THE scoreline did scant justice to Bride Rovers’efforts in this Cork SHC tie in Riverstown on Saturday night as Erin’s Own had to battle like trojans before advancing to round four.

BARRY JOHNSON was the scoring hero for Bride Rovers in this Evening Echo SHC third round tie at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night.

BARRY JOHNSON was the scoring hero for Bride Rovers in this Evening Echo SHC third round tie at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night.

FOR 81-year-old John Collins it was a day of nostalgia mixed with pride.

ONE of Ireland’s most notorious paedophiles, Oliver O’Grady, jailed in the US in the 1990s, has claimed he is voluntarily registered with gardaí as a sex offender.

KILFEACLE have gone clear at the top of the First Division of the Heineken Munster Junior League and their clash with second place Bruff in two weeks time, looks like having a big bearing on the destination of this season’s title.

I READ in the business section (Irish Examiner, October 1) that the American Chamber of Commerce chief executive, Joanne Richardson, stated that, despite our current world class reputation as a manufacturing location, we are vulnerable to competition from low-cost countries in the manufacturing area.

A GRAND total of 85 boats turned out for the opening race of the C.H. Marine Autumn League at the Royal Cork YC in Crosshaven where the skippers and crews just could not have had it any better.

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.