A planned upgrade to the country's only cable car service looks set to go ahead after objectors to the proposal withdrew their concerns at an oral hearing.

Board officials were criticised in some quarters for rejecting an offer from TG4 - via the GAA - to televise Sunday’s East Kerry-Dr Crokes SFC final.

Cork County Council has lodged a number of applications with an Bord Pleanála and the Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government for a €10m project which it hopes will turn the country's most south-westerly island into a major tourist attraction.

Kya deLongchamps meets the man who is opening a new chapter on his native Fermoy

It's somewhat ironic the Naval Service's commander spends most of his days on Haulbowline Island, just a stone's throw from Spike Island where three of his granduncles were interned in 1921 – and a fact he only found out two years ago.

Limerick led for most of the game and were thoroughly deserving of their winning margin over a Clare side that had Shane Meehan as their star performer.

A teenage boy who was hospitalised for four months at a cost of up to €120,000 to the State because of delays in the allocation of a wheelchair has defied the odds and is to start his Junior Certificate exams from home tomorrow. (Wed)

THIS West Cork island near the mouth of Glandore Harbour is one of five Rabbit Islands in the country, with the others in Bantry Bay, Cork Harbour, Galway Bay and Lough Corrib

A meeting will be held in UCC tomorrow to plan for special centenary commemorations of the War of Independence and Civil War.

Munster was one of the most strategically significant regions during the War of Independence, writes John O’Callaghan

A Corkman’s drug addiction spiralled out of control and yesterday he pleaded guilty to having two deals of heroin in his possession.

A closed Irish border is not acceptable for either trade or people, Chartered Accountants Ireland has said in its strongest statement yet on the implications of Brexit.

Donncha O’Brien made an explosive start to his Marshall Clarke Cup quarter-final clash with Denis Wilmot at Derrinasafa, which set him on the way to a comprehensive win.

’Where We Last Spoke’ is a short film directed by Liam Lynch for a video production project at Institute of Technology Tallaght.

Micheál Martin has called for “space” and “cool heads” as negotiating teams from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael prepare to begin substantive talks on the formation of a new government.

Monuments dotted around the country dedicated to the War of Independence are not protected as historic sites.

Cork auctioneer Liam Lynch failed yesterday in a legal challenge against a rates bill for over €100,000, in respect of vacant buildings among a portfolio of properties he owned.

Civil war has broken out over ownership of the 1916 commemorations in Co Cork, with some Fine Gael councillors backing Fianna Fáil against Sinn Féin.

The two most common diseases of the teeth and gums are caries (decay) and periodontal disease (gum disease).

IT’S odd because yesterday morning in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Douglas, we spoke theoretically to the players about the type of game this Munster final might be.

Gerry Adams got himself in hot water with journalists in the past week. 

Kerry SFC: A couple of weeks after their 16-point mauling at the hands of Dr Crokes last year, manager Stephen Stack called a meeting of his Austin Stacks players.

Campaigning in the referendum on the abolition of the Seanad has kicked off in earnest, with parties on both sides accusing the other of misrepresenting the facts in support of their stance.

ANTI-TREATY candidates received less than 22% of the first preference votes in the general election of June 1922.

THE tension in Ireland over seizing Unionist hostages in the North was raised considerably on Feb 11, 1922, when the IRA in Clones, Co Monaghan, clashed with a group of 19 Ulster Special Constables (USC), travelling from Belfast to Enniskillen by rail.

Tomorrow night is one of the biggest nights of the year in Tralee, the Betdaq Night of Champions at the Kingdom greyhound stadium, and this year it will be broadcast live around the world on Sky Sports (8pm to 10.30pm).

GAA head of games development Pat Daly has expressed his concern at teams openly admitting they cynically foul to gain an advantage.

IN 1997 I sent a letter to your newspaper regarding many commentators who questioned the right of Belfast-born Mary McAleese to run for the Presidency of Ireland.

Former senator Eoghan Harris was spat at by an angry protestor yesterday after he denounced

THE state should avoid “waving the green flag” and “glamourising the gun” when commemorating the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, former senator Eoghan Harris has said.

FIONNUALA Lynch won’t start school until next year but her mother Tracey Holsgrove is fighting to ensure she gets all the supports she needs when does.

SOME 300 submissions were received by the Department of Finance over its budgetary plans to axe Section 23-type property reliefs, it was confirmed yesterday.

ELEVEN Fermanagh footballers have slammed their county board for the handling of the impasse between the senior squad and manager John O’Neill.

WHAT would one of the most fabled leaders of the 1920s Republican forces think of this country being baled out by the British?

I LISTENED with some amazement to Neil Prendeville’s explanation of his alleged behaviour (Irish Examiner, November 3) on an Aer Lingus flight from London to Cork on 96FM yesterday morning.

ARMAGH champions Crossmaglen Rangers dumped the reigning Ulster and All-Ireland champions, St. Gall’s, out of the running for successive titles with a brilliant 1-12 to 0-9 point win at Oliver Plunkett Park.

THE engagement between IRA riflemen and Free State soldiers in which Michael Collins was killed was largely fortuitous and involved terrific fire, a previously unseen report sent to IRA headquarters by the ambush squad reveals.