They beat Liam Cahill's Waterford in a soggy Fraher Field with 2,976 in attendance.

Cork city’s Clancy’s bar is set to rise again, in time for its 195th birthday, part of a c€3.5/€4m total investment by its new consortium of owners.

Three stunning saves from Shaun O’Brien and 11 Jack Fagan points saw De La Salle come from seven points down to edge Lismore 2-21 to 1-18 in a thriller at Fraher Field yesterday.

Irish and British General Elections could yet run in parallel before the end game, most likely a Customs Union deal, writes Eddie Hobbs

There are fears that a Cork city music venue which announced its opening in late July has closed after just three months.

Republic of Ireland 4 Northern Ireland 0

TV chef Rachel Allen is to close her first restaurant for a €1m casual dining reinvention. Rachel’s, on Cork’s Washington St, which opened in March 2017, will close on August 8 for the eight-week revamp.

Although Mao’s crude attack didn’t succeed, tree sparrows are vulnerable, as their roller-coaster history in Ireland shows, writes Richard Collins

It’s time to cough up the cash and get on with it.

Northern Ireland 0 Republic of Ireland 2: Megan Campbell starred for Ireland last night as they easily overcame Northern Ireland in Lurgan to begin their 2019 World Cup quest with victory.

The publisher of the Daily Mirror newspaper is in talks to acquire 100% of Daily Express group Northern & Shell.

Since 1991, and now including Donald Trump, US groups lobbying against carbon dioxide controls have relied on the research of two economists, says Benjamin Franta

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

Owners of two of Cork’s best-known nightclubs have lodged appeals against a decision to grant planning for student apartments on the former Beamish and Crawford site.

Like any good army, the Irish economy is marching back to full-bellied recovery on its stomach with up to a half-dozen new restaurants flooding into one section of Cork city alone. 

A 6-year-old boy who is severely brain damaged has settled for €5.5m his action against the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, over his care when he was brought to the hospital at eight days old and later diagnosed with meningitis.

Police in the North say drugs and paramilitary links are forming part of the investigation into the murder of Joe Reilly in west Belfast.

Munster MHC play-off - Waterford 1-20 Tipperary 1-17: Waterford minor hurling boss Stephen Gough got the response he craved from his team at Walsh Park on Saturday. 

Waterford 1-10 Cork 0-17: An impressive Cork side overcame a disastrous start to ease to victory over Waterford in this Munster MHC clash in Walsh Park, Waterford.

Sacha Baron Cohen's wife has "made love" to all his characters.

Job done for Tipperary at Semple Stadium last evening as Charlie McGeever’s hosts blew away Waterford 2-16 to 1-7 to book their place in the Electric Ireland Munster MFC semi-finals.

I find it extraordinary that CACS (Campaign for Abolition of Cruel Sports) are “aghast” (Irish Examiner, Letters, April 8 ) that there have been no reported sightings of the Irish hare on Bull Island since June, 2014. 

A history of the world in the first half of the 20th century is contained in 17 lots from a Skibbereen autograph collector to be sold at Whyte’s in Dublin on September 20.

A 24-year-old man was convicted of killing three women and a teenage girl in northern British Columbia, making him one of Canada’s youngest serial killers.

Fresh searches have taken place at the home of a young woman who was murdered 25 years ago.

A man who had pornographic images of children as young as10 on his phone was forced to leave his home because of media reports of these offences, a court has heard.

A decade on, vintners now figure strongly among the more avid supporters of the smoking ban, as Catherine Shanahan discovers

PARK STREET Cemetery in central Calcutta, or Kolkata as it is now known, is a good place to encounter the Irish who once served in the British army in India, including many who were employed as petty officials in the centuries before Indian independence.

Irish censors didn’t just impose their rulings in this country. One early pioneer also served in Britain, writes Robert Hume

Tabloid veteran David Montgomery is leading talks to consolidate Britain’s local newspaper sector.

Seventy-one people were shot in the Colorado cinema during midnight screenings of the new Batman movie, police said.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his Supreme Court fight against extradition to Sweden from Britain to face sex crime allegations.

A LEADING wildlife researcher has called for joint action by governments, North and South, to protect some of our native wild animals from foreign species which have been introduced here.

Swedish authorities rejected arguments by Wiki- Leaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition, telling Britain’s top court that if he won the case it could turn European law on its head.

A Co Wicklow woman, who alleges she has been defamed in a “cyber tort” by The Washington Post Company, was today granted leave of the High Court to serve a claim for damages in the USA.

THE life of a British businessman accused of killing his Swedish bride on their honeymoon in Cape Town could be put at risk if he is extradited to South Africa, his High Court appeal heard.

The golfing Gods looked down on Colin Montgomerie in Inverness today and decided to make it as hard as possible for him to qualify for next week’s Open.