Cork businesses have welcomed Irish Rail’s announcement that it is to provide a non-stop express service starting next Monday morning.

Dublin 1-15 Cork 2-7: After a week in which Dublin’s home comforts of Croke Park were atop the pre-Championship agenda, Jim Gavin’s men made a successful 600km round-trip to the hilly amphitheatre of Cill na Martra yesterday.

Dublin avenged last year’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat, with a five-point win over Donegal at Croke Park tonight.

Garda denies he didn’t have ‘blind bit of interest’ in evidence to corroborate innocence

Kildare 0-19 Dublin 0-24: Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup final: For the second time in five years, Jason Ryan was left to rue the red card extra-time rule against Dublin, as the Dubs took full advantage of replacing dismissed Michael Darragh Macauley in the additional periods at Newbridge yesterday

The man who promoted himself as the “financial doctor who engineers successful outcomes to difficult financial situations” is liquidating his company, the High Court heard yesterday.

DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY manager Niall Moyna was happy with this result, although it gives him a fixtures headache.

THE mother of a six-month-old boy with Down Syndrome has spoken of the human impact a planned mass eviction of Travellers will have.

CRAIG DIAS faces a hectic February if he is to help the ambitions of his club, college and county in winning silverware.

Eircom has today announced a number of organisational changes which has seen Meteor CEO Larry Smith leave the company.

A Limerick man has been jailed for four years for having sex with his mentally impaired cousin.

A WEST CLARE contractor and a group of town councillors have challenged each other to traverse Kilrush’s Henry Street in high heels to resolve a dispute on whether the road is even.

THE garda driving Ian Bailey after his arrest for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier ten years ago told him, “even if we don’t pin this on you, you are finished in Ireland, you will be found dead with a bullet in the back of the head,” it was claimed yesterday.

GARDAÍ earned €83.5 million in overtime last year, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal.

A forensic scientist has told a murder trial she found no DNA link between the deceased’s blood and the accused’s clothing or vice-versa.

AN Assistant Garda Commissioner said he would be delighted to deploy more gardaí on the beat in Cork city, and could do so if changes in the legal system meant his subordinates didn’t have to spend so much time in the courts or on prisoner escorts.

BARRING an 11th hour intervention by Justice Minister Michael McDowell, Youghal garda station will be closed between 10pm and 6am each day from Friday week.

Jim O'Sullivan