UCC 0-10 IT Carlow 1-6 (AET): A point from play by Cork senior county player Brian O’Driscoll in the sixth minute of extra-time proved the winning score as UCC progressed to the Sigerson Cup semi-final with victory over IT Carlow in an undistinguished game at the IT Carlow grounds last night.

A teenager who risked his life and braved strong currents in a bid to save a man from drowning has been hailed a hero.

Two fishermen who were saved off the Cork coast just moments before their vessel sank have been praised for raising the alarm quickly.

A young Kerry man accused of drunken driving in the early hours of yesterday pleaded with a judge at Cork District Court to let him out of custody to attend his mother’s funeral.

Cork City Council is awaiting further information from developers of the proposed reworking for residential use of a former bakery site in Togher.

A long slash-hook was waved at gardaí when they called to a house in Cork in the early hours of the morning in response to a call for assistance for an injured woman.

PJ Cooney and Davey Fitzgerald had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship during a weekend packed with championship scores in all grades.

Violence flared as emergency services recovered the body of a member of the Travelling community from a Co Cork river.

Aidan Murphy became the first holder of the Jim Geasley Cup when he beat Edmond Sexton in the last shot at Cobh on Sunday.

A low-ranking member of a criminal gang is anxious to leave his hospital bed in Spain and return to Ireland after surviving a bungled murder attempt.

The Pro-Life Campaign recently released the results of a Millward Brown Lansdowne conducted poll which was carried out on a quota controlled sample of 979 people aged 18+ between May 2 – 15.

David Wallace has been left out of the Munster squad for the group stages of the Heineken Cup.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny continues to be lauded in the echo chambers of the media elite for his anti-Vatican tirade.

RECENTLY it was reported that Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, admitted that jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

GARY DALY made a winning start to his Munster senior championship career by beating Gavin Twohig in the last shot at Béal na mBláth on Saturday.

HUNDREDS of people yesterday visited the home of Kinsale tragedy victim, Miriam Reidy in Ballyhahill, Co Limerick, where she lay in repose.

THE reasoning behind the recent mass boycott made little sense.

IT’S a great pity that you chose to reprint (April 28) Christopher Hitchens’s ridiculous defamation of Pope Benedict XVI in which he presents a preposterous argument for charging the pontiff with involvement in organised crime.

THE analysis by TP O’Mahony of the Pope’s pastoral letter (March 22) was the most careless I have read.

A 46-year-old father of two, who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a young Galway man, will be sentenced for the killing later this month.

THE scattergun attack by Michael O’Driscoll on all and sundry on the EU and workers’ rights entirely misses the target (Letters, August 10).

SO the ruling class believes that rejecting the project of the ruling class, the Lisbon Treaty, was damaging to Ireland’s interests (Irish Examiner, July 27).

IN his letter (July 13), Liam Aylward MEP concluded by advising us “now is the time to embrace the EU. Economically, we would be very foolish to do otherwise”.

IT is astonishing that so few in the media are being honest about how worthless the so-called guarantees on the Lisbon Treaty really are. They are worthless because they do not change anything in the treaty and amount to a mere statement of intent on the part of current leaders.

WHILE not disagreeing with Gregóir de Buitléir (‘Battering the brothers’, Letters May 29), I must honestly state there was severe and excessive physical punishment in the two religious-run schools that I attended.

DESPITE the grossly unjust generalisations being made by some in response to the Ryan report, it is crazy to speak of the Catholic church as a corporate entity being responsible for these outrages.

IN the Orwellian world of our Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin, no means yes (January 16).

IN his letter (January 1), Michael O’Driscoll, in common with nearly all anti-Lisbon people, wheels out the usual misinformation in his objection to allowing the Irish people to have a second chance to vote on the Lisbon Treaty.

IN his letter (January 1), Michael O’Driscoll questions the holding of a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty so soon after the first one was defeated.

YOUR Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill, makes a number of questionable claims in her criticisms of Declan Ganley and Libertas (December 15).

HOLDING a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty so soon after the original one is a complete insult to the Irish people and an undermining of the democratic process itself.

TONY PROCTOR (Letters, October 7) appears to believe that a Catholic ethos in schools tends to stunt high performance in mathematics, science and technology and that more generally it is inimical to a true spirit of educational inquiry.

I WOULD like to express my total outrage at the recent decision of my former college, UCC, to permit research on human embyros to take place under its authority.

THE disconnect between the Government and the citizens whose interests it has been elected to represent has been strikingly illustrated by the recent astoundingly coercive measure taken against the Shell to Sea protesters.

FILM censor John Kelleher — or classifier as he prefers to be known — disclaims all responsibility for the fact that parents brought young children to see the new Batman film and instead blames the parents themselves.

THE story of the surrender of the world’s richest fishing waters, consisting of the seas surrounding Britain and Ireland, is one of the most scandalous in the history of the EU.

I WISH to respond to Barry Walsh’s criticism (June 20) of the letter from Michael O’Driscoll (June 17) regarding the role of the Referendum Commission in relation to the yes side in the Lisbon Treaty campaign.

WHEN the French, voting in large numbers, rejected the European constitution (the Lisbon Treaty in readable form), the then president of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker, along with José Manuel Barroso, called for the ratification process to continue.

ONCE again I have to protest at your publication of outrageous allegations against the independent Referendum Commission.

DESPITE the victory for democracy last week, serious questions must now be asked of the Referendum Commission.

THREE arguments are normally proffered in support of a yes vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum.

YES campaigners have being doing their best to obscure, minimise or deny that a whole-scale reordering of our political system would come about should the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty come into effect.

WE disagree with Dr Stephen Sullivan and Dr Dolores Dooley on embryonic stem cell research (Letters, May 20).