RETIRED senior banker John Aherne was reminded at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday he could have facilitated criminal activity and money-laundering in the early 1990s by handing out vast amounts of cash.

AFTER a season which promised so much for Cork Harlequins, the club finished up with nothing to show from a year’s strenuous endeavour.

GLENANNE are in the process of formulating an appeal that they hope will allow star goalscorer Stephen Butler play in Saturday’s Irish Senior Cup semi-final against Cork Harlequins in Cork.

JOHN HOBBS is long enough in the tooth to know that in any sport, reputations are built onresults.

IT is more than a little ironic that Cork Harlequins ace striker Richard Gash and Cork Church of Ireland’s Mark Ruddle are best friends.

CONTROVERSIAL nursing home Leas Cross was bankrolled to the tune of nearly €5 million by the Department of Health, figures obtained by the Irish Examiner reveal.

AFTER a first half which promised so much, Cork Church of Ireland were overwhelmed 5-1 by Cork Harlequins in the Munster Senior League at Harlequins Park on Saturday.

LEAS CROSS was being used as an “overflow” facility for hospitals with a high number of admissions, the nursing home’s owner has claimed.

CONTROVERSIAL nursing home Leas Cross ran up losses of nearly €1 million last year.

INSPECTIONS of Leas Cross show that there was a “consistent pattern of deficits in care” at the home, according to Professor Des O’Neill’s investigation.

A SALE has been agreed on the controversial Leas Cross nursing home, which was exposed last year as providing sub-standard care. It is believed the site sold for at least €10 million.

Sean Nicholson and David Hobbs know each other from their schooldays and have played together for Ashton, Munster and Ireland. Today they put their friendship aside as their clubs, Harlequins and Church of Ireland, face-off in the Irish Senior Cup quarter-final. Declan Colley reports.

CORK Church of Ireland coach Denis Pritchard welcomes four internationals back for Saturday’s Irish Senior Cup fourth round tie away to Belfast Harlequins.

The last patients are being moved from Leas Cross nursing home in North Dublin this weekend.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has now identified homes for all of elderly residents of Leas Cross nursing home.

The owner if the Leas Cross nursing home in Swords, Co Dublin, has announced plans to close the facility at the start of next month.

THE owner of Leas Cross nursing home yesterday made a desperate bid to retain residents, offering its services free for six months.

THE health authorities had a highly critical report on the Leas Cross nursing home in Dublin almost a full year before a television programme exposed substandard conditions there, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has confirmed.

By Pat Brosnan

Dan Buckley on how long-term neglect has eroded care for our vulnerable senior citizens.

MINISTER for Older People Seán Power admitted yesterday that the inspections of nursing homes are “ridiculous” — especially the advance warning given to private nursing homes.

THE Health Services Executive (HSE) is investigating up to 100 complaints made about private nursing homes in the past year.

THE owner of the Leas Cross nursing home reported a profit of nearly €500,000 last year, a sevenfold increase on the previous year.

THE nursing home where an elderly woman developed bed sores from which she subsequently died is to refer all future bed sore cases to accident and emergency.

CORK HARLEQUINS made a winning start to the European Cup Winners’ Trophy tournament in Vienna yesterday, beating Swiss club Olten 2-0 in their opening game.

THE meeting of Stradbally and Kilmurry/Ibrickane in the AIB Munster Club SFC final in Thurles on December 5 is only the second time in the history of the provincial championship that no Cork or Kerry team will be involved.

HARLEQUINS have gone the extra yard in their efforts to win the Irish Senior Cup for the first time this season by recruiting David Passmore, a member of the British Association’s coaching staff.

LISNAGARVEY, favourites to win the Irish Senior Hockey Cup in Belfield today (2.30 pm), were yesterday described by Harlequins’ coach, Stephen Jackson, as the “aristocrats of Irish hockey”.