A 90th-minute equaliser from St Patrick’s Athletic sub Dean Clarke denied Cork City victory at Turner’s Cross on Friday night.

Cork City boss John Caulfield is turning to the club’s youth set-up as he looks to add to the club’s firepower to reignite their stuttering season.

An Irish index that takes monthly snapshots of wholesale costs of energy has recorded “significant” rises in electricity and oil prices last month, but the surging value of the euro is helping to soften any potential price hikes for consumers.

A new accord by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to extend its curb on output has not yet had its desired effect of driving up prices but the effect of earlier cuts may be paying off for the cartel, an Irish energy has said.

Oil prices were largely flat yesterday after steep losses the previous session, with rising US production weighing against comments from leading Gulf oil producers that an extension to Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting (Opec)-led supply cuts was likely.

Kanturk 2-10 Valley Rovers 1-13: Two late points from sub Richie Butler secured Valley Rovers a draw in their Cork Premier IHC quarter-final with Kanturk in Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

Ballincollig 0-13 Valley Rovers 0-8

Valley Rovers 1-19 Bandon 0-13

Fermoy 2-15 Valley Rovers 1-9: Fermoy began life in the higher grade with a fully merited nine point win over Valley Rovers in the Cork Premier IHC at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

Valley Rovers 2-10 Carbery Rangers 0-14: IT isn’t often the sporting planets align to deliver a match climax that maintains the high pitch of everything that preceded it, but such were the delights of last night’s intense Cork SFC first round clash at resplendent Ballinascarthy.

Blackrock’s David Cashman lit up their RedFM SHL clash with St Finbarr’s on Saturday as the Rockies engineered a 16-point victory in Togher. 

Valley Rovers 0-12 Bantry 0-9

In court, a bruised ego is more valuable than a broken back, writes Dan Buckley

CONSTRUCTION chiefs are confident many builders will be interested in the state’s “build now, get paid later” offer to develop the 120-bed unit at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin, which will include dedicated facilities for cystic fibrosis patients.

DARRAGH CROWLEY believes the Health Service Executive’s broken promise on having a new cystic fibrosis patients’ facility at St Vincent’s Hospital by 2010 will cost lives.

A YOUNG boy is totally blind, severely brain-damaged, incontinent and needs 24-hour care after undergoing a procedure at a Cork hospital to deal with a blocked shunt/tube at the age of two, the High Court in Dublin heard yesterday.

St Brogan’s, Bandon 0-11Clonakilty CC 1-5

The ambulance that took Brian Murphy to hospital after he had been violently beaten outside the Burlington Hotel was slow to take him away because they thought he was intoxicated with drink, a witness has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THREE brothers returned home yesterday after spending five months driving halfway round the world to raise €250,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Association.