THERE’S a touch of the Rip Van Winkles about the re-emergence of a West Cork guesthouse back in the bed-nights business after dozy decades of dereliction and being used to store old silage wrap.

HOLIDAY-MAKERS got a remarkable opportunity to swim with wild dolphins yesterday when a large pod came within yards of a West Cork beach.

TWO wins out of two now for Muskerry in the Divisions section of the Cork SHC.

THERE’s no need to go to school through the fields at Sli na Scoile — the west Cork village’s national school is just across the road, and the church is right next door to the seven-house scheme.

ONE Fifty One plc and five former senior managers of Mr Binman Ltd, a large Midlands waste company, have all undertaken before the High Court not to use confidential information about Mr Binman’s business which was allegedly wrongly downloaded by one of the managers.

A LEADING waste company has claimed before the High Court that five senior managers who left the company on the same day this month are conspiring with One Fifty One plc to effect a hostile takeover.

MUNSTER’s Heineken Cup victory looms large in the longlist of entries for the 2006 Boylesports Irish Sports Book of the Year Award.

HOLDERS Cork will field seven of the squad which trounced Limerick in last year’s provincial final in tomorrow night’s opening round of the ESB Munster Minor Hurling Championship at the Gaelic Grounds (6.30).

Dublin Colleges 1-13 Midleton CBS 0-10

Midleton CBS 2-13 Our Lady’s, Templemore 2-8