby Trial Stake.

Martin Beckett doesn’t consider himself an artist, but he knows he’ll get a lift when he sees two of his paintings included in this year’s Cork Mental Health Foundation’s art exhibition.

THREE GOALS in the opening half paved the way for Coachford Community School in a hopelessly one-sided Munster Senior A Vocational Schools football semi-final at Kilmichael yesterday.

Sam Maguires 2-5Clonakilty 0-5

A search is continuing in Co Cork for a man who went missing from a nursing home in Bantry earlier this week.

ROSS HICKEY and Eamon O’Kane both took bronze medals from the European championships in Liverpool last night as Ireland repeated the haul from the Europeans in Madrid in 1971 when flyweight, Neil McLaughlin, bantamweight Mick Dowling and featherweight Brendan McCarthy all took medals.

A Belfast hospital was today warned it was putting some of the most vulnerable members of society at risk after it approved plans to close 36 beds for the elderly.

TEEN idol Samantha Mumba’s pursuit of movie stardom has run into trouble over a controversial teen ‘suicide’ scene in her latest movie, the romantic zombie comedy, Boy Eats Girl.

Irish short film ‘Undressing My Mother’ has been selected to screen during International Critics Week at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, it emerged today.