Heritage campaigners have called for an engineering rethink following confirmation that repairs to Cork’s iconic Shakey bridge will dampen its signature shake.

Clare O’Sullivan and Emma Fitzpatrick will contest the Gretta Cormican Cup final in a bid to secure a semi-final place in next month’s Queen of the Roads.

John Coffey is hurling’s oldest living holder of an All-Ireland medal, having turned 99 in January. He played corner forward for Tipperary in the 1945 final win over Kilkenny, scoring the opening goal, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Some criminal trials manage to attract huge public interest, but few have ever matched the opening day of the trial of the so-called Jobstown Seven.

Donncha O’Brien made an explosive start to his Marshall Clarke Cup quarter-final clash with Denis Wilmot at Derrinasafa, which set him on the way to a comprehensive win.

Memory is a strange thing. It is unreliable, malleable, hauntingly transient, and yet we allow it to shape our present lives.

Edmond Sexton did record bowling at Lyre in his three bowls of odds win over Thomas Mackle in the Mother Hegarty Cup on Sunday.

Éamon Bowen eliminated hot favourite Gary Daly from the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig and ended his interest in the Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads.

It’s just as well the forces of law and order were asleep when FF and FG were collecting, writes Michael Clifford

Tributes have been paid to Irish cycling legend Mick Murphy who will be buried in Caherciveen, Co Kerry this morning.

Mick Murphy, the ‘Iron Man’ of Kerry and a legendary cyclist and sporting all-rounder, has died.

Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy has admitted he is worried about the prospect of being charged for the false imprisonment of the Tánaiste last year and said it was possible people could go to jail.

Gardaí have prevented an anti-water charges party from fundraising in a key flashpoint area because the money could be used to encourage the “commission of an unlawful act”.

Gardaí have yet to decide on how to proceed with charges against up to 25 water charge protesters, including TD Paul Murphy, three weeks after they got directions from the DPP to prosecute.

The trials against Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy and two party councillors, with Tánaiste Joan Burton as star witness, will not take place before the next election, the Irish Examiner has established.

It should have been a day of celebration to note the achievements of adult students as Tánaiste Joan Burton attended a higher education graduation ceremony in Dublin last November.

Gardaí have been given the green light to bring serious charges against three politicians, including Paul Murphy TD, in connection with the water charges protest involving Tánaiste Joan Burton last November.

Irish Water and billionaire Denis O’Brien are locked in an escalating legal row over who should pay for a series of unexpected water metering costs linked to protesters’ interference with the equipment, which could end up costing the taxpayer €5m.

Gardaí have recommended that charges of false imprisonment and violent disorder be brought against Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy, two party colleagues, and five other people.

The Garda investigation file on the estimated 37 people arrested in relation to the anti-water charge protest involving Tánaiste Joan Burton last November is due to be sent to the State prosecutor next week.

Tánaiste Joan Burton will be the “star witness” if the Director of Public Prosecutions brings charges against people over events at last November’s anti-water charge protest in Tallaght, Dublin.

Serious, and dark, claims are being made over the mounting Jobstown arrests — of political policing, of trumped-up charges and of Garda heavy-handedness.

Gardaí are expected to make up to 40 further arrests following the detention of three politicians and one activist over the suspected false imprisonment of Tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser at a water charges protest three months ago.

The most disconcerting fact to emerge from yesterday’s dawn raid on the house of a TD is that Paul Murphy wears pyjamas.

The Anti Austerity Alliance say the arrest of TD Paul Murphy is "another cheap attempt to denigrate the movement against the water charges".

Socialist TD Joe Higgins says the arrest of one of his party colleagues is "political policing".

Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy is among four men who have been arrested in connection with the water protest last November which saw the Tánaiste Joan Burton trapped in her car for more than two hours.

Two Cork institutions were recognised over the weekend for their outstanding contribution to business in the city and received due acclaim at the Cork Business Association annual awards.

Michael Bohane bounced back from his Flor Crowley Cup defeat with an impressive win over Gavin Twohig in the Jim O’Driscoll Cup at Ballincurrig.

Fifty years ago Tipperary and Kilkenny clashed in the All-Ireland final with the Cats warmly fancied to retain their title.

Hydrotherapy and pool sessions are being used by vets to treat injuries and obesity, says Nuala Woulfe.

Cork folk group Stoker’s Lodge, led by Jimmy Crowley, are reuniting after 30 years, says Jo Kerrigan

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RIVAL developers competing to build Cork’s first indoor events and conference centre have launched an intensive lobbying campaign ahead of a review to determine who should get a €16m state support package.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has accused Enda Kenny of in the “worst form of populism” by trying to abolish the Seanad without public debate.

It has been a derelict eyesore at the western gateway to Cork City for almost a decade.

They have another jersey for the wall now. Right up there alongside the Irish one, a Sam Warburton jersey from the World Cup quarter-final in 2011 and the prized geansaí of Kiwi legend, Richie McCaw.