Weekly freesheet The Cork News has announced last Friday’s publication was its final issue, and the paper is to close.

Aidan O’Brien’s Coach House, who made a very promising debut when second at the Curragh, was taken from 4-6 to 2-5 in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Tipperary last night and won with any amount in hand.

Water buffalo normally found roaming the wild plains of Asia have adapted to life on a West Cork farm as part of a new venture to introduce buffalo meat to the Irish palate.

The once-raced Johnny Lynch can get us away to the ideal start by landing the Jet O’Carroll Memorial Median Auction Maiden at Listowel today.

The Bowerbird gigs at Triskel Christchurch feature both veterans and hot new talents of the genre, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

HE MAY not have featured prominently on the inter-county stage this summer, but Bryan Sheehan’s star dazzled at club level in yesterday’s Kerry SFC third-round tie in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

MIKE FRANK RUSSELL, still boyish after all these years, continues to manage a startled look when faced with a tape recorder.

ANY chance Kerry can get back to football? Don’t hold your breath, but if there are two GAA teams capable of serving up the best of Kingdom fare in tomorrow’s AIB county SFC final in Tralee, they are An Ghaeltacht and Laune Rangers (3pm).