Cork IT 1-11 Newcestown 0-12: A Newcestown comeback fell short as Peter Kelleher and Anthony Casey led Cork IT to an opening county SFC victory at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

John Fogarty considers the promotion prospects of the sides hoping to join the top tier.

Demolition work on the former Capitol cinema site in the heart of Cork City has begun, heralding the start of a €50m project which is set to rejuvenate the city centre.

The landmark One Albert Quay office block, nearing completion in Cork’s docklands, is poised to become one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in Europe.

Duhallow 1-11 Newcestown 0-9: Predictably, the only goal scored in yesterday’s fourth-round Cork SFC clash in Carrigadrohid proved decisive in determining Carbery Rangers’ opponents in the quarter-final would be Duhallow. And, it’s timing – 11 minutes from time after scores had been level seven times – was all the more critical for the reason Newcestown registered three wides around the same time.

The victim of an early- morning road accident yesterday in east Cork attended a wedding in the area on Saturday and had only recently returned home to Ireland after years working in New Zealand.

Several strategic investment projects worth almost €500m will transform Cork City and generate thousands of jobs over the next few years, the city’s business leaders were told last night.

The semi-final line-up in the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup has been confirmed following the completion of the remaining weather-affected Round Three ties.

Not many people convert their back garden into a continental speakeasy to celebrate their child’s christening, but then not many have lived a life like Breifne O’Brien.

Cork SFC fourth-round replay: Clyda Rovers 1-11 Newcestown 1-9

Cork SFC

The court heard that Breifne O’Brien’s deceptions first began to come to light when an allegation was made during civil proceedings in 2008 and Mr Justice Peter Kelly referred the matter to the Garda fraud squad.

Businessman Breifne O’Brien used money stolen from investors to pay for an extension to his house, a new car for his wife, and the stamp duty on new properties, in a multi-million euro Ponzi scheme, a court has heard.

Businessman Breifne O’Brien has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of multi-million euro theft and deception totalling over €10m between 2003 and 2008.

Glenealy, bidding for a fourth Wicklow SHC title in-a-row, were taken to extra-time by Carnew before carving out a narrow 2-16 to 1-15 victory in their semi-final replay at Aughrim yesterday.

Defending champions St Patrick’s have to go the qualifier route in Wicklow’s senior football championship after shipping a heavy defeat at Aughrim yesterday.

One garda was used as a “human shield” from a hatchet-wielding 16-year-old while gardaí were powerless to prevent another man slashing his victim 11 times across the face and back with a Stanley knife in broad daylight.

Businessman Breifne O'Brien has failed to stop his trial on theft and deception charges.

Newcestown 0-13 St Vincent’s 1-8 (aet)

Two brothers have received three-year sentences for a vicious assault on a man beaten into submission over an alleged money debt.

Socialite and businessman Breifne O’Brien is to stand trial accused of deception and theft of about €11m in an alleged investment fraud.

Major champions Darren Clarke, Pádraig Harrington and Rory McIlroy were fine-tuning their British Open preparations yesterday and so missed out on a special day at Mullingar Golf Club.

While not quite a scene from Father Ted, ‘Nunday’ had all the hallmarks.

A CONVICTED killer who had bitten off part of a man’s ear during an earlier dispute and posted it through the victim’s letterbox in an envelope some days later has been jailed for four years.

AN east Clare community is set to benefit from a Sisters of Mercy response to the fall-out from the Ryan report.

THEIR season began on a low note in Rosscarbery when they suffered a first-round reversal, but Clonakilty enjoyed happier times on their return to the same venue yesterday.

A HIGH Court judge has approved a €4.5 million settlement for a man who is severely brain damaged and “a child in a man’s body” after suffering viral encephalitis as a result of a viral infection, herpes simplex.

Derry 1-18 Fermanagh 1-10

O’Donovan Rossa 1-14 Clonakilty 2-9 (AET)

A MAN has been found guilty of the manslaughter of another man who died nine days after being struck with a hurley during a late-night incident in a city park.

A POSTMORTEM examination on a man who died in hospital after being hit with a hurley revealed he had drugs in his system at the time, a court heard yesterday.

A MAN accused of inflicting a fatal head injury with a hurley told gardaí he did so because he was afraid the victim was going to plunge a knife down his throat, a court heard yesterday.

IT’S THE marching season in the north, but this was more of a stumble over the line for Paddy O’Rourke’s Armagh against a very green Fermanagh outfit before 7,000 fans at Brewster Park.

Fermanagh 0-7 Armagh 0-11, Enniskillen

MARY DOWLING may have to invest in a new phone after yesterday’s dramatic success on the final day of the Lancome Irish Women’s Close Championship at Portstewart Golf Club.

IT was a match largely devoid of quality but that won’t perturb Clonakilty as they opened the defence of their Evening Echo Cork SFC on a successful note in yesterday afternoon’s first round clash in Rossmore.

TWO men have been charged with the assault of a 25-year-old man who remains critical in hospital.

Tyrone 1-20 Fermanagh 1-8

They may have been workmanlike against Aghada in the last round, but Clonakilty displayed their championship credentials with a master-class in front of goal in yesterday’s entertaining Evening Echo Cork Co SFC quarterfinal at Kilmurry.

MEDICAL card holders, including vulnerable elderly people, in North Cork are not being given replacement glasses to which they are entitled.

Nemo Rangers 1-10 Clonakilty 0-8