Tributes have poured in for an Irish musician killed in a hit-and-run incident on a Florida highway.

THE singer prances about the stage, twisting his face into a devilish grimace as he belts out the blues standards. He’s part Mick Jagger, part James Brown and all Joe O’Callaghan. It’s a Monday night in the mid-1980s in Cork and Hot Guitars are playing in Sir Henrys.

THERE is a great quote from Niall Tóibín that I recently stumbled across in an old 1980 BBC radio documentary about Cork city and its inhabitants, called As Others See Us.

MUSIC is Donal Lunny’s world — his day, his night.

David Shannon won the Munster Junior C final with an incredible 13 shot performance against Shane Lotty at Jagoes Mills on Monday.

Martin Coppinger is officially the 2013 All-Ireland senior champion as Eddie Carr has withdrawn from next weekend’s rescheduled final because his injury has not cleared up.

Martin Coppinger and Eddie Carr will face each other in the rescheduled All-Ireland senior final at Béal na mBláth on Saturday, August 24.

Kerry GAA chiefs are set to investigate ugly scenes which developed at half-time in Saturday’s county senior hurling championship quarter-final between Ballyduff and Causeway at Austin Stack Park, Tralee.

Ballyduff 2-13 Causeway 1-16 (AET)

Cill na Martra 1-11 Kildorrery 1-8

Gardaí moved quickly yesterday to arrest two suspects in connection with the shooting of an innocent schoolboy in south Dublin.

Cill na Martra 1-11 Fermoy 0-9

Cill na Martra 1-13Glanmire 0-10

SHOPPERS on a busy city centre street in Limerick had a narrow escape yesterday when a high-speed chase ended in dramatic circumstances.

NEW Ipswich Town boss Paul Jewell has backed his predecessor Roy Keane to go on to be a success in management despite last week’s sacking by the Championship club.

THE cold, calm weather has given pike anglers a chance to tackle a number of lakes, and there were some great fish taken.

AN Taoiseach Brian Cowen was among the TDs who met with artists, arts workers and their supporters yesterday in anational day of action, staged by the National Campaign for the Arts.

THE FBD Young Farmer of the Year who will be named next week is likely to be a well-qualified part-timer, strongly involved in IFA and Macra and the local community.

BUILT in older, loosely Georgian style, Brook Lodge near Oughterard in Co Galway is a modern build in the Owenriff Park enclave of one-offs.

PROBABLY the best sited of a dozen or so houses, the semi-detached number 10, Michael Killeen Park, in Roundstone, Co Galway, is up for sale.

Folk musicians, artists, dancers and singers from Ireland, UK, Europe and beyond will descend on Cork this weekend for the Beamish Cork Folk Festival.

THIS year’s Beamish Folk Festival has been “Shanghai-ed”.

Cork IT 2-11 Avondhu 0-9

AN Irish ballad group taking the US by storm will launch its music collection here this week.

LIKE the cream on a good pint, Martin O’Connor’s bartending skills came out on top yesterday.

GARDAÍ arrested an average of 80 motorists a day on suspicion of drink driving during the four-day bank holiday weekend clampdown.

Tommy Barker is entranced by the beauty which surrounds this Spiddal stunner.

Energy efficiency is now an issue of competitiveness and a business imperative for all companies in Ireland, according to David Taylor, chief executive of Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI).

Cork 0-16 Waterford 1-9

EAMON CORCORAN has withdrawn from the Irish team to play Scotland in the shinty international at Croke Park on Sunday.

Birmingham City manager Steve Bruce admitted that the performance of Senegal skipper Aliou Cisse against Patrick Vieira in the World Cup convinced him to sign the midfielder from Paris St Germain.