A man who lost an arm in a motorboat accident has called for the hero who saved his life to be honoured posthumously.

Laura O’Mahony is from Glanmire, Co Cork, but currently lives in Ballycotton, with husband, Shane, and daughter, Polly. She is on tour with comedy group, Cccahoots. They play Whelan’s, in Dublin, tomorrow.

The Cork minor hurling side for tomorrow night’s Electric Ireland Munster MHC semi-final play-off against Waterford includes three members of the side which won provincial U17 honours last week.

Munster 15 Leinster 7 (Ladies Interpro final): A polished performance from international Niamh Briggs led Munster, who had eight from the Highfield club in the starting side, to back-to-back interprovincial titles before a bigger than expected crowd at Thomond Park on Saturday

Wexford’s Katie Fitzhenry is confident that Ireland can progress from their group at this weekend’s global women’s rugby sevens tournament in UCD.

FUNDING for the arts may be thin on the ground but there seems to be no end to the amount of theatre companies springing up in Cork, often working without anything approaching a budget or, if they’re lucky, getting one-off funding for projects.

THE abduction and rape of two little girls attending a birthday party in Athlone didn’t just send shock waves across the country last year — it graphically highlighted the challenge parents face in trying to warn young children about stranger danger.

Expecting the unexpected is par for the course for the members of ITSA Theatre Company, which is staging its annual Improvised Panto at the Half Moon Theatre in Cork from Dec 6-21. Now in its third year, this fun event is, to some extent, guided by the over-16s audience.

NOVELTY balloons, ‘pregnant belly’ cakes and Sweet Trees — once the preserve of celebrities and American mums-to-be, it seems the baby shower has successfully crossed the Atlantic.

Donoughmore 3-13 St Patrick's, Kerry 1-5

FOURTH round sessions of the TCH All-Ireland School Quiz at CBS, Roscommon resulted in wins for the host school and St Joseph’s College, Galway.

PEOPLE aged between 18 and 20 will be fined up to €300 from Monday if they are on a licensed premises after 9pm without ID.

ON a day at Killarney Races when temperatures were in the early twenties and ices and soft drinks were in huge demand, children took over from their parents in the fashion stakes.