Pádraig Kearns knew what he was letting himself in for. Mind you, knowing what the task entails doesn’t make the job any easier.

The Minister for Agriculture has said climate change could mean more extreme weather events such as the flooding seen in Donegal this week.

Hours before the removal took place of the volunteer coastguard who died in the line of duty on Monday, the wreckage of the Irish Coast Guard rescue boat was recovered.

Bishopstown 1-9 Clyda Rovers 0-8: This fourth-round Cork SFC game at Páirc Uí Rinn Saturday proved an endurance test for both teams. Similarly for neutrals, with the worst excesses of the modern game in terms of ‘blanket’ covering, body-checking an obsession with hand-passing and, additionally, an undercurrent of bad feeling which saw two of seven players yellow-carded eventually shown a red card, another black-carded and several more escape censure.

A banqueting manager at the Shelbourne Hotel said he noticed threads hanging from a painting in one of their function rooms and took a picture of the damage on his phone.

Cork Premier IHC: Kanturk 0-21 Kilworth 1-16

A 26-year-old Dublin woman died from the toxic effects of cocaine and PMA — the amphetamine known as Dr Death — an inquest heard.

A man has to be tough in order to survive a week at one of the country’s longest-running festivals and prove he was what it takes before being allowed to chaperone elegant young women.

Sean Dineen is the surprise inclusion in the Cork senior football squad for the championship.

Colm O’Neill will make his first start of the year for the Cork footballers in Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 clash with Mayo at Elverys MacHale Park (throw-in 2.30pm).

Cork 0-16 Kildare 1-12

Donal Óg Hodnett is the only debutant in the Cork side named to take on Westmeath in their Allianz Football League Division 1 opener at Páirc Uí Rinn on Sunday (2pm).

Clare have included just two of their All-Ireland winning team in their side for tomorrow’s Waterford Crystal Cup quarter-final against Limerick in Sixmilebridge.

Kanturk 2-22 Éire Óg 1-12

Cork are poised to line out with an unchanged team when they meet Dublin in Saturday night's much-anticipated All-Ireland SFC quarter-final at Croke Park (throw-in 7pm).

Cork manager Conor Counihan has made six personnel changes to his team for Saturday's All-Ireland SFC fourth round qualifier against Galway at Croke Park (throw-in 5pm).

Cork manager Conor Counihan has selected an unchanged team for their Munster SFC final showdown with Kerry in Killarney on Sunday (throw-in 2pm).

There is a fresh look to the Cork team to face Limerick in tomorrow night's Munster SFC quarter-final at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 7pm).

Ilen Rovers 0-09 Bishopstown 0-08

Kerry 0-11 Cork 0-7, Tralee

Veteran Cork defender Noel O'Leary will make his first start of the Allianz League campaign in Sunday's Division 1 duel with Down in Newry (throw-in 2pm).

Conor Counihan will be without his three U21 players for Sunday’s Division One trip to Newry.

Cork manager Conor Counihan has stuck with the team he originally named to face Dublin for tomorrow night's Allianz League encounter with Kildare at Páirc Uí Rinn (throw-in 7pm).

Damien Cahalane is the most notable inclusion in the Cork football side for Sunday’s McGrath Cup game with Cork IT.

Denis Lynch will not be among the show jumpers meeting with Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) personnel in Dublin today, according to his brother Shay, as the governing body prepares to advertise the Ireland manager’s job.

Kilworth have been knocking on the Cork IHC door for a few years now and yesterday in Páirc Uí Rinn they finally knocked it down.

Kanturk 2-15 Fr O’Neills 1-15

Five goals and a spectacular second-half display from Kanturk saw them breeze past Éire Óg in their Cork IHC round two encounter in Mallow last night.

Duhallow 2-11 Carbery 1-8(AET)

It was a long time coming, but Bishopstown’s first Cork SFC win over Nemo Rangers on Saturday night was surely worth the wait.

A MAN as strong and old as some of the trees he’s planted was honoured yesterday for his remarkable service to Irish forestry over 70 years.

TERESA KEANE, the mother of five-year-old Marie Keane-Connolly, was unable to hold back the tears when she knelt and placed flowers at the scene where her daughter had died in a fire just hours before.

GARDAÍ are treating the house fire which claimed the life of a five-year-old girl in Boyle, Co Roscommon, as suspicious.

SHELBOURNE moved seven points clear in the First Division but it took a controversial Philly Hughes penalty to separate them from nearest rivals Monaghan in a tense duel at Gortakeegan.

WATERFORD UNITED lost their fourth game of the season last night as 10-man Shelbourne moved to the top of the Airtricity League of Ireland First Division thanks to a Philly Hughes strike at the RSC last night.

PARENTS who have been campaigning for almost 20 years for a permanent new school for their children are taking their fight to the streets.

The owner of a haulage company in Donegal has said he will stage a major blockade across the entire country if the new government does not address the price of fuel.

Westmeath stumbled in the second half as Kildare overturned a half-time deficit to qualify for next Sunday's O'Byrne Cup final, while last year's runners-up Louth beat UCD in the other semi-final.

Cork defender Michael Shields, who skippered the Rebels to National Football League honours last year, is set to miss the opening stages of the 2011 campaign due to pre-arranged travel plans.

ALAN O’CONNOR and Kevin McMahon are the only two members of Cork’s All-Ireland senior football winning squad set for action for the Rebels’ 2011 season bow in Sunday’s McGrath Cup opener against Waterford IT at Páirc Uí Rinn.

THE prestigious Limerick Lady title was won last weekend by John McLoughlin, Falduff, Louisburgh, Co Mayo, with his home-bred qualifier at Westport Show, by Grosvenor Lad out of Falduff Lady.