The winning exhibitors in the main championships at the 2017 Tullamore Show & AIB National Livestock Show were as follows.

Jim Daly, the minister of state for mental health, has vowed to plug gaps in the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) as he launched a suicide prevention plan for Cork.

A beef farmer from Curraghawaddra whom I met in Macroom over the weekend asked me if this business of writing something for the paper every week was “a bit like a priest putting together his sermon?”

A maritime heritage organisation based in Cork city has published a strategic plan to meet the increasing interest in traditional boats such as currachs.

Thurles CBS 0-14 Abbey CBS 0-9: It was not an afternoon for aesthetics as Thurles CBS ground out a five-point win over John Kiely’s Abbey CBS side in greasy conditions to book their place in the last eight of the Dr Harty Cup.

Mental health campaigner Conor Cusack has called for the establishment of a 24/7 “emotional wellbeing centre” in response to the carnage caused by the suicide crisis sweeping Cork.

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There were equine stars a-plenty at last Sunday’s Clonmel Show, from the Garda mounted unit (on show alongside the armed response unit and the sniffer dogs), to the donkey derby, and Grand Prix showjumping (won by rider Micheal Pender).

A winning black Jersey at last weekend’s Cork Summer Show reflected new trends in the dairy industry.

“Oh man,” said the late great Muhammad Ali when he found George Foreman fading fast in the eighth round of their thrilling Rumble in the Jungle encounter, “This is the wrong place for you to get tired.”

A businessman told a judge that long queues in his local AIB branch was creating difficulties for him in paying off an €84,000 arrears debt on his mortgage.