He won’t get the kind of send-off we’re used to or that he deserves, writes Kieran Shannon.

"It has been the main part of my life since seven and I played with Cork since I was 14."

Let's fasten our seatbelts as a trip back in time is on the itinerary when we tune into episode three of the Home of the Year tonight.

A footballer from the North has been named locally as one of the weekend’s seven road-crash victims.

Only a generation ago, Fine Gael were able to take three of the four seats in the Cork East constituency. Now they're barely able to hold onto one.

The last three seats in Cork East were decided on Count 8 when Sean Sherlock (Lab) reached the quota and FG junior minister David Stanton and FF's new kid on the block, James O'Connor, were elected without reaching the magic figure.

Pat Buckley, from Midleton, topped the poll with an impressive 12,587 first preferences, which got him elected on the first count as the quota was 10,909.

A shop that is stocked and staffed entirely by cancer survivors is to open in Dublin today.

A year on from Kevin McCarthy’s Croke Park hat-trick which sealed AIB All-Ireland intermediate club success for Kilcummin, his pal and namesake Ian repeated the trick for Na Gaeil in the junior decider.

Either the people of Wexford town love Micheál Martin or they love the cameras - either way the Fianna Fáil leader got a glowing reception in the Labour stronghold this afternoon.

There are somewhere over 2,200 GAA clubs in Ireland so the chances of one from any given corner of the country making it to one of the All-Ireland finals being decided in Croke Park in the same weekend are, well, long.

Conor Kenny can recall the new manager’s first encounter with Borris-Ileigh.

Maher scored a stunning late point with a broken hurley as Borris-Ileigh finished stronger.

Having been set to take time away from football after his spell as Kildare manager, Cian O’Neill has revealed how Ronan McCarthy coaxed him into the Cork set-up as a coach to the senior footballers.

Flahive, who started each of Cork’s six championship games this year at corner-back, recently underwent surgery to address a torn labrum in his shoulder.

Shelter, security, safety, warmth — these are things that every child must have in your rich and prosperous country

Here is a selection of people who have begun interesting new roles with companies in Ireland.

A homeless mother has hit out at the Taoiseach for his comment that Santa will find homeless children this Christmas.

Not even Jim Gavin could keep his guard up for seven whole years and the ex-Dublin boss did drop enough nuggets of intrigue over the years to remember him by.

The 23-year-old, who was found guilty on Monday of assaulting a man two years ago, was elected as a councillor earlier this year.

TD Michael Healy-Rae’s two sons had denied they assaulted Kieran James after a row broke out in the queue outside a chip van in the centre of Kenmare town.

“He was the difference between the teams today,” declared an ecstatic St Mary’s coach, Dan Shanahan. “His puckouts were good and he hasn’t conceded a goal in four games.”

The game will mark the first for a Tipperary club in a senior Munster hurling final in seven years, facing a Ballygunner side in their third in a row, their fourth in five seasons.

Four years they’ve waited, but results in Páirc Uí Rinn and west Clare mean Nemo Rangers will have the opportunity next month to exact revenge for that never-to-be-forgotten Munster final defeat of 2015.

The brother of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executive Kevin Lunney has told of his horror and anger at hearing details of the assault as revealed in a BBC interview on Tuesday night.

Have you seen Kevin McGrath?

It’s managed chaos from the moment the alarm goes off as myself.

The threat follows last month's abduction and torture of Quinn director Kevin Lunney, who is still recovering from his injuries.