Back in the 70s and 80s when Kerry were in their pomp, their manager Mick O’Dwyer talked up Cork year after year as the second-best team in Ireland, behind the Kingdom.

An examiner has been appointed to a company employing 195 people in Dublin and Galway that provides cleaning services to private hospitals and state bodies after the High Court accepted it has a reasonable prospect of survival if certain conditions are met.

CHAMPIONS Crusheen booked a date against Sixmilebridge in the Clare SHC final following an impressive semi-final display at Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday.

HARD to imagine Lar Corbett or John Mullane coming out with that one and, indeed, neither did. The pithy statement was, rather, the summation of one of the players from a team known as the Wild Geese as they left the field following a game on Saturday.

A NEW internet scam has emerged aimed at online businesses seeking to renew domain names.

COURSES that can help take the boredom out of retirement or assist in launching a new career will all be on display at an exhibition in Cork City Hall this week.

MUHAMMAD ALI met up with his Irish kinfolk yesterday when Ennis, home town of his great grandfather, Abe Grady welcomed back one of its own.

CLARE GAA chiefs last night dismissed suggestions that the Board does not own the county’s flagship ground, Cusack Park, in Ennis.

ENNIS, Co Clare, has emerged as the winner of the 2005 Tidy Towns competition - just two weeks after it was branded one of the State’s dirtiest places in an environmental study.

St Flannans2-15 St Kierans2-12

St Flannan's 1-11 Thurles CBS 1-6

Mount Sion 4-13 Kilmaley 0-9