A sparkling performance from Newcestown last evening in Cloughduv put them back in the Cork Premier IHC after they made the most of their third and final chance.

Tracton 0-21 Aghabullogue 1-12

Bandon went for the kill right from the start and eased past Aghabullogue in the second PIHC first-round game at Cloughduv yesterday.

Neil Ronan was the hero for Ballyhea when his late free from the touchline sealed a 0-13 to 0-12 win over Newcestown in a heated Premier IHC meeting in Mallow yesterday.

An astonishing €22,000 per acre was made at auction last week for a 9 acre, unzoned field in the sleepy village of Inchigeelagh, Co Cork.

FORMER Cork senior football boss Larry Tompkins is one game away from claiming his first county title as a manager after his Mitchelstown side overcame Courcey Rovers 1-4 to 0-6 in dramatic fashion in the Cork JAFC semi-final in Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

KILBRITTAIN advanced to the next round of the Premier IHC as they finished strongly to overcome Inniscarra at Cloughduv yesterday.

Tributes were paid today to a young Cork man who drowned while on holiday in Morocco.

GARDA Commissioner Fachtna Murphy has announced a series of appointments at senior Garda management level.

THE four Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC) quarter-finals take place this afternoon with some cracking games in the offing.

ONE of Cork city’s best known characters has lamented the closure of the Beamish & Crawford brewery, saying Cork will lose part of its soul.

AS Ireland’s oldest brewery, Beamish & Crawford in Cork city prepares to close its doors, some of its most loyal customers were mourning its loss.

The Department of Foreign Affairs failed to abide by French employment laws when it sacked a long-serving staff member at the Irish embassy in Paris, its former Secretary General claimed tonight.

IT’S been a very good July for Church Cross, Skibbereen dairy farmer Jerry Hegarty. A couple of weeks ago he won his second All-Ireland Intermediate Road-bowling title in a titanic man-to-man struggle with Ulster champion Harry Toal.

ECHOES of a brave dead woman who lost her long battle with cancer just over a month ago can be heard on a CD she recorded shortly before her death.

Carlow: The ESB is to spend €100 million in counties Carlow and Kilkenny to upgrade the electricity transmission systems. The investment is part of a €3.5 billion national programme and will continue until 2005.

Aghabullogue 1-12, Courcey Rovers 2-8

Muskerry 4-15