The RNLI celebrated the acquisition of two new inshore lifeboats from private donation, with naming ceremonies in Cork towns over the weekend.

Youghal hosts a competitive ten-race programme tonight, and the nap goes to Hawks Apprentice in race four.

The rapidly approaching Rugby World Cup is causing media outlets everywhere to break out in supplements and previews — I can only hope you made the effort to collect last Friday’s newspaper, which had the pick of those supplements accompanying it.

Hands — first nights are all about hands. Hands for shaking, sweating, hugging, backslapping, pint-holding, but mostly clapping.

Bull McCabe: "No Government will send a bill to me for my water."

Christian guest house owners who were ordered to pay damages after turning away a gay couple have said they are "deeply disappointed and saddened" after losing a fight in the UK's highest court.

The mother of two small boys strangled by a 100lb python in their sleep in Canada had posted photos on Facebook last year of them playing in and cleaning her neighbour’s snake enclosure.

A mother-of-four has failed in her appeal against her conviction and 10-year sentence for killing an English new age traveller and submerging his body in a slurry pit.

Sylvester Stallone has said that despite his Rambo image and new shoot-’em-up film 'Bullet To The Head', he is in favour of new US gun curbs.

Hours like these he doesn’t miss.

Tom Hayes is 32 now and, on the law of averages, the chance of following his brother John into the family’s ranks of capped international rugby players is probably beyond him.

Mick Galwey, his old sparring partner with Shannon, Munster and Ireland, last night launched John Hayes’s autobiography “The Bull” in the Sin Bin, the Limerick bar owned by another former team mate and rugby legend, Peter Clohessy, who couldn’t be present because of the death earlier in the day of his father, Noel.

A liquid, oven-cleaning product is being taken off the shelves in Ireland after a toddler in Britain drank its corrosive contents.

An oven-cleaning product has been recalled due to safety concerns after a toddler drank the corrosive fluid.

THE forecast for the next week starting tomorrow is that it will be very unsettled so we’re adopting a wait-and-see policy before deciding what to do with Dragon Pulse.

A CORK woman was jailed for 10 years yesterday for her role in killing a new age traveller whose body was dumped in a slurry tank in West Cork.

A Cork woman has been jailed for 10 years, and a Scottish woman and English man for nine years each for killing a New Age Traveller and dumping his body in a slurry tank in West Cork.

A man and two women will be sentenced on Friday for killing a New Age Traveller and dumping his body in a slurry tank in West Cork.

TWO young gay men say their first-date kiss got them thrown out of a London pub — and turned them into Internet icons.

A JURY found a middle-aged Fermoy woman not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter in the case where the victim was found weeks later submerged in a slurry pit.

THE jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering a man nicknamed Gold-tooth whose body was found weeks later in a slurry pit at the back of a farmhouse will continue their deliberations today.

GARY “Gold-tooth” Bull made a prophesy hours before his death that he would be killed, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork was told yesterday.

A WOMAN on trial for murdering a man known as “Gold-tooth” allegedly told the victim’s ex-partner she smashed his head in with a mallet, claiming she did it for her.

Christian hotel owners who refused a gay couple a double room acted unlawfully, a British judge ruled today.

A MAN has been remanded in custody after being charged yesterday with the murder of a new-age traveller whose body was found dumped in a slurry tank in west Cork almost three years ago.

A 38-year-old Englishman has been charged with the murder of a new age traveller in west Cork almost three years ago.

John Hayes has identified Ireland’s Grand Slam as the highlight of a career on the brink of a special milestone, which could also be prolonged until the 2011 World Cup.

DECLAN KIDNEY doesn’t do panic, so anyone anticipating or even hoping for wholesale changes in the team to play England at Twickenham on Saturday will be disappointed when he shows his hand at lunchtime today.

THE story of “The Bull” who became a “Lion” provided a delightful backdrop to Cappamore Show in Co Limerick yesterday.

AN EYEWITNESS in a murder trial in Cork was accused yesterday of colouring his evidence by claiming that the two accused were laughing after the attack.

Zarkava will face 15 rivals as she bids to become the first filly since 1993 to win Europe’s most prestigious race, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Jimmy Fortune has picked up a prized spare ride on Papal Bull in Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

ANOTHER fascinating ingredient was yesterday added to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe when Ralph Beckett’s Oaks winner Look Here emerged a surprise contender.

DUKE Of Marmalade will face a maximum of nine rivals as he attempts a mile and a half for the first time in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

DNA samples were needed to identify a man who was murdered and whose body was dumped in a slurry pit, an inquest has heard.

Ballydoyle got the Classic weekend off to a perfect start when Soldier Of Fortune (9-4) landed the Juddmonte Coronation Cup.

Sebastien Loeb begins tomorrow’s final day of the Wales Rally GB on the verge of his fourth successive World Rally Championship title.

A WOMAN questioned about the murder of a man whose body was found dumped in a slurry tank was released without charge last night.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a man whose body was dumped in a Co Cork slurry pit continued to question a woman in her 40s last night following the seizure of a 4x4.

Detectives investigating the murder of an Englishman whose body was found in the slurry tank of a remote farm made a further arrest today.

Gardaí in Co Cork have released one of the two men being questioned about the murder of New Age Traveller Gary Bull.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Gary Bull in west Cork have arrested two more men for questioning this morning.

LOVED by movie-makers, painters and photographers, the ancient bridge at Leenane, swept away by flood waters yesterday, was more importantly a vital part of a busy tourist route.