St Finbarr’s 1-10 Dromtarriffe 1-9: A much improved second-half display was just about enough for St Finbarr’s in yesterday’s competitive Cork County Junior B inter-divisional hurling championship final at Páirc Uí Rinn.

A lecturer who won a landmark equality case against NUI Galway is to make her €70,000 award available to help five female colleagues similarly fight their cases.

Food and support services company, Compass Group Ireland, has signed a deal with Hodgins Foods in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, to provide sausages and black pudding products to its units countrywide.

LIAM BARRY and John Hodgins were last night ratified as selectors in Cork U21 hurling boss Ger Fitzgerald’s management team for the next two years.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN is determined to reclaim his title and the national record at Cork City Sports on Saturday when the mixed walk, which will also feature world silver medallist Olive Loughnane, will be one of the star attractions.

CORK City Sports fans could have the pleasure of seeing women’s hammer star Eileen O’Keeffe in action at this year’s event which takes place on July 3 at the CIT Track in Bishopstown.

OLYMPIC hammer thrower Eileen O’Keeffe could compete at the Cork City Sports with confirmation Ireland’s premier international track and field meeting will be held at the CIT Track in Bishopstown on July 3.

AMERICAN athletics chiefs are on the look-out for an Irish base for their Olympic team ahead of the London Olympics in 2012.

PAUL HESSION will get his new outdoor season under way tonight when he lines up for the 100m at the Primo Nebiolo Memorial Meeting which will be staged in Turin.

BUPA Cork City Sports has rocketed into up to third place on the European list of Permit Meetings and just below Grand Prix status, which is determined on budgets, attendances, appearance money and television coverage as well as performances on the track.

EXOTIC plants, brightly coloured pills, bongs and growing kits — the shelves on the Head Shop in Dublin’s Temple Bar are packed with everything the discerning drug user could possibly want.

GALWAY have been boosted by the return to competitive hurling of injury stricken forward Kevin Broderick ahead of tomorrow week’s All-Ireland semi-final against Kilkenny.

KELLY HOLMES has pulled out of Saturday’s BUPA Cork City Sports at the Mardyke because of the Achilles tendon problem that forced her out of the European Cup the weekend before last.

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LIMERICK County board chairman Denis Holmes has emphatically denied a Sunday newspaper report that former Clare hurling supremo Ger Loughnane was being lined up to take over as manager of Limerick in 2006.

IRELAND will face China, the team ranked fourth in the world, in the bronze medal match at the KT Cup in South Korea after beating Malaysia 4-0 yesterday.

IF Geraldine Hendricken is ready to run, she will be at The Mardyke on July 2.

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DOUBLE Olympic champion Kelly Holmes will compete at the BUPA Cork City Sports on July 2.

HIGH jump sensation Adrian O’Dwyer, was jumping for Olympic qualification in Algiers last week but on Saturday he will be jumping for joy at The Mardyke in Cork where he will again treat fans to the type of performance that saw him clear 2.30m and claim his place in Athens.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN will be looking to tomorrow’s 1500 metres at the BUPA Ireland Cork City Sports to measure her form following Tuesday night’s disappointing 3000m run in Lausanne, where she finished a remote ninth to runaway Russian Yelena Zadorozhnaya.

Former Galway hurling skipper Liam Hodgins has aggravated a thumb injury and faces another spell on the sidelines.

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BUPA Cork City Sports has been awarded Euro Meeting status following a glowing report presented to a recent EAA