A couple from Cork are among about 40 Irish tourists trapped under Martial Law in Peru as the country deals with the Covid-19 crisis.

History was made on Friday afternoon at Prestbury Park as the Willie Mullins-trained, Paul Townend-ridden and Marie and Joe Donnelly-owned Al Boum Photo joined the illustrious band of back-to-back winners of the Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Pat Kelly’s charge is enigmatic but, just like his media-shy trainer, utterly fascinating, writes Pat Keane.

Their love for athletics was to set Lynda O’Donovan and Timothy Harrington on track for romance.

Elber Twomey believes “her beauties” are smiling in heaven because of her success in pushing for suicide training for all police officers.

In a world where we have become conditioned to the top teams reaming off their dry, cold, clichés of obeying the ‘process’, departing Carlow football coach Steven Poacher was a brilliant contradiction, a Jackson Pollock splat of colour across the last three seasons.

Ballyhale Shamrocks manager Henry Shefflin remembered the late Eugene Aylward after yesterday’s county final win — Shamrocks panellist Aylward passed away a few weeks ago and captain Michael Fennelly dedicated the title win to him.

Here is a selection of people who have begun interesting new roles with companies based in Ireland.

Samara Ward gave it another go and won the 2019 National Brown Bread Baking Competition, having been runner-up last year.

Healthcare company MSD Ireland has promoted Marie Martin to plant manager of MSD Carlow, with immediate effect.

The late father of former Republic of Ireland player and Assistant Manager, Roy Keane, considered all of his children to be stars, his funeral mass has heard.

The funeral of Mossie Keane, the father of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane, will take place on Saturday morning.

The father of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane has died after a long illness.

Detectives investigating the murder of a woman 35 years ago have made a breakthrough in the case with the arrest of a suspect for the crime.

All roads lead to Cork for a host of inspiring gardening events this week. An acclaimed documentary that reveals how one of the world's most revolutionary landscape designers upends our conventional notions of nature, public space and beauty, will be screened in Nano Nagle Place, Cork, next Saturday, June 29, 2pm-5pm, admission free (www.eventbrite.ie)

A friend, John Nichol, an avid birdwatcher whose present patch is the Old Head of Kinsale, had some unique sightings this week.

The sister of a man missing for the past 15 years is appealing to anyone who knows where he is to come forward.

A teenager who already has her sporting skills down to a fine art is this year's overall winner of the 65th Texaco Children's Art Competition.

This collaboration between the Abbey and the Complex, an arts venue in Dublin’s Smithfield, began when Vanessa Fielding, of the Complex, initiated the Browbeating Project, in which 100 women from drug-blighted inner-city communities came to share their experiences.

Food news with Joe McNamee

The culture of our maternity services has not changed, three years into the national strategy, writes Victoria White

Minister for Health Simon Harris has said an independent review will be carried out into the deaths, which will be separate from the hospital's own inquiry.

Funeral arrangements have been announced for tragic mother of three Marie Downey and her infant son Darragh, who both died at Cork University Maternity Hospital, four days after little Darragh’s birth.

The newborn baby that was injured at Cork University Maternity Hospital this week has died.

He may have been too small to see the parade as a child but Olympic medal winner Rob Heffernan was walking tall as he led the St Patrick’s Day parade through his native city.

An internationally-known addiction counsellor has urged parents to start testing their own kids for drugs and checking any new plants appearing in their bedrooms.

The foundation aim is to give their little patients the best possible outcome but they can only achieve this will the help of others.

Actress Rosamund Pike was determined to embody fearless correspondent Marie Colvin on screen and to show ‘a woman in all her complexities,’ writes Georgia Humphreys

Sorting out Cork people for ages.

Well Christmas is well and truly over for another year.

Swapping homes can be an affordable way of holidaying in your dream location, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Last month, I spent a morning at the West Cork Women Against Violence centre (WCWAV) in Bantry, writes Louise O’Neill.

We have written here before that trainer, Ger Lyons, needs to find a Group 1 horse to carry his progressive career to the next level.

One of the most impressive statistics in the Championship season and one that is unlikely to be repeated, was the fact that Carlow did not record a single wide in their Leinster quarter-final win over Kildare, their first over the Lilywhites since 1953.

Though the last prosecution in Ireland for a suicide attempt was in 1967, the jury is still out on the topic of assisted dying.

Cork’s city coroner has paid tribute to a garda who, over the last 14 years, has helped thousands of grieving families through the often difficult coronial process.

WHAT drives a mother to walk out on her husband and children? It’s a taboo topic — but one that new drama series Come Home expertly explores, writes Georgia Humphreys.

Valerie O’Connor hears how a ‘Supergarden’ designer is helping friends cope with a tragic loss through suicide of a husband and father

A Vatican magazine has denounced the treatment of nuns as indentured servants by cardinals and bishops.

They were aware of his daily routine and told him “we're watching you all the time”, the court heard.

A cash-in-transit van driver has described how armed raiders entered his home and pointed a gun at his teenage son's head as the boy lay on the floor having a panic attack.

Staying in touch with your grandchildren at Christmas has never been easier thanks to fast-evolving mobile technology, writes Margaret Jennings.

Many tears of joy and a surprise proposal were among the reactions as the crew of a naval ship returned home just in time for Christmas.