I always get a little uneasy when my thinking is too aligned with the majority.

Cork are Cork. Or are they?

A Garda inspector saved the life of a court attendee who suffered a fit yesterday.

A veteran republican charged in connection with the IRA's murder of Jean McConville is not medically fit to stand trial, a court has heard.

Prosecutors in Northern Ireland intend to proceed with legal action involving a veteran republican charged in connection with the murder of Jean McConville, a lawyer told a court.

A judge has given lawyers for a veteran republican charged in connection with the murder of Jean McConville a week to hand over medical notes related to a dementia diagnosis.

University College Cork president Patrick O’Shea used the inaugural Cork University Business School conference to announce plans to build a business school in Cork City centre that will be one of the biggest in the country.

A man is fighting for his life after he was found outside a burning house in rural Co Offaly with multiple stab wounds and severe burns.

Dolphins accompanied a group of long-distance swimmers on much of their fundraising route across Tramore Bay, Co Waterford, in aid of the local lifeboat service.

Macroom 4-8 Newmarket 2-11: Gaining momentum with every outing, Macroom booked a Cork Premier IFC quarter-final date with either Éire Óg or Grenagh when edging home at wind and rain-swept Dromtarriffe yesterday.

There's plenty of interesting sport and some great movies on TV tonight...

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC

The Glucksman’s new exhibitions combine images of animals with creatures from UCC’s zoology museum, says Colette Sheridan

A judge has said four men "behaved like a lynch mob from the days of the wild west" when they terrorised a Shannon family in the early hours of New Year’s Day in 2012.

Tune into BBC Three at 9pm tonight to see a documentary about Kris Hallenga as she battles terminal breast cancer and campaigns to make sure other young women and their doctors are made more aware of the risks.

A Shannon grandfather was attacked in the hallway of his home while being terrorised by a group of youths in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2012.

Tune in tonight to watch award-winning chef Neven Maguire create delicious dishes using ingredients from local producers.

Gerry Adams’s sex abuser brother, who is being held in high-security custody in the North amid concerns he is under threat, should be jailed for at least 15 years, a judge has been urged.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams’s sex abuser brother, who is being held in high-security custody in Northern Ireland amid concerns he is under threat, should be jailed for at least 15 years, a judge has been urged.

Now going by the name 'Second Captains', the lads have signed on to do a weekly podcast with the Irish Times.

Gerry Adams has denied that he only went to police nine years after allegations of child abuse emerged against his younger brother to save his political career.

Proposals to raise €4 million a year through philanthropic donations to build facilities for a new school of business at University College Cork are contained in a strategy plan drawn up by a team of UCC professors.

Dot Love, originally from Denmark and who trains in Co Westmeath, saddled Liberty Counsel to land a massive 50-1 surprise in the Ladbrokes’ Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse yesterday.

IF football doesn’t quite explain the world, it features enough individual elements that have genuinely allowed exploration of some of life’s bigger questions.

The former presenters of Newstalk sports show 'Off The Ball' said today that they will be back on air “very soon”.

The axed Newstalk Off The Ball team “are determined to be back on air together as soon as possible.”

Newstalk has been rocked by the departure of the award-winning team behind the acclaimed Off the Ball sports show in a row over the programme’s start time.

The presenters of Newstalk’s award-winning 'Off the Ball' sports show have resigned, the radio station confirmed today.

Castletownbere 1-12 Éire Óg 0-13

Entrepreneurship is becoming an essential part of third-level learning, writes John Hearne.

Classy mare Blazing Tempo registered her ninth career success and sparked a double for champion trainer Willie Mullins and owner Susannah Ricci when justifying even-money favouritism in the Irish Stallion Farms Mares Hurdle at Kilbeggan’s final meeting of 2012 last evening.

The co-founder of one of the world’s most influential series of travel guides will be among the guests at this year’s Immrama Festival of Travel Writing in Lismore.

EIGHTY-SIX miles separates the GAA club in Castletownbere and the Páirc Uí Rinn pitch where they hope to claim the Cork intermediate football trophy against Kinsale tomorrow afternoon.

Was the road out of bounds?

MORE than 2,500 jobs in Ireland’s booming technology sector remain unfilled at a time when close to 450,00 people are on the Live Register.

KILKENNY’S O’Loughlin Gaels and Clare’s Wolfe Tones will battle it out in the Division Five final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh this morning.

US banks will create thousands of high-paying business information jobs here if Irish third-level colleges agree to develop customised training courses, according to a leading academic.

Colm Murphy celebrated a big-race Grade One double on the opening day of the Punchestown Festival today as Big Zeb and Quito De La Roque came up trumps for the Wexford trainer.

Amateur Ciaran Murphy will remember St. Patrick’s Day 2011 for a long time, having completed a fine double on Good Egg and Shadow Eile at Down Royal.

The children of a former Sunday school teacher who murdered their father and her lover's wife have pleaded with a judge to show their mother mercy, a court heard today.

A FORMER Sunday school teacher accused of murdering her policeman husband and her lover’s wife will not give evidence at her trial, her lawyer told Coleraine Crown Court today.

ALL roads lead to Aintree on April 9 following the Grade 2 At The Races Bobbyjo Chase, won by The Midnight Club, at Fairyhouse yesterday as the first four home are all bound for the John Smiths Grand National.

THE rescheduled Co Clare Hunt point-to-point took place at its traditional Belharbour venue in the Burren region of north Co Clare on Saturday and the Matthew Daly-trained newcomer Jimbill impressed by making a winning debut in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.