Kerry football legend turned dance star Aidan O’Mahony waltzed into a Cork hospital with garda colleagues yesterday with a special presentation to boost the spirits of children undergoing cancer treatment.

Comedian Alan Shortt and Irish race walker Alex Wright will soon be stepping out to support a cancer charity walk in Cork.

Carol O’Callaghan visits the new family room at the Mercy University Hospital’s Children’s Leukaemia Unit.

A teenager’s inspired make-over of a hospital storeroom will help make treatment for young cancer patients a little easier to bear.

The 2014 Irish Open proved a major hit in Cork with more than 100,000 spectators visiting Fota Island Resort, and it also left a lasting legacy in the region with the tournament raising €50,000 for its Official Charity, Mercy Hospital Foundation and its Kids + Teens Appeal.

Soccer legend John Hartson, who beat cancer, has urged men to check their tackle regularly in a bid to catch signs of testicular cancer early.

The Mercy Hospital Foundation has been named the official charity of this year’s Irish Open golf championship at Fota Island in Cork.

Designed to ease patient anxiety and deliver significant improvements in the quality of the images produced, the new €2.5m CT suite at the Mercy University Hospital is a perfect blend of the comfortable and the clinical.

It’s where she examined her first cases of piles, boils, warts, and haemorrhoids. And yesterday Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies presenter, Dr Pixie McKenna, was back in the Irish hospital where she trained to back its ambitious €3m fundraising drive.

Ireland might be in the grip of a major recession, but that has not stopped big-hearted Cork people from donating almost €2m to a vital health service charity since the crisis began.

The Cork jerseys will bear the slogan ‘Testicular Cancer Appeal’ in Saturday's Allianz Football League opener against Dublin at Croke Park.

Gardaí, nurses, firemen and paramedics have responded to a busy city hospital’s call for help.

A CANCER survivor who has seen his father and son diagnosed with the disease is spearheading a fundraising event to help a leading cancer treatment centre.

CORK people have been urged to help ensure vital frontline services for children, cancer sufferers and the elderly continue by donating a massive €4.5 million to a leading charity over the next three years.

BROADCASTER and rugby pundit George Hook will line out with the voice of the GAA, Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, for a special cancer fundraiser in Cork next month.

AS A two-time world martial arts champion, he has faced some tough competition in the ring.

KATHY O’Beirne’s story of sexual abuse and rape at home and in a number of religious institutions led to angry scenes on early morning TV yesterday when heated outbursts forced the makers of TV3’s Ireland AM to take an unscheduled break.

A UNIQUE book, produced by the Ray D’Arcy Show, which charted a day in the life of Ireland through the lens of amateur photographers, has raised €306,000 for Childline.

MURDERED Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who endured a terrifying death in west Cork six years ago, had expressed a desire to have a baby.