A pastor who had €840 seized by gardaí as part of an investigation into human trafficking claims the cash came from donations made by members of his church.

A county registrar has revealed that court sittings to address repossession orders in Donegal are already backed up for of months.

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IT’S ALL horses for courses for the woman selling this one-off West Cork home, small holding, horse facility par excellence and a whole host more: as an engineer, she’ll simply saddle up and start all over again.

Yesterday morning Waterford minor selector Kieran O’Gorman was in a select group of Déise men who have won an All-Ireland hurling title.

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A group of former work colleagues have complained to gardaí after being unwittingly enrolled in a co-op that voted their boss’ husband onto the board of a State-sponsored quango.

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A director of a state-sponsored quango said he does not know how a plethora of family members and friends became eligible to vote him onto its board at the last minute.

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Kieran O’Gorman and wife Geraldine both own businesses in Clonakilty and like others engaged in commerce see their livelihoods at risk.

Cork colours did well at last Sunday’s Clonakilty Show — with a red and white Holstein winning a top championship.

Visitors were treated to a show of top class horses at last Saturday’s Belgooly Show which required lengthy deliberations before the judges could name their supreme horse champion.

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Shannon out-half Tadg Bennett held his nerve under fierce pressure at Dooradoyle last night to land an equalising penalty from 45 metres with the last kick of the game to force a 20-20 draw with Garryowen in the Ulster Bank League.

Kieran O’Gorman of the West Cork Horse Breeders this week declared that “the school represents great value for money” and he questioned if McCarthy was being “penny wise, but pound foolish”.

AS the Davy Fitzgerald managerial era in Waterford officially drew to a close last night, delegates at a meeting of the county board decided the job of finding his successor as county senior hurling boss will commence as early as tomorrow.

TOP horse exhibitor at last year’s Dublin Horse Show, Seamus Lehane, continued his domination of shows in his native West Cork, at last week’s Carbery Show in Skibbereen.

YOU can take a winner at Clonakilty Agricultural Show anywhere.

A MART auctioneer who hit a man 40 times for accusing him of bringing the hammer down on an auction too quickly has been ordered to do 80 hours community service and pay €500 compensation.

CIAN O’CONNOR is unequivocal in his belief the €300,000 reportedly spent by Horse Sport Ireland on participation in the recent Alltech World Equestrian Games was not excessive.

A MAN who verbally abused a garda has been sentenced to climb Croagh Patrick.

THE five-day Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show, which ended yesterday, is now recognised as the best in the world, according to visiting riders and officials.

THE Netherlands won the Meydan FEI Nations Cup at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show yesterday followed by Ireland in joint second place with the United States of America.

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THIS remodelled farmhouse by Red Strand near Clonakilty in west Cork is an ideal second home material.

IT’S all about location in the property market — and farmland is no exception.

Rose Martin visits six exclusive apartments up for sale in Plaza scheme.

RECKONED by their selling agent to be the best new homes built in Leap in west Cork, the scheme Woodview Heights above the pretty village goes to the market this month.

THIS seaside cottage is going to fit some new owner hand in glove — at least it did so for its vendor, actor and puppeteer Dominic Moore.

CLARE exhibitor Tom Casey had an early showing season double at Bandon last Sunday, where he won the young horse and three-year-old horse championships.

A CALL has been made for peace talks to resolve a crisis within Fianna Fáil caused when four of the party’s local election candidates resigned after a TD’s stepdaughter was added to the ticket.

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THE cheapest just got a bit cheaper. When The Miles launched in Clonakilty, Co Cork in August 2007, its prices caught buyers pleasantly by surprise: prices came in about €40,000 or €50,000 lower than other three-beds being built locally.

THE best goods, in small packages: the motto comes to mind when it comes to No 4, Glebe Gardens, in a Clonakilty oasis setting.

AN estimated 12,000 people flocked to The Beaches in Bantry for the annual agricultural show last Sunday.

THE prestigious breeders’ championship at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show was won by a nine-year-old bay mare owned by Margaret Jeffares, Ballykelly House, Drinagh, Co Wexford.

YOU get ‘all the fruit’ thrown in, at Glebe House Gardens, an upmarket niche townhouse scheme behind the architectural timepiece Emmet Square, in West Cork’s Clonakilty.