BILL MURPHY of Fermoy is the new chairman of the Munster GUI Branch. He was elected in a secret ballot at the annual delegate's meeting in the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow, last night in a two man contest with Alan McIlraith of Tramore.

YOU can take “trading down” as a relative term — especially when you consider that the vendors of Lissarda House in Cork traded down to this quite large Georgian house only in the mid-1990s.

REMEMBER the Celtic Tiger? It hasn’t totally gone away, you know.

The top two in Division Three both lost this afternoon as leaders Banbridge maintained the pace in first despite coming asunder 22-15 at Wanderers and Instonians also lost out.

Up to 10,000 jobs are likely to be lost in the construction industry this year, according to the Construction Industry Federation (CIF).