Please allow me to acknowledge the tremendous achievement, both on and off the field, by Cork City FC. 

Thousands of students from every corner of the country are beginning their first year at college. Arlene Harris talks to four people at the top of their field to find out how they got to where they are today, and what advice they would give to first year students.

THE heron has taken the fish from the ornamental pond, while the fox has just taken the laying hen this month.

A LEGENDARY boat builder’s dying wish was fulfilled when he was carried to his final resting place on the last boat he completed.

BUSINESSMAN Tom Gilmartin yesterday denied inventing his evidence to the Mahon Planning Tribunal because he was jealous of the success of rival Cork-based property developer, Owen O’Callaghan.

JUST before Christmas, while rummaging through a secondhand bookshop, I found a copy of Hiding Behind A Face - Fine GaelUnder FitzGerald.

THE recent disclosures at the Moriarty Tribunal would hardly have been newsworthy if Charlie Haughey had not accepted money from Ben Dunne.

THE Moriarty Tribunal has heard that former Revenue chairman, Seamus Paircéir, argued down the valuation put on the Dunnes Stores family trust by his own officials by around £40 million.

Brody Sweeney, Group CEO of highly successful O'Brien's Irish Sandwich Bars, this week announced that he was joining Fine Gael and planning to run for the Dáil. Will sandwiches and politics mix? Kyran Fitzgerald reports.

WHATEVER you do, don’t call Roy Disney a Mickey Mouse operator. The 73-year-old nephew of the famous Walt has heard all the bad jokes before and they don’t get any funnier in the retelling.

The newly-elected Fine Gael MEP Simon Coveney said today he would not resign his Dáil seat because there was no public appetite for a by-election.

Fine Gael TD Simon Coveney has been elected to the European Parliament in the South constituency.

THE Coveney farm and family home at Minane Bridge in Cork is being sold, in a record-making deal worth up to €6 million.

Copies of the Ansbacher report are being bought in their hundreds by interested law firms and members of the public.

A long-awaited report into the biggest financial and political scandal to hit Ireland was published today, exposing the names of 200 clients who held accounts with a ‘‘sham’’ bank.