Bandon Grammar 7 - St Munchin’s College 5: Ever-improving Bandon Grammar School laid down another marker with a sensational victory over unlucky St Munchin’s in yesterday’s thrilling Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup first round tie at Bandon RFC.

PBC Cork 12 Bandon Grammar School 3: Underdogs Bandon Grammar School underlined the rise of West Cork rugby with a gallant effort in defeat in a tense Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final clash at Musgrave Park.

Bandon Grammar School 17, St Munchin’s College 13: Bandon Grammar School created their own special piece of history on a wet and windy afternoon at Bandon RFC yesterday when they advanced to the Clayton Hotels Munster Senior Schools Cup semi-final for the first time.

 This modern country bungalow comes with paddocks and an orchard, says Tommy Barker.  

The gently undulating landscape lying to the north of Cork city has a mix of farm and industrial life.

Éamon Bowen secured the last semi-final place in the Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads with a clear win over Aidan Murphy in the Mick Barry Cup final at Ballincurrig on Sunday.

Christy Mullins had a decisive win over James O’Donovan at Shannonvale.

FOOD, be it the biscuits our grandmother gave us, the tea our mothers bought, or our favourite summer ice-creams, has a hugely important place in our memories, even more so for emigrants.

A beautiful, old-world white-washed courtyard complex of outbuildings and up to 15 stables comes with Spitalfields House — a real, genuine Georgian home near North Cork’s Buttevant, about 15 minutes from Mallow off the Cork-Limerick road. 

A rural community has united to enter the digital age.

Recently, the cluster started a new initiative called Adopt-a-School and Kehlan talked with Denis about what it aims to do.

Cork is losing out on substantial foreign direct investment due to insufficient technology infrastructure, according to a leading technology expert.

An Irish woman who has risen to the top echelons of Twitter’s global executive ranks will address a special tech conference in Cork next month.

Cork needs to work to keep the IT professionals from Big Fish Games in the region to foster the growth of the technology sector, according to IT@Cork member John Dennehy.

Galway’s Dean Raftery and Monaghan’s Daniel McKenna and Stephen Wright have been shortlisted for the 2012 Billy Coleman Award with a top prize of €50,000.

Ireland is on the cusp of a technology boom that will generate thousands of high-quality jobs over the next decade, according to EMC, the big data and cloud computing multinational that employs more than 2,500 people in Ireland.

Multinational companies are calling on the Government to ease restrictions on immigration to fill skills gaps and boost growth in IT, science, and engineering sectors.

IT companies can generate six jobs in the general economy for every one high-tech job created, according to it@cork analysis.

Work visas are key to solving our economic crisis, according to a leading IBM executive who reckons that, in five years time, the Irish tech sector could plug the hole in the budget deficit.

THE IT industry is alive and well in Ireland and will continue to grow.

WAYNE Callanan led all the way to a bowl of odds win over Trevor O’Meara in the Mother Hegarty Cup final at Lyre.

TOP horse exhibitor at last year’s Dublin Horse Show, Seamus Lehane, continued his domination of shows in his native West Cork, at last week’s Carbery Show in Skibbereen.

BUDDING technology entrepreneurs and small hi-tech and internet businesses in Cork are being offered a chance to show their wares on a trade mission to Chicago next year.

YOU can take a winner at Clonakilty Agricultural Show anywhere.

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A NEW initiative, entitled Innovation That Matters, has been launched by it@cork, in association with Cork County Council and Barlogue Consultancy Services.

MUNSTER’S leaders in technology have been celebrated for their contribution to the technology sector in an award ceremony for those who are driving success in the area.

JAMES Buckley beat James O’Donovan in the last shot of a sensational Mick Barry Cup final at Ballincurrig on Sunday.

THE Netherlands won the Meydan FEI Nations Cup at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show yesterday followed by Ireland in joint second place with the United States of America.

DAVID MURPHY won the Jerry Desmond Cup final at Grange on Saturday where he beat Gavin Twohig by a bowl of odds.

WEST Cork exhibitor Seamus Lehane had a highly successful visit to Limerick Show, where he took both the young horse and filly championships.

Attorneys for convicted former vice presidential aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby began working on a request for a new trial today as the Bush White House tried to knock down speculation about a possible pardon in the CIA leak case.

KEEN competition among cattle and horse exhibitors from West Cork was a feature of the Ballyvourney-Coolea show last weekend.

TWO of the country's largest retailers have reported mixed results for the past year.

KILFEACLE have gone clear at the top of the First Division of the Heineken Munster Junior League and their clash with second place Bruff in two weeks time, looks like having a big bearing on the destination of this season’s title.

THE first of several possible championship clashes between Kerry and Cork this year takes place at Dunmanway, Co. Cork tomorrow in the Munster inter-county vocational schools SFC final (2.30).