If we are going to provide the social care services that people desire — and in many cases, deserve — we are going to have to ensure that there is in place a large cadre of wealth creators.

Kerry global financial services company Fexco has opened a €21m research centre near its headquarters in Killorglin.

Cork is two years into a 10-year Bus Connects plan without a kilometre of additional bus lane or a planning application for a single park and ride.

The West Cork ladies footballers had some difficulty in securing a pitch to train on last Wednesday evening. Four days out from their county senior final date with Mourneabbey, it was hardly an ideal scenario to arise.

A Cavan man has pleaded guilty before the non-jury Special Criminal Court this morning to helping an unlawful organisation murder dissident republican Peter Butterly.

He will only be released to play in the Eisenhower Trophy or the Olympic Games - that’s the understanding between John Murphy’s college in Louisville, Kentucky and Kinsale Golf Club where the availability of this year’s St Andrews Links champion is concerned.

IF Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is still convinced that the people of rural Ireland want, as he puts it, “to turn every town into a city and every village into town, and railways to everywhere,” he should stop being so condescending and get out more.

A branch of KBC bank in Cork City centre was closed to the public yesterday after a peaceful protest by anti-eviction campaigners.

Four men have appeared before an out-of-term sitting of the Special Criminal Court charged in connection with the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly four and a half years ago.

The Irish Examiner Readers Photo Competition 2016 weekly winners have been announced.

A number of local bodies have joined forces to promote six deepwater marine investment opportunities along the Shannon Estuary.

Tommy Barker reports on a Beara Peninsula property which features an accompanying art gallery or guest house. 

A civic reception has been given to a global entrepreneur who has kept his feet firmly on Kerry soil where he grew his tiny operation into a world-leading brand.

If you’re into your sports in West Cork, you’ve probably been into the Coachman’s Inn, north of Skibbereen on the main Drimoleague road, at Bauravilla.

I have been promoting clover since the late 1980s, and it looks like the job of convincing farmers to avail of the benefits of clover will be easier in future — up to €160 per cow extra profit easier.

A look ahead to all the weekend’s action around Cork...

Tallow 2-15 Ballyduff Upper 1-13: Tallow backed up last week’s draw against De La Salle with a win over neighbours Ballyduff Upper in a fiercely disputed Western derby at Lismore last night.

De La Salle 2-12  Tallow 1-15

Three members of a well- known Cork political family — one of whom is currently serving a jail sentence — were among 126 mortgage holders against whom lenders sought repossession orders at a sometimes noisy Limerick County Registrar’s court yesterday.

The Connemara Mussel Festival (May 1-3) picked up one hell of an accolade last year.

More than 400 repossession cases have come before Cork Circuit Court since the start of the year.

Even by its usually busy standards Cork’s courthouse on Washington Street saw an increased footfall yesterday, as the usual traffic of legal eagles negotiated its way through a congregation of protestors who took up residence on the court’s limestone steps for the morning.

Up to 1,000 people marched in Killarney on Saturday afternoon, with placards and notices demanding not just the scrapping of water charges but also an end to the bank bailout.

Darina Allen, owner of the world-renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School, was last night honoured by Cork Chamber for her years of service and achievement in the food industry.

It may yet prove to be a watershed moment for the Government.

De La Salle 1-16 Tallow 2-09

From food tourism — holidays that are all about the restaurants — to annual pilgrimages to high-end eateries, the way we eat out has been transformed.

Two-time winner of the FAI Ford Cup, former Ireland international Glen Crowe, will be the standout player in the St Mochta’s line-up when they visit Turner’s Cross tonight for an FAI Ford Cup second-round tie against Cork City (kick-off 7.45pm).

While out on my morning “jog” with my four legged jogging partner Monty, (neighbour’s dog), I recently had a problem with my running shoe.

The confidential garda recipient was a key institution set up to help address the chronic failures identified by the Morris Tribunal into endemic corruption in the Donegal division.

Oliver J Connolly was sacked by his erstwhile buddy, Justice Minister Alan Shatter, but there is absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing on his part, writes Michael Clifford

An anti-eviction group protested outside the now monthly Possession and Well Charging Court in Tralee yesterday.

A terrific headed goal from Gavin Peers booked Sligo Rovers' passage through to the quarter-finals of the FAI Ford Cup as they beat Cork City 1-0 at the Showgrounds.

A 40-bed nursing home could close unless the Government intervenes with financial support, it was claimed yesterday.

Cloyne 1-06 Grenagh 0-08

Allianz Hurling League Division 3A final

Donegal and Fingal will meet in the Allianz Hurling League Division 3A final, with the Dublin outfit getting the better of the Ulster side in Letterkenny this afternoon, while Louth and Fermanagh also claimed wins.

Keith Andrews, looking on from afar because of injury, on the urgent need to make the most of the result in Sweden with a winning performance against Austria tonight.

Industry sources have confirmed that Pepsi has contacted subcontractors directly and asked them to write off their losses and return to work on a €10m development in Cork.

Subcontractors owed thousands of euro are threatening to blockade the site of a major new Pepsi development in Cork following the main contractor on the €10m project going into liquidation.

Newly-crowned champions Sligo Rovers have, as expected, dominated the PFAI Premier Division Team of the Year with five places but there was no place for any member of EA Sports Cup and Europa League bound Drogheda United in the side.

Bride Rovers 2-13 Cloyne 2-12

If it’s not quite a case of ‘don’t mention the war’, then at least there is an understandable tendency not to want to dwell on the great unpleasantness.