A Solas employee who says he was asked, in a job promotion interview, “Do you think, at this stage, that you should be taking it easier”, has been awarded €20,000 for discrimination.

Looking for gift ideas for food lovers? Strap yourselves in for a Christmas shopping spree with The Menu.

Dave Barry doesn’t expect the war of words between Cork City and Dundalk to spill over onto the pitch at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday. 

Cork City 1 Bray Wanderers 0

Eoin O’Callaghan on the curious friendship between a boxing legend and a Nobel Prize winning author.

The map of Europe presents a very different picture now to the days John Caulfield was gnawing at the ankles of elite club defenders.

If there was already a gripping battle on the pitch for league honours, Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny raised the ante off it with his questioning of Cork City’s penalty count.

A batch of Garda recruits has been deployed to Limerick to receive special on-the-ground training from experienced officers who have put their lives on the line to protect the city from gangland criminals.

Lismore (Waterford) 2-14 Kilmoyley (Kerry) 0-13: Lismore are the new Munster Club IHC champions after an impressive victory over Kerry side Kilmoyley at Mallow’s GAA Complex on Saturday.

A good portion of the Cork City squad which will arrive at the Aviva tomorrow for the FAI Cup final will have finished in the runner-up position in the league for the third year in a row.

Dave Ludzik looks at four of City’s best wins at Turner’s Cross...

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Matters to be resolved.

The crew of LÉ Niamh will return home on Friday, October 2, but it is still unknown if the Government will send a replacement ship out to the Mediterranean Sea to aid the EU-led operation to save migrants attempting to make the crossing from North Africa into Europe.

When the players of FC Haka of Finland walked off the pitch at Turner’s Cross in July 2008 following an entertaining 2-2 draw, few of the home fans could have predicted that it would be seven long years before the ground would hold another European club fixture.

The menu consents to being showered by Father’s Day gifts from his progeny; less grudgingly, if those gifts are designed to appeal to his innate gluttony.

Former Cork footballer Dave Barry has challenged Brian Cuthbert’s side to make their critics eat their words after the torrent of negativity that has followed Sunday’s defeat to Dublin.

ACROSS the table is the face of modern gaelic football. The face and the physique.

If ever a piece of footage encapsulates what supporting a football team means to those who stick it out through the interminable rollercoaster, it is that wonderful clip on YouTube filmed from the away end at Tolka Park in October 2011 just as Graham Cummins is about to score his 94th-minute title winning goal.

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"We did forty press conferences last year and the crowd was never as big as this," said John Caulfield with a grin at Cork’s International Airport Hotel yesterday, as a big media contingent turned up to greet Liam Miller on his official touchdown for Cork City.

The Menu is taking his brain out of the vaults once more for its annual airing at The Great Irish Foodie Quiz 2014 (Oct 7@7.30pm). 

THE VOYAGE

Muskerry, Limerick and Doneraile are chasing elusive doubles at this weekend’s Munster finals of the AIG Irish Senior and Junior Cups, along with the Barton Shield, at Shannon Golf Club.

Castlemartyr in East Cork may have been founded in 2008 but they are already poised to win their first pennant when the Munster finals of the AIG Irish Senior Cup take place at Shannon GC next month.

A total of 1,375 applicants have applied for 80 recruit vacancies in the Naval Service, showing a career on the ocean waves is becoming a popular choice for young people.

I first joined Cork City FC in 1998 as a fresh and fit 18-year-old. Having come from a strong local Wilton United youths team in the city, I fancied my chances of making it into Cork City’s first-team squad.

Ship ahoy! Navy top brass have confirmed that key personnel will shortly be sent to Devon to familiarise themselves with technology onboard their newest vessel before taking her on sea trials later this month.

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For many of the players honoured in Croke Park yesterday as ‘Stars of the 80s,’ an All-Ireland senior football medal simply eluded them, while for a few of them it was never more than a dream.

Brian Carey arrived for the interview at a Cork hotel with a ready-made intro: by sheer coincidence, the Tuesday on which we were meeting turned out to be 24 years ago to the very day since he’d left his hometown, Cork, for England to begin a career in professional football which would take him to Manchester United, Leicester City, Wrexham, Doncaster Rovers and Wolves and see him experience almost all aspects of the game – from the glorious to the grim – as, variously, player, skipper, coach, scout, assistant manager and manager.

BELIEVE it or not, ladies, I’m turning 30 soon.

THE Cork senior footballers are holding a special Q&A session with current and past players in the Classic Bar, South Main Street tomorrow evening at 8.30pm.

DIE-HARD Cork fans issued a rousing rallying call to the Rebel army yesterday as they prepare to march on Croke Park.

WITH the roar that greeted Barney Rock’s equaliser ringing around Jones Road, Cork’s John Cleary recalls the scene.

Former Cork City player, skipper and manager Dave Barry has ruled himself out of taking on the role of first- team boss with the new Foras-owned club, which has yet to be named.

IT would have been an unthinkable scenario for the Rebel Army, of course, but Cork City’s George O’Callaghan could easily have finished this season wearing the maroon and blue of FAI Cup final opponents Drogheda United.