Red Rock, TV3's new soap launches this week. Ed Power went behind the scenes to meet some of the cast and crew.

It might be assumed that any company set to employ in the region of 1,000 people here would be a major multinational corporation. Not so Voxpro. Its roots are very firmly in Ireland but with a global focus.

SINCE landing the world’s largest search engine provider Google as a customer three years ago, business has taken off for Cork firm Voxpro.

A brilliant second-half fightback ensured victory for Minane Bridge in a closely contested DH4 final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

IT hosted the first race meeting of the new millennium in Europe and later helped punters get used to the euro. Now one of Ireland’s oldest racecourses is to embark on a 12-month celebration to mark its centenary in 2012, but whether the euro is still in circulation is not as certain.

Kilrossanty 2-5, Ardmore 0-7