Des O’Sullivan reviews a forthcoming show of work by the artist who was brave enough to paint the Famine. 

Colour Me Cork 5km fun run at Tramore Valley Regional Park, Cork City on Saturday 4th July 2015.

Islands, a magnificent oil on board by Patrick Collins (1911-1994) is a feature lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s art auction at the RDS on September 15 at 6pm. 

Gardaí got a warrant to search a house at Fairhill in Cork where they found a stash of heroin with a street value of €1,000.

The spirit of John Lennon was alive and well on Cork City’s northside yesterday when a mobile sound studio was laid on for some talented local musicians.

As the school year ends, author Denise Deegan drops in on the TY girls at St Angela’s in Cork to hear their plans for the future

The Irish famine was almost a taboo topic while he grew up in New York, John Lahey recalls.

There’s a new fashion season coming and the September issues of the glossies are your required reading.

Enniskillen's Gavin Noble is back on course to compete for Ireland in the triathlon at the London Olympics after he suffered a fractured shin in May.

AISLING COONEY and Melanie Nocher narrowly missed World Championship qualification at the Irish Long Course finals at the NAC yesterday.

OLYMPIC swimmer Aisling Cooney tuned up for her trip to the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Eindhoven next week with a win in the 50m backstroke event at the Irish Short Course Championships in Salthill, Galway yesterday.

JAMIE COSTIN achieved the qualifying standard for the European championships but there was disappointment for Robert Heffernan and Olive Loughnane who were both disqualified at the Coppa Città di Sesto San Giovanni IAAF Race Walking Challenge on Saturday.

WHILE the rate of hospital-acquired MRSA infections has fallen in Ireland, there is concern at the increase in other bacterial infections that can be resistant to antibiotics, a medical expert warned.

THE expression on his face as he powered his way up the home straight said it all as Drogheda athlete, Keith Kelly, buried 10 years of frustration at Santry Park yesterday by claiming the National senior cross-country title for the first time at the age of 31.

IRISH records continued to tumble at the Kantrida Indoor Swimming Complex in Rijeka, Croatia yesterday on the second day of competition at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008.

BELFAST’S Melanie Nocher yesterday smashed Michelle Smith’s 14-year-old Irish 200m backstroke record at the Speedo western Canadian swimming championships.

KILKENNY’S Eileen O’Keeffe was the big winner at Saturday night’s inaugural Athletics Ireland National Athletics awards in Dublin.

SUSAN PONTAC travelled 9,600km to compete in and complete yesterday’s Irish Examiner Limerick Women’s Mini Marathon in a wheelchair.

THEY had lithe aching limbs, sweaty brows and were panting to catch their breath after one of the country’s biggest road races yesterday.

IRISH swimmers smashed 11 national records in the last week.

MARK CHRISTIE (Westmeath) claimed his first national senior title with victory at the inter-counties cross-country championships at St Augustine’s College, Dungarvan, yesterday.

A RECORD 3,145 participants took part in yesterday’s Irish Examiner Limerick Women’s Mini-Marathon.

Swim Ireland (SI) has announced the Irish swimmers who have qualified to compete in this year’s European Senior and Junior Championships.

EVERYONE was a winner yesterday as Limerick took to the roads in the Irish Examiner Limerick Women’s Mini Marathon.

PAULINE CURLEY, after dominating the road racing in Leinster throughout the summer months, turned to Munster yesterday to add the Irish Examiner Limerick Women’s mini-marathon to her collection of titles.

PAULINE CURLEY has dominated road racing in Leinster all summer and on Sunday she will take her talents to Munster when she lines up for the Irish Examiner Limerick Women’s Mini Marathon.

MOVES to scrap the controversial tax break for stallion owners were last night welcomed by the Green Party.

EUROPEAN gold medallist Alistair Cragg is considering an audacious attempt at the 4km and 12km titles on successive days at the World Cross-Country Championships in Saint-Etienne/Saint-Galmier next weekend.

WHILE the Irish competitors in the Flora London Marathon were having a disastrous day on Sunday the Irish women’s team at the Ekiden Relays in Brussels were enjoying a profitable weekend with a sweeping victory while the men’s team finished in second place.

DEFENDING champions, University of Limerick, go into the ESB Women’s Cup as raging hot favourites to retain the title.

INSURANCE costs need not be an obstacle to providing playgrounds for children, as compensation claims from playground accidents are only a tiny fraction of total claims, an expert group has said.

VALERIE VAUGHAN (Blarney/Inniscarra) got the victory she had always wanted when she finished clear of defending champion Anne Keenan-Buckley (North Laois), to win the Evening Echo Cork Women’s Mini-Marathon yesterday, when she defied the tight corners and series of energy-sapping climbs that punctuated the new course to cover the five miles in 27 minutes 45 seconds, and that was just nine seconds clear of the runner-up.