A judge who heard days of evidence about bad blood between neighbours over a house extension said the two parties were very foolish but only one was before the court.

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Watergrasshill 1-15 Blarney 0-14: Watergrasshill deservedly took the spoils from an exciting Cork PIHC first round tie at Riverstown yesterday, but only after a late goal from William Connolly put this game beyond the reach of battling Blarney.

Scoil Phobail Sliabh Luachra 2-12 Coláíste Chríost Rí 0-8: The Munster and All-Ireland champions comfortably defeated on the opening afternoon, and now the scalp taken of Cork’s most successful football nursery.

Michael Collins never lived in the Georgian house in the West Cork town of Clonakilty, which is being painstakingly restored as a museum dedicated to the life of Ireland’s best known freedom fighter.

A guide to the championship won last year by Ballyhea.

Kilmeen Drama Group has been blazing a trail in Irish amateur theatre since the 1940s, writes Colette Sheridan

This weekend, people are taking to the streets of Limerick, spreading happiness with every good deed they do as part of a Festival of Kindness.

House values vary widely - and wildly - along Cork’s Model Farm Road, running just west of the city suburbs from Dennehy’s Cross right out towards Ballincollig.

St Catherine’s 1-17 Kildorrery 1-16

It’s long been a refuge for hippies, celebrities, and retiring Germans, but West Cork has now emerged as a tax haven for the world’s highest-paid musician.

A Cork student who created a device that allows visually impaired people to ‘see’ obstacles in their path is to showcase his work in Europe.

DISGRACEFUL scenes broke out in Riverstown yesterday as this fourth round Premier IHC clash between Youghal and Tracton came to an end.

A SUPERMARKET group owner has taken over as president of Waterford Chamber of Commerce and vowed to forge closer links with other bodies in the south-east.

A HIGH Court decision will be given next week on whether an interlocutory injunction will be granted to a 47-year-old group training manager with a newspaper group who is seeking orders restraining his dismissal and directing he be paid pending a full hearing of the case.

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.

ONE man inspired a congregation of several hundred Mass-goers to stand and applaud the priests of their parish on Sunday.

THE residents of a tiny island off the south-west coast will abandon their boats next week and return to using Ireland’s only cable car.

Ballymartle 1-10 Ballinhassig 1-5

THE last time former rugby star Gerry “Ginger” McLoughlin faced the haka, there were 15 All Black warriors taunting him at Thomond Park on October 31, 1978.

Dripsey 1-14 Glen Rovers 1-12

DOUGLAS turned on the style at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, a magical second-half display leaving fancied Ballymartle for dead, setting up a mouth-watering Cork Co Premier IHC semi-final date with Blarney.

THE slash and burn approach has been taken to a small development of one-offs in Ballyhooly, Co Cork.

ABOUT 300 people, including President Mary McAleese, yesterday accorded a standing ovation to the man responsible for the success of the Cork International Choral Festival.

MEDIA group Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) last night conferred diplomas on 25 graduates of its Higher Diploma in Journalism Practice course in the company headquarters at South Mall, Cork.

THE splendour falls on span new walls — across the fields, the long light shakes across the lakes.

A FEW old-timers in Ardfert still remember the little German lad named Bernd who spent three years in the Kerry village in the grim years following WWII.

A SENIOR GAA club says that acts of vandalism have left them with a bill of €10,000.

PROJECTS worth hundreds of millions of euro are in the pipeline for County Cork, as the Celtic Tiger shows no signs of slowing down.

WHEELCHAIR users in Cork feel like prisoners in their own homes because they are finding it increasingly difficult to get accessible taxi’s to pick them up, it was claimed yesterday.