Kanturk’s Jackie Daly is a legendary master of the accordion. He tells Pet O’Connell about his 60-year career.

Retail sales of companies supported by the Food Academy programme are expected to top €25m in 2016, it was announced yesterday.

They are both workaholics, have two children each and, spookily, turned vegetarian on the same day even though they were on opposite ends of the planet.

Ten thousand people are expected to attend a two-day food forum which will showcase cooking demonstrations as well as provide a platform to promote offerings from Cork and Kerry-based producers.

Cork and Kerry Food Forum returns next month to celebrate the culinary spirit of both counties.

St Luke’s walls have witnessed more intrigue than a box-set of House of Cards, writes Michael Cifford

Start-up firms can now place products in SuperValu thanks to the new Food Academy, writes John Daly.

SEAWEED conjures up stories of a good day at the beach ruined by an encounter with slimy, smelly sea vegetation.

Take one celebrity chef, several local food producers, a handful of food start-ups, add a sprinkling of major retailers and the public to taste — and mix.

Battle Of Marengo laid down an early marker for the Investec Derby with a determined triumph in the P.W. McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown.

The Connecticut massacre is yet another reminder of the devastation and grief that can be wrought by guns that fall into the wrong hands.

A 28-year-old dairy farmer with a fondness for the annual “Pig and Porter” tag rugby competition has been chosen by Macra na Feirme as young farmer of the year.

The Emerald Expo 2012 is now one of the great landmark shows on the annual agricultural calendar organised by the Irish Holstein Friesian Association in association with Alltech Ireland.

Bertie Ahern will relinquish his grip on his St Luke’s fiefdom in the final act of his humiliating departure from the party he once dominated.

The infamous house once served as Bertie Ahern’s political power base, but now as the keys are handed over to Fianna Fáil, it stands as a lasting reminder of a period of dishonesty and corruption, writes Michael Clifford

The tribunal commended current minister and Labour TD Pat Rabbitte for giving back a £2,000 donation he received from lobbyist Frank Dunlop in 1992.

Beef exports from the EU to the US are likely to be permitted from next autumn, according to Joe Burke of Bord Bia’s meat division.

Hurricane Fly features among just six remaining entries for Sunday’s BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown.

Hurricane Fly features among just six remaining entries for Sunday’s BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown.

Rubi Light captured his first Grade One victory in tremendous style with a brilliant performance in the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown.

Arty McGlynn will showcase his hybrid mix of musical styles at the Ennis Trad Festival, says Gerry Quinn.

BANDON put on a five star performance to demolish Fr O’Neill’s in a one-sided county IHC final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh and in the process bury the ghosts of 2007.

THE final of the Cork IHC will be a repeat of the 2007 decider after Bandon finished well to see off St Catherine’s in their semi-final at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday and set up a meeting with Fr O’Neill’s.

OFFALY dairy farmer Kevin Heavin has been selected as Macra na Feirme’s FBD Young Farmer of the Year after an exciting final in the Seafield Hotel, Gorey, Co Wexford, last night.

AN otter found wandering in the main street of an east Clare village bit the hand of his rescuer as he tried to the creature to water.

IT was an All-Ireland Colleges semi-final to savour at the Claughaun Grounds, Limerick on Saturday with sweet, flowing football as St Jarlath’s of Tuam edged out battling Coláiste Chríost Rí to book a final date with holders St Colman’s, Newry.

Gagewell Flyer ran out an impressive winner of the Slaney Novice Hurdle at Naas in what was a mixed renewal of the Grade Two event for Willie Mullins.

BELEAGUERED regeneration vehicle the Dublin Docklands Development Authority has announced its chief executive Paul Moloney has stepped down.

CASHMANS rate Sea The Stars an odds-on shot to confirm Epsom form with Fame And Glory should they renew rivalry in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh later this month.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) is to be asked to comment on claims that it is planning to temporarily close the theatre and outpatients services at Bantry General Hospital as part of a cost-cutting plan.

THE people of Bantry should be given the same commitment to safeguard their hospital’s A&E services that has been given to the people of Tralee.

HE TOOK on the ESB and won. Now he’s taking on Mary Harney and the Health Service Executive (HSE) to save his local hospital.

BUSINESSMAN Joe Burke has resigned from his Government-appointed post of chairman of the Dublin Port Company.

Businessman Joe Burke is to step down as chairman of the Dublin Port Company, it emerged today.

CHARLIE SWAN’S One Cool Cookie, given a dashing drive by Davy Russell, landed the featured Wilf Dooly Chase at Tramore yesterday.

SOME material in a book by Sunday World Crime Editor Paul Williams entitled Crime Wars, which is on sale, is in criminal contempt of court orders and there will be consequences if it remains on sale, a High Court judge has said.

BANDON native Red Crowley played with Carbery against Glen Rovers in the 1971 county SHC and scored 1-6 from centre forward.