Pre-tax profits at rescued regional newspaper group, Celtic Media totalled just under €1.6m in its first year of operation, new figures show.

Cork County Board secretary Frank Murphy believes that the GAA’s new television deal with Sky will force RTÉ to improve its own output with regard to hurling and football, according to the Evening Echo.

Cork County Board secretary Frank Murphy believes that the GAA’s new television deal with Sky will force RTÉ to improve its own output with regard to hurling and football.

Cork are poised to name their new senior football manager at tonight’s board meeting but executive officials were last night remaining tight-lipped.

The county boards of Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford are to be asked to seek an emergency meeting of the Munster Council with a view to reversing the decision to re-introduce seeding in the province’s senior football championship.

Celtic Media Group, publisher of the Anglo-Celt, Meath Chronicle, and Westmeath Examiner newspapers, has been bought in a management buyout for €5.5m.

The Irish management team of Celtic Media Group has bought the business for €5.5m.

THE Cork County Board executive last night refused to accept a motion of no-confidence in the executive over their handling of the recent hurling dispute that had been proposed by the Ballyhea GAA Club.

IRISH property investment firm Ailesbury has completed a €10 million deal with the purchase of a marina in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

THE Cork-Tralee (N22) road has claimed its sixth life this year, making it the most dangerous road in the south of the country.

THE Cork-Tralee road, the N22, has claimed its sixth life this year, making it the most dangerous road in the south of the country and gardaí say that if large parts of it aren’t upgraded soon more lives will be lost.