Two prisoners at Cork Prison were caught in possession of mobile phones during routine searches and each got a two-month term added his sentence.

A webcam in a Cork apartment recorded two burglars taking socks from a drawer to wear as gloves while they searched the house.

Imagine celebrating Ireland’s national apostle, not in March, but in high summer.

This was a convincing return to fortunes for Na Piarsaigh whose fourth senior county title never really looked in doubt in the Gaelic Grounds.

A former Christian Brother has gone on trial in Cork on charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s. The judge and jury were told yesterday of the complainant’s nightmares of ghosts of men in black.

AIB All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final: Kilmallock (Limerick) 2-19 Portaferry (Down) 0-12: Expect one Limerick town to be empty on St. Patrick’s Day.

Kilmallock 1-15 Na Piarsaigh 0-14

Na Piarsaigh 2-13 Kilmallock 2-12

Kilmallock 0-18 Knockainey 0-03

Two men who attended a Christmas Eve party died within hours of each other from a lethal combination of methadone and tablets.

Five Chinese men have been remanded in custody in connection with a garda raid on a cannabis growhouse in North Cork last Monday.

Kilmallock 1-15 Adare 0-15

Kilmallock 4-24 Na Piarsaigh 4-13

THE CELTIC CAMINO IN WATERFORD AND TIPPERARY

KILMALLOCK were sensationally dethroned as Limerick senior hurling champions last evening by former kingpins, Patrickswell.

CHAMPIONS Kilmallock have one foot in the quarter-finals of the Limerick senior hurling championship after defeating Garryspillane in a repeat of the 2005 final.

CAVAN attacker Seanie Johnston has emerged a major doubt for their All-Ireland SFC round 1 qualifier against Wicklow on Saturday evening in Kingspan Breffni Park after suffering a recurrence of an elbow injury.

FORMER Taoiseach Charles J Haughey turned up at a meeting between developer John Byrne and senior officials of Dublin Co Council, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

Clive Brittain’s Kandidate and Robbie Osborne’s Latino Magic head the English and Irish challenge in Thursday night’s Group Two Al Fahidi Fort over a mile on the Nad Al Sheba grass.

PAT HUGHES’ Spanish John was always an odds-on chance for the Bourn Vincent Memorial Park Maiden Hurdle at the first stage of the Killarney Festival last night and he proved much too good for moderate rivals in the hands of local hero Jim Culloty.