From Greta Thunberg’s passionate appearance in New York to the news that the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that poor air quality in Ireland led to more than 1,100 deaths in 2016 — there are plenty of reasons to consider electric cars.

When it comes to concussion in sport, players lie because they do not want to come off, and team managers lie because they don’t want to take the player off — but the overriding message is “when in doubt, take them out”, an expert in sports medicine has warned.

The HSE has paid over €540m to GP practices and out of hour services in fees and allowances last year, for treating medical card patients and providing services for other State health schemes.

Cork football always seems to have enjoyed flirting with crisis, controversy and chagrin, writes John Coleman.

Last Saturday evening when Gary Brennan stood on the steps of the Hogan Stand, it served as a reminder of another fact of the county he represents so well.

When to drink or not to drink, that is the question anyone involved with a team must ask.

Templenoe (Kerry) 2-17 Coolmeen (Clare) 0-3: Josh Holland, with the second last kick of this Munster final contest, billowed the Coolmeen net with a rasping left-footed drive.

The GAA won’t be taking extra security measures for Saturday’s International Rules test in the wake of the suicide bomb blasts outside the Stade de France on Friday.

FOR many families this summer, the excitement of a holiday trip can be punctured by the words ‘I’m sick’ coming from the back seat of the car.

Tipperary 1-15 Clare 1-11

A man with a serious drinking problem who took a car from a garage forecourt without permission for “a test drive” was caught less than 90 minutes later having crashed it multiple times.

Clare and Limerick? The only differences between us are those little idiosyncrasies, those unique emblems, which distinguish us all as our own separate little tribe in the wider hurling family.

For much of the time, he served as a Clare delegate to the Munster Council before being elected chairman, Noel Walsh was a strong advocate of the inter-provincial competitions and in the vanguard of the movement to open up Croke Park to rugby and soccer.

All-Ireland senior women’s champion Carmel Ryan secured a hard-fought victory over Sharon Russell in the first round of the Munster championship at Ballinacurra.

Doctors have accused the Government of stripping sick, elderly and disabled patients of medical cards to fund its ambitious plan to extend free GP care to children under the age of six.

The world’s number one pitch & putt player yesterday confessed to driving three men to and from the scene of a robbery at a brothel in Cork.

Cousins Aidan and Kieran Murphy beat Ulster pair Thomas Mackle and Sean Donnelly in the last shot of the Dunmanway Hospital and Daycare joint-benefit event at Derrinasafa on Sunday.

Martin Daly is regarded as Clare’s greatest ever forward; some would say their greatest ever footballer. But among a list of achievements the Lissycasey man clocked up for the Banner County, one stands out above the others

The mother of a missing Offaly woman has described the level of support for a proposal to name a bridge after her daughter as “very heartening”.

Aidan Murphy launched the Mother Hegarty Cup at Lyre with a convincing two bowls of odds win over Gary Daly on Sunday.

Gavin Twohig returned to competitive bowling with an impressive win over David Hubbard in the Ballinacurra tournament on Saturday.

After 20 years only bits and pieces are fresh in his mind.

After making himself noticed on Carrigaline teams which reached county minor football finals in 1995 and 1996, Nicholas Murphy found himself coming to the attention of Cork senior manager Larry Tompkins.

Rated 1/100 favourites with some bookmakers to be lifting the Munster title next Sunday evening, it is hard for anybody associated with the Cork team to adopt the usual GAA tradition of talking up the opposition.

Financially stretched medical card holders who call GPs out of hours should be forced to pay a €5 penalty instead of receiving the support for free, a doctor has claimed.

He opened with a good bowl, which Murphy missed by 30m. Murphy played his second bowl to the right and O’Donovan increased his lead to 60m.

Brian Wilmot made a successful start to his senior championship career when he beat Patrick O’Donoghue in their Pool C tie at Gortroe.

Aidan Murphy had the first win of the 2012 Munster senior championship when he beat Martin Coppinger in the last shot at Baile Mhuirne in Pool A on Saturday.

Donal Riordan gave a five-star performance on the new Castletownkeneigh road where he beat Gavin Twohig by close to a bowl of odds.

Denis O’Driscoll had an astonishing win over John O’Rourke in the Bill Barrett Cup at Caheragh.

MICK HURLEY maintained his good form with a comfortable win over Martin Daly at Pouladuff.

THE shame when a county doesn’t go on to win the All-Ireland is it can forget what got it within touching distance of winning the All-Ireland in the first place.

AIDAN MURPHY won a place in the Munster senior quarter-final when he beat Edmund Sexton by almost a bowl at Baile Bhuirne on Monday evening.

ANTHONY GOULD finished with two exceptional bowls to take the first big championship of 2011 when he beat David Hubbard in the last shot of their Munster Premier Intermediate tie at Ballinacurra, Upton on Sunday.

MICK O’DWYER has backed GAA presidential candidate Con Hogan’s “super-coach” proposal as a means of addressing under-the-table payments to managers.

DAVID MURPHY just edged past All-Ireland champion Martin Coppinger in the O’Connell-Dullea Cup at Ballygurteen on Sunday.

SEAMUS SEXTON and Paddy O’Donoghue will meet in the Murphy’s Stout Munster Intermediate final.

THE YEAR 1997 was the year I played my final inter-county game for Cork. It all ended rather ingloriously, on the bench in Ennis the day Martin Daly scuffed a dramatic last minute goal for Clare past Kevin O’Dwyer in a Munster Championship semi-final.

Almost two fifths of Irish patients suffering from chronic pain are not taking their medication as prescribed, new research revealed today.

WHEN Foreign Minister Micheál Martin suggests that securing a right to a permanent commissioner justifies voting for the Lisbon Treaty, he neglects to mention one crucially important fact.