IF Queen Elizabeth deigns to come to Cork during her State visit to Ireland, they may have to do a bit of heavy lifting at UCC. A statue of her predecessor, Queen Victoria, once held pride of place on the roof of the college’s Aula Maxima when it was Queen’s University Cork.

JOHNNY MURTAGH notched his 93rd win of the domestic season when Wit And Wisdom justified favouritism in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Maiden at Dundalk last night.

DISAPPOINTMENT has been voiced in Killarney following the exclusion, yet again, of an historic, old house from Fáilte Ireland funding.

A ROW has flared over plans by a top golf club to cut down old lime trees which date to the mid-1800s.