A flood-affected community has vowed to fight any plans to build on a sensitive site before a major flood prevention study is completed.

Details of a proposed €11m plan to combat flooding in East Cork will include the building of walls and embankments.

A YEAR after their lives were turned upside down by extensive flooding, residents and business owners across Cork still live in fear every time heavy rain is forecasted for their towns.

Three new players have been called up for Cork’s challenge game against UCC tonight at the Mardyke.

Top Irish boxing coach Billy Walsh fears children are being forced to choose between sports at too young an age.

One hundred tonnes of timber clogging a Cork river poses a serious threat to public safety in the event of a flood.

A Cork GAA club has been ordered to remove a new rock embankment or face the possibility of High Court action by the local authority.

Two community groups in Co Cork have expressed concern that “fish before people” red tape may prevent vital flood prevention works.

A solicitor offering his services free to flood victims in a Cork town said almost all claims for liability have been accepted by insurance companies.

People whose homes and businesses were affected by last month's flash floods in Cork have been told they will be able to apply to a humanitarian fund for help.

A day can be a long time in greyhound racing and it was never better exemplified than on Tuesday night at Wimbledon where an Irish monopoly on the Williamhill.com English Derby was reduced to a strong Irish participation as two of our top fancies Mesedo Blue and Barefoot Bullet went crashing out of the classic.

The Williamhill.com English Derby will reach the semi-final stage next Saturday when the third round is run at Wimbledon and hopes of an Irish victory in the classic are sky high following another very successful weekend for the raiding party.

THE Hegarty Bookmakers 600 dominates the home racing scene this week but there will also be huge interest in the progress of our numerically very strong team which will be on duty in the second round of the Williamhill.com English Derby at Wimbledon.

DERVAL O’ROURKE will be one of the stars in action when her club, Leevale AC, stages its Annual Sports at the CIT track, Bishopstown, on April 18.

FERRYBANK’s Ann O’Shea was in record-breaking form at the Woodie’s DIY Juvenile Indoor championships in Nenagh at the weekend.

Former selector John Owens has been unveiled as Tipperary's new senior footballer manager.

WARNINGS of a deteriorating situation in regard to the coaching of games at primary and second-level in the schools in Cork were the feature of debate at yesterday’s Cork GAA convention at Páirc Uí Chaiomh.

A 30-YEAR-OLD man shot dead by his new neighbour had contacted gardaí in the days before his death, fearing trouble last Saturday when he went to erect a fence on land he’d bought from his killer’s family.

STUNNED locals were stuck for words and few could comprehend how or why a bitter, protracted dispute over land could spark a murder and a suicide in the close-knit community of Coolyhune on the Carlow/Kilkenny border.

A KILLING, a garda siege, the besieged killer taking his own life — the sequence of events whose final tragic outcome was the pointless waste of two lives is a not unfamiliar drama.

OPPOSITION politicians have demanded an independent investigation into garda failure to have a trained negotiator at the scene of a murder where the killer turned the shotgun on himself hours later.

New Tipperary manager Seamus McCarthy has vowed to reunite the Premier footballers in the wake of the Andy Shorthall saga of the summer.

Séamus McCarthy was last night ratified as the new Tipperary football manager at a meeting of the county board.