Skibbereen celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landings on Friday night, with Bridge Street transformed into a wacky lunar landscape populated by astronauts and aliens for the West Corktown’s annual arts festival street party.

It wasn’t pretty but Tipperary manager Niamh Lillis was pleased that her charges hit the last five points to register a hard-fought 0-15 to 0-11 win over Meath in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship at Donaghmore-Ashbourne on Saturday.

Cork had to dig deep but inspired by Orla Cronin they produced a trademark improved second-half showing to finally see off Waterford by 2-10 to 0-7 the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship.

Nine points from Chloe Foxe propelled St Martin’s to the final of the AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship as a result of a 0-11 to 0-5 win over Inniscarra at WIT Carriganore.

Cork manager Paudie Murray may look at making changes for his side’s trip to Trim to play Meath in Saturday’s Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, but that should not be interpreted as the Rebels taking anything for granted.

World rowing champions Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll don't make the cut for podium funding.

Aoife Murray is the new captain of All-Ireland camogie champions Cork, who begin their Littlewoods Ireland League campaign against Galway at Cork Camogie Grounds tomorrow. A sister of manager Paudie and former All-Ireland-winning Rebel hurler Kevin, the 34-year-old Cloughduv goalkeeper is going into her 17th year at senior level and hoping to add to

It was a moment made for A Season of Sundays. After Cork got over the line against Galway in the All-Ireland camogie semi-final, a heartbroken Aoife Donohue knelt crumpled on the pitch.

You don’t have to be an avid camogie follower to know of the growing friction between Cork and Kilkenny.

Cork 2-9

Champions Kilkenny got their Double Double bid under way with a smooth success over Waterford at Walsh Park.

A couple, who were in a state of undress in their tent at the Electric Picnic Festival in 2015 when security men burst in to search their belongings, have each settled a damages claim against the organisers and two security companies.

Cork were singing in the rain at the Coralstown Kinnegad grounds, producing a power-packed second-half performance to win the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie Leagues Division 2 title for a fifth time.

Kilkenny and Cork progressed to the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 1 final on April 23 after overcoming the challenges of Galway and Limerick respectively.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Inniscarra 1-10 Inagh-Kilnamona 0-7: Just three days after securing a first Cork crown in five years, Inniscarra are only one game away from adding a Munster title after a strong second half showing to defeat newly crowned Clare champions Inagh-Kilnamona.

Paralympian Orla Barry is already targeting Toyko gold after being honoured in Cork for her silver medal in the F57 discus in Rio.

A day of innocent fun among friends on a beach turned to tragedy and the death of a 19-year-old Co Cork student, an inquest heard yesterday.

Splendid Wish enjoys a quick drop in class for tonight’s fifth race at Curraheen Park and Niamh McCarthy’s oldstager warrants the nap selection.

The family of a young boy buried in a sand dune for over 10 minutes are arranging to meet the four men who saved the 10-year-old’s life.

Droopys Delfino can earn a place in the upcoming Irish Derby by winning the featured Ladbrokes.com Derby Trial Stake.

A challenge to Irish students to raise €55,000 in cash for a charity in West Africa may seem a near impossible task, but one group of schoolgirls proved that with the right motivation and much teamwork the feat could be achieved.

A requested safety survey of Kerry’s 80km of sand dunes cannot be carried out.

The offertory gifts were the essential tools of any 19-year-old woman — lip gloss, mobile phone and an iPod.

A local man who tried to save a teenage girl trapped under a sand dune in Kerry has described how he and her friends dug desperately with their hands to try to save her.

People are being warned to stay away from sand cliff areas on beaches which are “inherently unstable”.

A small, close-knit community was plunged into grief yesterday evening after news filtered out that Niamh McCarthy had died at Kerry General Hospital in Tralee.

A teenage girl who was trapped under a collapsed sand dune in west Kerry yesterday has passed away.

A 19-year-old woman was fighting for her life in hospital last night after being injured when a sand dune collapsed on her in the Dingle Peninsula.

The importance of talking to someone if you are feeling down or have concerns about one of your friends was highlighted at a conference for second-level students aimed at breaking the stigma surrounding suicide.

A GROUP of Cork students who played a leading role in raising awareness of suicide among young people in their community were last night named as Young Social Innovators of the Year 2011.

RENA BUCKLEY’S mantelpiece needs just one more bauble to be complete.

INNISCARRA isn’t so much a place as a feeling and, lately, that feeling has been jubilant. The parish, eight kilometres or so from Cork city is home to about 7,000 souls but, right now 33 of them are the ones who really matter.

SUICIDE, shrouded in shame and secrecy, is one of the greatest causes of misery in Ireland, a conference on suicide heard.

INNISCARRA booked an All-Ireland senior club camogiefinal date with Killimor at Croke Park after overcoming a Jane Adams-inspired O’Donovan Rossa yesterday (1-14 to 1-6).

Limerick journalist Niamh McCarthy expected to be starting a dream holiday