Once again, the severe weather claimed a number of Cork County League games as victims, with just two matches played today.

It’s a long way, geographically, from the small south Kerry village of Cromane to the gilded acres of California’s Stanford University. And an even greater cultural distance when one’s origins derived from deep poverty and forced emigration, only to transform in a single generation to the highest echelons of American academia.

Kerry global financial services company Fexco has opened a €21m research centre near its headquarters in Killorglin.

The Everyman hosts Ronan FitzGibbon’s play about singsongs along the Blackwater, writes Marjorie Brennan

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The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has predicted the public will face €6 carbon tax hikes every year over the coming decade despite the looming "significant threat" to the economy posed by a no deal Brexit.

The High Court has given two Traveller couples until 2pm tomorrow to remove their caravans from the vicinity of an unofficial halting site in Co Tipperary or face the prospect of being jailed for contempt.

The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has contracted a leading economist to determine what happens between the time beef leaves the farmer and when the consumer buys it.

Here is a selection of people who have moved into interesting new roles.

The High Court has made orders requiring members of the Travelling Community to vacate an unofficial halting in Co Tipperary by Tuesday of next week.

Tipperary County Council has brought High Court proceedings aimed at requiring members of the Travelling Community to vacate an unofficial halting site.

As the musical genre morphs into something exciting and unpredictable, thanks to inventive productions such as Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen and Hadestown, it is clear there is still plenty of room for experimentation within the form.

The fiscal hawks sounding the warnings must be heeded by the Government, says Kyran Fitzgerald, and public pay and capital expenditure must not be allowed to keep drifting up

As it morphs into something exciting and unpredictable, thanks to inventive productions such as Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen and Hadestown, it is clear there is still plenty of room for experimentation within the musical genre.

The Government's top economist has said the State may have to take special measures - including providing short-term finance - in order to protect businesses in the event of a disorderly Brexit delivering a severe economic shock.

Numerous people could have been killed on country roads by a wild escapade of dangerous driving and it is positively miraculous that the two young Limerick men in the stolen jeep were not killed, Judge Gerard O’Brien said as he jailed the driver for four years and the passenger for three years.

Growth in the economy has slowed and will slow further, forcing the Government to revise downward its growth forecasts for this year and next.

Green Reit shares climbed following its surprise decision to put itself on the market, but other stock market property listed firms failed to get a major lift.

It is a long time since an Irish Taoiseach - Charlie Haughey – was able to boast about the country’s youthful population, about the fact that half of us were aged under 25.

John McCarthy Campaigners say the Government must tackle what they are calling Ireland’s HIV crisis.

Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West is practically a period piece now, portraying an Ireland where cheaply-framed pictures of the Pope and JFK still hang on the yellowed walls, a packet of Tayto costs 17p and the local priest drops by to sip poitín at the kitchen table.

A 27-year-old man who admitted the manslaughter of his 22-year-old girlfriend was jealous and believed she had cheated on him, it was claimed during the opening of his trial for murder.

The Government only signed off on a €473,000 pension deal for the ex-boss of Irish Water after consulting with the Attorney General.

Glen Rovers 4-20 Ballymartle 1-9: Glen Rovers safely navigated their way into the third round of the Cork SHC at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

Ireland’s economic recovery is still being repeatedly overstated because profits from multinational companies are being included despite the fact the money is immediately transferred to owners in other countries.

Technology advances will lead to electric and hybrid vehicles “dominating” Irish roads in the future, an engineering expert has said — despite a survey showing uptake among drivers still remains low.

Just how does a busy parish operate in today’s Ireland? Clonakilty in West Cork is an example of the new model, writes Noel Baker

Frank McGuinnness’s 1992 play is a remarkable feat of the imagination

After 105 years in business, MacCarthy’s newsagents in Clonakilty closes on Christmas Eve, writes Noel Baker.

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The Department of Finance has been urged to demand the EU relaxes Ireland’s fiscal spending rules after senior officials admitted the housing crisis and other social issues are a “risk” that cannot be ignored.

A mosque in Limerick received verses from the Quran wrapped in slices of bacon in the post.

A small number of people are still receiving the controversial €100 water conservation grant, despite the payment being scrapped more than a year ago.

The head of the Department of Finance said incoming US president, Donald Trump, would change corporation tax rates there and this could affect Ireland.

As many as 40,000 jobs could be axed, the national debt could rise by €20bn, and food exports could be hit with up to 50% tariffs as a result of a hard Brexit, according to Department of Finance officials.

The cost to the State of funding Irish Water as its ‘sole customer’ would amount to some €1.2bn this year, a committee examining the future of water services heard.

They say no-one knows the son quite like the father, though it must be getting increasingly difficult for the elders of Dublin football to identify with their sons’ remarkable achievements.

Following ‘sale agreeds’ on two 1960s houses, one a detached, the other a semi-d, in the ‘old’ 1960s Bellair Estate off Douglas Road and by the start of Ballinlough Road in Cork, now comes a younger model, and a different house type too.

A father of five from Co Cork who has saved two people from drowning in separate incidents over the last decade, will be among 47 people from across the country who will today be rewarded for the bravery they showed in water rescues.