Many thanks to the man who tipped me off about a new book coming down the tracks — Gaelic Games in Society: Civilising Processes, Players, Administrators, and Spectators by John Connolly and Paddy Dolan.

Leafing through a tome for 3.5 hours a week can add almost two years to your life, researchers have found. Margaret Jennings talks to people aged over 50 about their reading habits Reading by the book to expand your lifespan.

Des O'Driscoll has you covered on things to do this week.

Des O'Driscoll shares the latest news from the entertainment world.

It was sometime around 4am on the Sunday morning of the 1980 All-Ireland final when Sean Silke was jolted from his sleep.

Donations are pouring in to help fund a possible legal challenge to the controversial decision to grant planning for a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour.

David Walliams will also recive the ‘Bord Gáis Energy International Recognition Award on the night.

When the recession hit, as a public health service worker approximately 20% of my income was taken overnight.

A voracious reader, Shane always liked crime. He was first published aged 11, getting a story in a collection by children for children, but he was so badly teased for writing it, that he didn’t try again for many years.

Crime writer John Connolly has accumulated profits of almost €1m, his media firm’s accounts show.

Two personal injury claims by James Jordan, husband of Dublin Wives television star Jo Jo Jordan, for damages totalling €120,000 have been thrown out by a judge.

As holiday season kicks into gear, a number of broadcasters and authors tell Jonathan deBurca Butler which books they’ll be packing in their suitcase.

FOR much longer than millennia, islands have been a source of intrigue, writes Dan MacCarthy. Someone gazes out from the mainland wondering: “What is out there?”

Traumatised souls. Murderous housewives. Wise-cracking hitmen. Bloody revenge. It’s all there in this excellent collection of short stories from Irish crime writers.

“It’s all over, it’s all over. Galway are the National League champions, their third national league title and first in 24 years.”

Details of this year’s Mr Personality have officially been unveiled.

THE title of this novel appears generic and forgettable and almost indistinguishable from hundreds of others in the same field. 

The Cold War is heading for deep freeze as Bridge of Spies (12A) opens in 1957 with the capture of Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in New York. 

After a series of flops, Johnny Depp is back on track, portraying infamous Irish-American criminal, Whitey Bulger, writes Helen Barlow

The Ulster Council have hit back at suggestions they “disrespected” hurling by playing extra-time in Sunday’s AIB Ulster Club hurling final.

It is 40 years this weekend since Galway returned to hurling’s high altar, their 1975 All-Ireland final appearance bringing to an end the county’s 17-year wait for a September sojourn to Jones Road.

Fine Gael Oireachtas party chairman Dan Neville TD, who has announced that he will not seek re-election to the next Dáil, can claim to be the greatest survivor in Irish politics.

Ireland has been chosen as the 2017 venue for the prestigious International Space University, which will be attended by 260 delegates representing the space industry’s finest brains.

When the year ends in ‘5’, fate’s hand guides Cork fortunes in strange ways

In the real world Steve Cavanagh is a Belfast lawyer who explained to Declan Burke how an exceptional advocate can convince a jury black is actually white.

By John Connolly

AS a lawyer, Steve has conducted several high profile cases. In 2010, representing a factory worker, he won the largest award for damages in race discrimination in Northern Ireland’s legal history.

Sligo 2-26, Louth 2-9 Sligo kick-started their faltering Division 3 campaign with a sparkling defeat of Louth at Markievicz Park, their first win in four league outings.

Edited by Otto Penzler

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