Residents and businesses have endured 18 months of disruption while the town centre got a facelift. A street carnival next weekend should show everyone in the West Cork town that the wait was worth it, writes Noel Baker

The man behind the success of the renowned Clonakilty Black Pudding is to have a street named after him in the town.

From redheads to wet heads — the main organisers of Ireland’s biggest festival of foxiness got in on the ice bucket craze sweeping the nation yesterday.

Redheads are more likely to be bullied because of their hair colour with so-called gingerism still considered the last, socially accepted form of prejudice, new Irish research has found.

The Menu is very honoured to be joining the renowned food writer Lilly Higgins, Bakestone chef/proprietor Ali Honour and Iyer’s Café chef/proprietor, Gautham Iyer, to deliver an exclusive multi-course cooking demo, one course apiece (June 27), in the Brennan’s Cookery School, in Cork, with a healthy sample of each dish for all in the audience.

It’s a far cry from stainless steel and hi-tech kitchen gadgetry. One West Cork restaurant chef is to dig a large pit, line it with stone, build a blazing bonfire and cook a bullock.

Cork City 2 Waterford United 0

Any epicurean entrepreneurs on the verge of bringing another fine product to the Irish food marketplace would do well to trot along to a very promising Outstanding By Design seminar (May 10), at Highbank Organic Orchard Farm, Cuffesgrange, Kilkenny.

Chapel Steps, Patrick’s Place,

SD Galway 2Finn Harps 0

SD Galway 0 Limerick FC 1

Waterford United 0 Mervue United 4

Ten-man Waterford United slipped up in the race for automatic promotion as they were held to a scoreless draw by Athlone Town at the RSC.

Longford Town got their promotion bid back on track with a first win in four as they brushed aside SD Galway in front of just 119 fans at Eamon Deacy Park last night.

Limerick FC capped a great day off the field with a super display on it with victory over Mervue United at Fahy’s Field last night.

Dramatic CCTV footage of floodwaters sweeping through Clonakilty show water rising to record levels of 2ft in less than five minutes.

First Division leaders Longford Town staged a remarkable comeback to snatch victory from the penalty spot against nine-man Mervue in the third minute of injury-time at Fahy’s Field last night, having equalised in the final minute.

From today, public cancer patients in the south will be able to use a €3.8m PET/CT scanner at Cork University Hospital — but private patients will still be forced to travel to Dublin, Galway, or Waterford.

Limerick FC showed why they are many people’s favourites to top the First Division when they ruthlessly picked SD Galway apart at Eamonn Deacy Park last night.

Wexford Youths moved second in the First Division courtesy of a 59th minute strike from captain Danny Furlong against Athlone Town last night.

The Ireland Under-15s staged a second-half comeback last night in Killarney to clinch a draw against Belgium.

CORK CITY will be hoping their wastefulness in front of goal won’t come back to haunt them at the end of the season after substitute Tom Elmes’ injury-time equaliser saw Wexford Youths deny them all three points after late drama at Turner’s Cross last night.

LIMERICK FC recorded their third win in seven days following a nervy victory over battling Mervue United at Jackman Park last night.

WEARY Cork workers lapped up the sunshine as well as some food and drink as the city welcomed TasteFest to town.

WEXFORD YOUTHS advanced to the next round of the EA Sports Cup with a two-goal victory over a hard working Cobh Ramblers at a bitterly cold St Colman’s Park last night.

THE Department of Health has given a commitment to review a HSE decision to close 16 beds at a Co Cork community hospital.

BED closures at a West Cork community hospital are necessary to meet fire safety standards, otherwise the hospital would fail a mandatory registration process, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has claimed.

BUILD it, and they’ll come, organise it and they’ll run — and run it they did, more than 1,400 hardy souls and hardened soles turning up for a trinity of inaugural races, in the fortnight run-up to Christmas.

BISHOP John Buckley has warned that a shortage of priests will soon mean that parishes in the Diocese of Cork and Ross will have to “share” churchmen.

A CORK town kicked off a weekend of music last night ahead of separate events to mark its agricultural college’s centenary.

GRIEF-STRICKEN islanders in West Cork spoke yesterday of a father’s frantic efforts to resuscitate his toddler daughter after she fell into a low-tide inlet.

HEAVY fog was a dampener, but it did not affect the final race in the Kevin O’Leary Nissan April League series at Kinsale YC and had no effect on the celebrations by the overall class winners.

AFTER a morning of gale force winds and torrential rain, racing finally got under way at Kinsale and the third race of the Kevin O’Leary Nissan April League turned out a great one.

FOR Junior Certificate students taking higher level business studies, it was a long day with papers in the morning and afternoon.

Miriam Saunders (29) 62 nett at Kilrush; Vincent Twomey (19) 46 pts at Macroom; Kevin O’Regan (12) 46 pts at Skibbereen, Michael Brassil jnr (14) 46 pts at Ballinasloe.

DESPITE light and variable winds and early tides, 85 boats raced in the Cove SC John McCarthy Motorpoint annual race from Cobh to Blackrock village on the outskirts of Cork City.