It was an historic day in Austin Stack Park as Kerry condemned four times Liam McCarthy Cup winners Offaly to Christy Ring Cup hurling in 2020 when they won this Joe McDonagh dogfight and maintained their second-tier status for another year.

Almost half of the candidates running in the Kerry local elections are sitting councillors, reports Anne Lucey.

Just hours before pledging support for his successor, the Bishop Emeritus of Cork and Ross was visiting the sick in Cork University Hospital, supporting, among others, a man from West Cork who had lost several fingers in a horrific lawnmower accident.

Eoin English Promises to open dialogue with the young — ‘future of the Church’

John Buckley, 79, has served the Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross as bishop for over 20 years.

LIMERICK city’s flagship urban renewal project, Gardens International, is 50% tenanted on its official launch this week, anchored by Nordic Aviation Capital, with the remainder of its c 10,000 sq m under active negotiation.

Paddys of all ages donned the patron saint’s costume and marched through Cork city today to celebrate the restoration of the city’s landmark St Patrick’s Bridge.

The memorial event also served to highlight the simmering sense of injustice felt by many, writes Noel Baker.

Cork champions Charleville had too much pace and firepower for a depleted Lixnaw side in Saturday’s AIB Munster Club IHC semi-final.

A man acting as a carer for an 81-year-old wheelchair-bound neighbour was fined €1,200 and given a suspended five-month jail term for using the pensioner’s bank card to steal cash.

A married woman in the process of separation was terrified when her husband and a “mad-looking” man wearing a foxy wig and headband banged the roof and windows of the van in which she sat with a friend.

Public pressure continued to mount on the GAA yesterday with more public figures from the world of sport, politics, and beyond calling on the organisation to allow a tribute match to the late Liam Miller take place at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Pope Francis has appointed the Very Reverend Thomas Deenihan, a priest of the Diocese of Cork & Ross, as the new Bishop of Meath.

The Joe McDonagh Cup is fast becoming a wide-open competition, with each participant having the ability to beat the others amid a surprise result in each round.

The Catholic Bishop of Cork and Ross has asked priests to suspend the ‘sign of peace’ handshake during Masses and religious ceremonies amid fears that a new strain of the flu virus has hit Ireland.

The €10.5m regeneration of a historic convent and school as a heritage centre has been described as a living showcase of one of Ireland’s greatest social justice pioneers.

They christened a bridge after Christy and bored a tunnel in the name of Jack, so surely it’s time to re-name the Inniscarra Dam in honour of the local legend, the most decorated player in GAA history?

Laois secured their third straight win in this Leinster SHC Round Robin qualifier and advance with confidence to face Wexford in the Leinster SHC quarter-final. 

“It is a place we all love coming back to. It has unbelievable memories for us.”

A 79-year-old housebound man who is confined to a wheelchair had his Visa card used without his knowledge by a neighbour who was ostensibly acting in a caring capacity.

Update 9pm: John Buckley has been located safe and well.

Developer Owen O’Callaghan has been described as a humble man of integrity and a true gent who support many charities discreetly and charmed all those he met.

The prevalence of suicide, declining vocations, and Mass attendance are just some of the issues that the country’s bishops will discuss with senior Vatican officials when they travel to Rome tomorrow for a 10-day pilgrimage.

One of Ireland’s longest-serving Catholic bishops said he would have no difficulty if the Church allowed priests to marry.

It was a simple and dignified ceremony, straight-forward and to the point with little or no fuss, one he himself would have been proud of.

Whenever Dan McCarthy came back to Iveleary from the US, he brought his camera with him. He shows Helen O’Callaghan the pictures he took.

A second man is being questioned by gardaí investigating the shooting of Ciara Sheehan in Cork at the weekend.

Westmeath staged a strong second-half display, to maintain their unbeaten run in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship at Austin Stack Park, Tralee this afternoon.

It is now 5O years since I started working for the Irish Sugar factory in Mallow. My first day working there was October 8, 1965. I was trained into the quality control section. Some of my colleagues were Tadgh Quill BSC who was chief chemist and John Buckley RIP was the quality supervisor and also the chairman of Mallow Urban District Council.

Several Limerick property investments, including two Travelodge hotels, developed in the mid 2000s and controlled by the Cracken Properties group have come to market with agent DTZ Sherry FitzGerald’s Limerick and Dublin offices.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross, John Buckley, wants the body of “Little Nellie” to be exhumed from its grave at the now-derelict Good Shepherd Convent site in Sunday Well (Irish Examiner, 18 August).

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has called for the exhumation of the remains of Little Nellie — the “unofficial patron saint” of Cork — from a cemetery on lands controlled by receivers to allow people to pray at her grave.

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Karen Buckley’s father described Alexander Pacteau as ‘truly evil’ after the killer admitted repeatedly hitting her with a spanner and trying to dispose of her body in a bath of chemicals. In an emotional speech outside of court, John Buckley, who travelled with his wife Marian and three sons for the hearing said there are no words to describe what the family went through.

Officers had to contend with a mountain of fabrications by a serial liar who meticulously planned getting away with murder. Joe Leogue reports from Glasgow

The final of the Rockybay Munster Hurdle produced a worthy winner as Comeout Russell smashed the track record with a tremendous display.