Well, there you have it.

Sport Ireland says opportunities to participate in sport and outdoor activities are being blocked by the rising cost of insurance.

More needs to be done to make sport more inclusive for minorities, the economically disadvantaged, and people with disabilities, according to the chief executive of the organisation that represents Ireland’s sporting governing bodies.

Ireland rugby Grand Slam winner Lynne Cantwell has been appointed to lead a major new drive to break down the barriers to women in sport.

Mary O’Connor is chief executive of the Federation of Irish Sport. She is a former acting chief executive of the Camogie Association, holds 12 All-Ireland medals in camogie and ladies football, and is a driving force behind the 20x20 initiative.

Peter Miskimmin made no bones about it: he was torn.

Charlie and his appearances on the Champs Elysee in 1987 and at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico three years later, writes Brendan O’Brien. 

Paul and Gary O’Donovan’s bid to win another Olympic rowing medal is being jeopardised by a shortage in funding that has left the Skibbereen pair making do with a four-year-old boat.

Paul and Gary O’Donovan’s bid to win another Olympic rowing medal, in Tokyo in 2020, is being jeopardised by a shortage in funding that has left the Skibbereen pair making do with a four-year old boat.

Cork camogie manager Paudie Murray is adamant he didn’t threaten any players with the end of their inter-county careers if they played for UCC in the O’Connor Cup at the weekend.

Kerry County Council has been slammed for undertaking work at a holy well, a recorded monument, which some locals believe may be the site of the original crystal fountain associated with the Rose of Tralee.

Cork ICA Federation marks its 80th birthday next year and celebrations are set to start early in the New Year.

The dust had barely settled from the 2005 All-Ireland camogie final when the Cork ladies football team wandered onto the Croke Park turf for a brief kick-around.

Ciara O’Sullivan was present at GAA headquarters for the first three of Cork’s All-Ireland final wins, standing in awe as Juliet Murphy lifted the Brendan Martin Cup September after September after September.

She was a woman of many names. Also known as ‘Mary O’Connor’, ‘Mary the Shop’, and ‘Mary the Pensioner’, it was the title of ‘Mary John B’ that charmed her the most.

After a controversial landfill closed last year, residents of a Co Limerick village thought their lives would improve, but council plans to lease the site for a gasification plant has locals vowing to fight against the ‘environmental horror’, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

The composure of Cork goalkeeper Martina O’Brien is a rare gift.

The first session of the two-day Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point fixture at Dromahane took place on Saturday and Sam Curling’s Grand Gold indicated that he’s set for a particularly productive campaign by easily winning the four-mile ladies open in the hands of the Liz Lalor.

Briege Corkery, along with her Cork colleague Rena Buckley, is on the verge of claiming the highest All-Ireland medal count in GAA history, not that she thinks about such things. There might be life left in the dual star so – and there’s certainly plenty of life in this one.

Children in Hospital Ireland-Yoobyoo is a small national charity providing play for children in hospitals throughout the country and advocating for best standards in the delivery of care to all sick children and their families.

Former solicitor Thomas Byrne has told his €52m theft and fraud trial that was under threat from property developer John Kelly to fund his “outlandish” lifestyle.

Bank of Scotland Ireland viewed Thomas Byrne as “an astute and prudent operator” when lending him more than €13m, the former solicitor’s trial has heard.

St. Val’s 0-11 Inch Rovers 1-07

Cyril Farrell maintained that Galway’s spell of camogie supremacy in the mid-’90s was delivered by one individual.

The Daniel O’Connell School, discontinued for a number of years in his native Co Kerry, is to be revived this week.

The first ever televised Rose of Tralee engagement took place last night — and typical of the festival’s bizarre style, the happy couple have a broken leg and mechanical bull to thank for it.

Fretting fiancés, kissing cods, Father Ted references, and one “very cranky bear” can mean only one thing — the Rose of Tralee is back in town.

It was an historic day for the Camogie Association at Westport as Congress decided to make membership an individual responsibility rather than the current club-based system.

Fáilte Ireland representatives and tourism groups on the Ring of Kerry are to pressure the Office of Public Works to postpone the closure of Derrynane House, the museum home of Daniel O’Connell, in the year of The Gathering.

WITH a waterfall of blonde hair, beautiful smile and a figure to die for, the affluent teenager seemed to have it all — until her drunken, foul-mouthed rant in a Dublin eaterie was posted on YouTube.

A prime, former shoe shop with one of the most attractive original shops fronts in Cork City’s Oliver Plunkett Street (and almost 60 years of trading history) is looking for new uses.

THE Puffin ward in the children’s unit, Cork University Hospital, (CUH) is busy.

Carnacon (Mayo) 0-14 Inch Rovers (Cork) 0-10

Inch Rovers 0-14 Donoughmore 0-9

When she first came onto the panel in 2001 as a shy 17-year-old, the county had scarcely been in better shape.

It isn’t very often you get to see Brian Cody sporting the Cork colours but he did so with pride yesterday when he was one of five sporting heroes honoured by University College Cork.

They were caps with a difference for some of our most successful sportsmen and women — but no less significant.

Former Manchester United footballer Denis Irwin says he feels humbled after he was presented with an honourary doctorate at UCC today.

UCC is to confer honorary degrees on some of Ireland’s sporting greats, including a hurling manager who has wrecked many a Cork supporter’s dreams.

Since 2008 New Jersey Rose Rita Talty wowed then judge Dáithí Ó Sé with a rendition of The Jumbo Breakfast Roll, hearts have been all a flutter in Tralee.

FOR more years than she cares to remember Sonia O’Sullivan has been the member of an exclusive club.

Former All-Ireland winning Clare captain and current Dublin hurling boss, Anthony Daly