Lacking immediate inter-county action to contemplate, I got thinking about tangles subsumed under the heading ‘tactics’. 

As she gets ready to show her short film in Schull, Sarah Horgan takes us behind the scenes

Michael Twomey may be best known for Cha and Miah, but his reflections on over 70 years in Cork theatre include some incredible history, writes Jo Kerrigan

“You have to remember they all want to get up on the wall,” Tom Hogan says.

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The frightening thing is they might just be starting out.

In the mind’s eye, he will always have a hurley in his hand.

CORK theatre stalwart Michael Twomey was one half of the Chah and Miah duo on 1970s TV show Hall’s Pictorial Weekly. 

Henry Shefflin says his club Ballyhale Shamrocks’ victory in the Kilkenny county final on Sunday "defers his decision" on whether to play for the Cats next year.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are allegedly fighting over custody of their eight dogs following their split.

Strictly Come Dancing scored a further ratings victory last night as it beat rival The X Factor for a second night running.

Pop star Frankie Bridge stormed to the top of the chart on Strictly Come Dancing as she achieved the highest score of this year’s new celebrity contestants.

The future visited Derek Lyng when he was in Limerick.

Final preparations are under way to confer the Freedom of Cork on President Michael D Higgins this week.

A funeral home discovered a baby was alive two days after he was pronounced dead at a hospital in eastern China.

As Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane ride in as the FAI’s new sheriff and deputy, Dave Kenny looks at some other memorable good cop/bad cop pairings from the archives, or should that be ‘bad cop/bad bad cop’?

Three comedy legends shared a stage yesterday to be conferred with the Freedom of Cork in recognition of their remarkable contribution to Irish theatre over half a century.

Cork City Council is to confer the freedom of Cork on three entertainers who have brought “joy to generations of people”.

Tensions have emerged over plans to confer the freedom of Cork on three people this year — the highest ever number of recipients in a single year.

Comic duo Cha and Miah will be to the forefront in enticing Cork exiles to return to their roots for this year’s Gathering.

Former Ballyhale Shamrocks player and manager Maurice Aylward does not believe the current squad is as strong as the 2007 and 2010 versions which claimed All-Irelands.

“I’m gone to stud,” is how James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick put it when asked might he like to return to the Kilkenny panel.

Actor Michael Twomey isn’t usually late for his entrances but today he is keeping his audience waiting.

The men behind the legendary comedy duo Cha and Miah were honoured by their native city last night just days before they hang up their trademark caps.

Incredible. Almost comical. Predictable. Frightening. Phenomenal.

Cha Du-ri has left Celtic to join German outfit Fortuna Dusseldorf, the Scottish champions have confirmed this afternoon.

Thomas Rogne is out of Celtic’s Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash with Hearts at Parkhead on Sunday.

Mikael Lustig is set to start for Celtic in Sunday’s clash with Dundee United at Tannadice.

Georgios Samaras, Scott Brown, Kelvin Wilson and Glenn Loovens return to the Celtic squad for Sunday’s clash with Rangers at Parkhead.

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Champions Celtic showed six changes for their Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash with Motherwell at Fir Park.

Kilkenny legend Eddie Brennan fears that James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick may be the one player the All-Ireland champions simply cannot do without.

Celtic winger James Forrest is out of Sunday’s William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final with Hearts at Hampden and doubtful for the rest of the season as he struggles with an ankle injury.

Celtic defender Cha Du-ri has lost his appeal against his sending off against Rangers at Ibrox on Sunday, the Scottish Football Association have confirmed.

Neil Lennon and the Scottish Football Association (SFA) are on course for yet another collision after the Celtic manager described his half-time sending off at Ibrox as “a joke” and claimed he was “deprived of doing my job properly” during yesterday’s 3-2 defeat to Rangers.

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Rangers have made five changes from last week’s defeat to Dundee United as they aim to prevent Celtic from claiming the victory that would see them to win the SPL title at Ibrox today.

James Forrest and Gary Hooper are doubts for Celtic’s Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash with Rangers at Ibrox on Sunday.

Scott Brown is back in contention for Celtic’s William Hill Scottish Cup quarter-final tie against Dundee United at Tannadice on Sunday.

For those who were hoping the recent spate of retirements would cause a little slackening of intensity within the Kilkenny panel, Sunday’s demolition job on Tipperary in the opening round of the 2012 Allianz Hurling League is bad news.

De boys are on to something massive, like. And the translation for those of you unfamiliar with Cork slang is: These young entrepreneurs have developed an idea that is going to be really quite successful.