The senior hurling clubs in Cork would do well to take note of Kanturk’s seasonal odyssey.

A “once in a lifetime” season, a “once in a lifetime” opportunity at the end of it.

Dreaming of the double. And why wouldn’t they? Two steps more and either Kanturk or Mallow will celebrate the most successful year in their club’s respective history.

‘And when white moths were on the wing, and moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream, And caught a little silver trout’

Legions of fans are expected to line the streets of Macon, Georgia, as music legend Gregg Allman is carried to his final resting place in the same cemetery where he and his band members used to hang out and write songs amid the tombstones.

A 60-year-old man has been described as carrying out despicable thefts around the country — particularly one where he stole €1,000 from a 79-year-old woman in Bantry who acted as a Good Samaritan and took pity on him.

Rhianna Pratchett is guest of honour at Dublin’s Octocon, writes Caroline Delaney

A shotgun owner lost his firearms certificate because he failed to declare that there had been a safety order against him.

A former care worker, who was convicted and fined for kicking an autistic man while trying to break up a fight between residents of a Cork care home, has lost his appeal against being fired from his job.

An unruly teenager who spat at gardaí and bit one officer on the shoulder also dropped his pants and exposed his backside to a Garda car during a disturbance.

A 35-year-old man who would not take no for an answer at a city centre pub picked up a stool and smashed a front window of the premises and yesterday he was ordered to pay compensation.

A woman threatened to set her dogs on gardaí and she later attacked an officer by kicking him and scratching his neck with her nails until she drew blood.

A 59-year-old man was charged yesterday with having cannabis for sale or supply on Barrack St in Cork City, and is required to stay away from the street and surrounding streets as a condition of his bail.

The wait for a fairytale goes on. But oh how close New York came to making history in the Bronx last night.

A 54-year-old man under court order to stay away from his ex-wife went to the canteen at her workplace and demanded she return her wedding ring to him.

Gardaí investigating a reported assault on a rickshaw driver in Cork city centre encountered two men smiling and punching the air, and banging at a phone kiosk.

Four youths were arrested and charged over fire damage worth €250,000 to a pub in Cork.

A firm of insurance brokers is entitled to damages against a Cork-based firm of solicitors over negligent handling of litigation, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The amount of damages will be decided later by the High Court.

Killester produced a season best performance last week to thrash Belfast Star in the Men’s Premier National Cup and will hope to build on that effort tomorrow when they travel to play Moycullen, whose coach is still fuming about the treatment of his players last week.

120 homeless people took Mrs Duane up on the offer and enjoyed a three-course meal of appetizers, salads, salmon, gnocchi and tri-tip steak.

It was meant to the biggest day of 27-year-old Quinn Duane’s life - the day she walked up the aisle to marry her fiance Landon Borup.

An elderly businessman whose family was threatened and savagely beaten by a gang says he believes the gang who terrorised the Corcoran family in Tipperary should never be released from prison.

THE last thing the Catholic diocese of Cloyne in East Cork needs is another scandal.

The first lay person to assume the position of child protection officer in the Catholic diocese of Cloyne has resigned in a dispute over the handling by Bishop William Crean of the case of defrocked priest Dan Duane.

A man was charged with obstructing gardaí in a drugs probe by allegedly refusing to give them passwords for three mobile phones.

Kanturk 2-10 Valley Rovers 1-13: Two late points from sub Richie Butler secured Valley Rovers a draw in their Cork Premier IHC quarter-final with Kanturk in Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

A former postmaster at Crosshaven post office appeared at Cork District Court yesterday on sample charges arising out of the alleged theft of payments to pensioners using the post office.

A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of a young Kerry man who was granted bail to attend his mother’s funeral but failed to turn up in court yesterday.

A former care worker has been convicted and fined €500 for kicking an autistic man in the back as he tried to separate him and another resident involved in a fight.

History is repeating itself in reverse as immigrants to Ireland begin changing their names to westernised versions.

A busker making money at 3am in Cork city centre, with up to 60 people dancing on the street around him, took exception to the gardaí dispersing the crowd.

Armed gardaí rushed to a housing estate in Douglas, Cork, where residents reported hearing gunshots.

The Vatican has rejected an appeal by a former priest against his dismissal from the priesthood over child sex abuse.

The Vatican has rejected an appeal by a former-priest in the diocese of Cloyne against dismissal from the priesthood over child sexual abuse.

Emergency 999 calls were made repeatedly for an hour by a Corkman who, became abusive when approached by gardaí.

In the 50s I was a young barman. At the time there was no tv and the radio was for news only, so there were lots of discussions between patrons.

Cork Premier IHC: Kanturk 0-21 Kilworth 1-16