The Queen of Crime, the champion of Other Voices, and the driving force behind Cork’s Penny Dinners were just some of the leading lights honoured by UCC yesterday.

Jonty Evans remains in intensive care in Beaumont Hospital after a fall at Tattersalls International Horse Trials on Sunday.

“The only problem with territorialism as expressed by cats is that they do not co-operate with each other," writes Terry Prone.

A woman has described being shot in the neck as a Cork man went on trial on charges arising out a shot being fired through the front room window of a house in Cork City.

Missing British toddler Ben Needham is believed to have died as a result of an accident, police have said.

The mother of missing British toddler Ben Needham has said she now believes her son will not be found alive after disappearing on the Greek island of Kos 25 years ago.

British police searching for missing toddler Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos have said they now have permission to demolish part of a farmhouse and work will start very soon.

Dino-Daddy by Mark Sperring ( Bloomsbury €8.80)

Put the date in your diaries: Sun Jan 26 is the afternoon to anticipate as Cork City Hall sways to the good old days with Evelyn Grant and the Cork Pops Orchestra.

Lucia Lacarra tells Jo Kerrigan how she was inspired to be a ballerina by a little wind-up jewellery box.

I HAD 14 men in my bedroom this weekend. Separately, for the most part, although two brothers visited on Saturday at the same time.

IT’S all very well for you, so it is. You can sleep in on a bank holiday.

SO FAR, the score is one Waterford Glass tumbler, two plates and a cereal bowl.

THIS is about a dead cat. No more. No less. In the great scheme of things, it couldn’t be less important. Just a dead cat.

THE great thing about the offspring’s visit this weekend was that it eliminated any possibility of reading newspapers, thereby removing the need to take a stand on Pat Kenny’s salary, John O’Donoghue’s expenses or Batt O’Keeffe being U-turned by the Green Party.

ITALY will need to display character to handle the problems the Republic of Ireland will inevitably cause them in tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier at Croke Park, Gianluigi Buffon said last night.

GOODBYE Mr Chips! A veteran politician and chip shop mogul was accorded a civic reception last night ahead of his retirement after 30 years of public service.

No, I don’t know the names of the Brass Neck 10. I do have a list, of course. Everybody does. How many are on your list? Mine has 13 people on it. One way or the other, I’m tearing it up.

Doctor Dino warms up for an ambitious globetrotting campaign with a run in the Lucien Barriere Grand Prix de Deauville over an extended mile and a half on Sunday.

Doctor Dino is to run at Chantilly on Sunday after being ruled out of the Juddmonte Coronation Cup at Epsom due to the prospect of unsuitable ground.

AIDAN O’Brien was not too downhearted after Dylan Thomas failed to produce a fairytale ending to a superb career in the Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin.

Aidan O’Brien was not too downhearted after Dylan Thomas failed to produce a fairytale ending to a superb career in the Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin.

FINE GAEL TD Simon Coveney has been painted in a less than flattering light in a new book written by one of his own party colleagues.

THIS bank holiday weekend was doomed from Saturday morning. That was when I noticed Gay Mitchell had changed colour. He was flesh-coloured on his election posters last week. This week, he’s turned a spectacular seasick green.

An armed gang has escaped with an undisclosed sum of money after a raid on a chip shop in Ballincollig, Co Cork.

"It was a daunting prospect, but I think it sort of worked out," veteran British actor Anthony Hopkins says about revisiting Hollywood’s favourite psychopath, Hannibal Lecter, for a third time.