Career opportunities in the engineering industries in the Mid-West will be showcased at an event in Limerick next week.

Former Round the World race skipper and professional sailor Joe English has died, aged 58.

Breton entry Inis Mor is almost certain to be declared the overall winner of the 704-mile Round Ireland Race this weekend after Bernard Gouy’s team could not be beaten on handicap by the remaining boats still at sea.

ERIC Lisson is not in the least bit disingenuous when revealing he and his six-man crew expected to win this year’s BMW Round Ireland Race.

Seamus Murphy is to stay on as Wexford hurling manager for the second year of his two-year term with the county's senior panel.

GAA PRESIDENT Sean Kelly has backed novel rule changes for next year’s secondary provincial competitions which could trigger the introduction of the sin-bin into Gaelic games.

DESPITE economic gloom, there’s a strong market still for €1-million-plus homes in Cork city.

WITH the waves lapping up at the back garden boundaries on high tide, and an indoor swimming pool alongside, Tideways has literally been floated on the market pitched at the executive family home sector.

DESPITE light and variable winds and early tides, 85 boats raced in the Cove SC John McCarthy Motorpoint annual race from Cobh to Blackrock village on the outskirts of Cork City.