Chocolatier Rhoda Kirwan wants lovers to consider buying Fairtrade for Valentine’s Day.

Cork showed that they are in fine shape to defend their U20 All-Ireland title after they defeated Kildare in the John Kerins Cup final.

WIT are back in the Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-finals after a four-year absence.

Ian Bailey has been arrested outside a courtroom at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin, after a High Court judge endorsed the third warrant seeking his arrest and extradition to France.

Perhaps history will repeat itself and a Jack O'Connor-led team will bounce back from a loss to Longford with a strong season but, for now, it's frustration for the new Kildare manager.

A woman has told a jury of the moment she faced a gunman in her garden, who fired two shots as she fled her home.

An entertaining game finished with a winning burst from De La Salle to earn their place in the Waterford SHC final at the expense of Mount Sion.

Munster Rugby’s loss is Cork GAA’s gain as Aidan O’Connell joins the latter organisation as their first ever high-performance manager.

John Slattery, otherwise known as John Flynn, is accused of committing three offences in the US related to wildlife trafficking, and was remanded in custody to Cloverhill Prison on foot of an extradition request from the United States.

A crime novelist got an impromptu rave review yesterday — at Cork District Court.

Cork football selector Eddie Kirwan has likened tomorrow’s fourth-round qualifier against Laois to an ‘All-Ireland final’.

Diarmuid Whelan struck a magnificent 10 points as Laois ended Kildare’s reign as Leinster and All-Ireland U20 champions at the first stage in St Conleth’s Park last night on Tuesday evening.

Interim Offaly manager Joachim Kelly met with the county’s embattled hurlers for the first time yesterday evening.

The GAA are set to return to naming a panel of 14 referees across their top two hurling championships.

Controversial works which have resulted in the near total demolition of the historic ‘folly’ near a burial plot at the site the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home have stopped.

A compelling Dr Harty Cup semi-final at the Fraher Field last Saturday ended in dramatic fashion, with Midleton CBS securing a last-gasp goal to deny a gallant De La Salle outfit.

A POINT from Ross O’Regan three minutes into stoppage time earned Midleton CBS a share of the spoils in this entertaining Dr Harty Cup tie at Bushy Park in Dungarvan.

Ronan McCarthy has made a clever move in advance of his second season in charge of Cork, writes Peter McNamara.

Clashmore rebounded from their ten-point loss to The Nire as a powerful finish caught Ballinacourty at the death in the Fraher Field sunshine on Saturday.

Corkman Finbarr Kirwan, formerly of the Irish Sports Council, is now senior director of performance with the US Olympic Committee. His job is putting US athletes on an Olympic podium, the currency he deals in is medals. Billy Walsh has already been tempted Stateside to drive standards in American boxing and Kirwan sees more Irish coaches moving to the US.

2017 was dominated by knives, rural crime, burglaries and gangland feuds, reports Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe.

Prison officer John Kirwan who has escorted prisoners to courts for many years was congratulated at Cork District Court yesterday on his forthcoming retirement.

The winners of the InBUSINESS Recognition Awards have been chosen across 20 categories at an awards ceremony at the Westin Hotel in Dublin today.

Cork was a big winner at last night’s Bord Gáis Energy Book Awards, as the critically acclaimed history tome Atlas of the Irish Revolution picked up the Best Irish Published Book of the Year.

GSOC has confirmed that it is conducting an examination into the suspected suicide of a man living under Garda protection who was due to give evidence in an upcoming trial linked to the Kinahan-Hutch feud.

Aghada 0-16 Éire Óg 0-9: Aghada returned to the Premier Intermediate hurling ranks in Cork with a fully deserved victory over Éire Óg in the IHC final played in Páirc Uí Rinn this evening. They lead the game from pillar to post and generally out hurled their opponents all over the field.

During Jim Gavin’s presentation at Sport Ireland’s recent HPX Conference, the Dublin manager noted that there were “some competitors in the audience”, past and present, which probably explained why he was so big on philosophy but so scarce on actual detail, writes Kieran Shannon.

Cork 1-19 - Dublin 1-17: Cork made history by edging 14-man Dublin by two points in their highly competitive All-Ireland U17 Hurling Championship final at Croke Park yesterday lunchtime.

In a month where many of us contemplate the laziness of summer holidays spent idling on the beach, increasing numbers of Irish people look to the exact opposite for their particular brand of leisure.

Champions Kilkenny got their Double Double bid under way with a smooth success over Waterford at Walsh Park.

Ajax’s first professional coach was Wicklow native John Kirwan, who allegedly played a key role in choosing the club’s iconic white shirt with a red vertical strip.

A 25-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Noel Kirwan in Dublin last year.

A man in his 20s is due to appear at Blanchardstown District Court at 10.30am tomorrow charged in relation to the death of Noel Kirwan.

Tipperary legend Michael ‘Babs’ Keating has called on the GAA to take referee Diarmuid Kirwan to task for his role in last month’s Nowlan Park suspension saga.

Whatever the rest of the country thought of Davy Fitzgerald’s intervention on Sunday, the vast majority of the Wexford following are fully behind their new general. That much was evident by the reaction of their fans in Nowlan Park to the first-half incident.

If you’d love to help your secondary school children with their maths homework but you’re not too confident about your own ability, help may be at hand.

Update:11.40am: Ian Bailey was arrested at the Criminal Courts of Justice building this morning after a High Court judge endorsed a European Arrest Warrant issued by the French authorities who want to try him for the voluntary homicide of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Surgeon Liam Kirwan has taken an historical look at the role of religion on Ireland’s healthcare system. He talks about where we are today to Colette Sheridan.