The directors of the Maureen O’Hara foundation believe the company can be kept open in spite of acrimony surrounding the actress’s affairs.

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.

Over €1.2m in fines was doled out to some 420 taxpayers for failing to file returns, cigarette smuggling and selling, and for pub licensing offences.

The Maureen O’Hara Foundation has opened its books in order to refute allegations that it misappropriated funds.

She was the screen icon who put Ireland in the Hollywood limelight. But a battle over her legacy could take the shine off Maureen O’Hara’s glittering career. Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan reports

Penal reformers have called for reform of the Parole Board, saying the current system of appointment by the minister for justice undermines its independence.

The Irish film festival which honours screen icon Maureen O’Hara and hails Hollywood’s golden era has been cancelled at the eleventh hour.

A REUNION of the original cast of The Quiet Man takes place next month with the arrival of John Wayne’s family in Ireland.

FUNDRAISING is to start in the US within the next six weeks to help build a €8.6 million centre in west Cork which will be dedicated to one of Hollywood’s living legends.

ALMOST all her contemporaries from Hollywood’s Golden Era have passed away.

THE West Cork village of Glengarriff might seem like the polar opposite of the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but if one of Ireland’s most famous actresses has her way all of that is about to change.

A DIRECTOR of a company that owns a golf course and luxury holiday development in Co Cork has been ordered to appear before the Commercial Court to explain why he should not be jailed over failure to repay a €288,306 debt to a golf design company.

BLARNEY Golf Resort and Spa, the 164-acre integrated tourism development near Tower in Co Cork, is up for sale for €20 million.

A GOLF course builder who is staging a sit-in at a golf resort was ordered by the courts yesterday to end his protest.

THE man who blockaded a €40 million golf resort to secure almost €700,000 in court-awarded fees vowed last night to live on the course until its developers pay up.

A TOP golf course builder who blockaded a tourist town’s championship course yesterday said he is prepared “to do time” to secure the €500,000 he is owed.

A CASH-STRAPPED secondary school in Cork city owes a mammoth bill of €53,000 for water charges, despite paying €2,000 every year to the local authority, it has emerged.

FLAMBOYANT golf legend John Daly drove a few of his trademark big hits around the country’s newest golf course yesterday — the first he’s designed in Europe.

Golf superstar John Daly today opened the new €50m Blarney Golf Resort — the first course he has designed in Europe.

LAST week, promising young hurler Liam O’Regan wore his beloved Kilkenny jersey sitting his Leaving Cert.

Two slash hooks, a bolt-cutter, a saw, a golf club, a hurley, a wheelbrace and several other weapons were seized by gardaí during the eruption of violence today in an 18-month-old family feud in Cork.

ALTHOUGH lying only 26th on the American PGA Tour's qualifying list, John Daly is not ruling out making the American team for the Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills in September.

THE UCC football club will mark the conclusion of their celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the club’s foundation with matches against teams representing the famous Harvard and Princeton universities in America next week.

A MAGNIFICENT goal from full- back Paddy Nealon two minutes from time gave O’Donovan Rossa a deserved draw in this highly entertaining permanent tsb Cork SFC clash at Brinny yesterday.

CRIME does pay after all. Prison inmates in one of the country's largest jails were yesterday celebrating an unlikely windfall after the governor gave them a €13,000 retirement gift.