A coroner is to issue summonses for several key witnesses who failed to attend a joint inquest yesterday into the deaths of two men in a house fire.

A good portion of the Cork City squad which will arrive at the Aviva tomorrow for the FAI Cup final will have finished in the runner-up position in the league for the third year in a row.

A mother who was “left with nothing” after losing her son and friend in a house fire earlier this year has moved into a new home.

Dave Ludzik looks at four of City’s best wins at Turner’s Cross...

A programme of readings, a feature of the West Cork Literary Festival since it began in the mid-90s, is to be dedicated to the memory of former Irish Examiner columnist Denise Hall.

A heartbroken mother-of-four has spoken out about her grief after she woke from a coma to find her son and her friend had been killed in the fire that nearly claimed her own life, writes Kelly O'Brien of the Evening Echo.

The mother of Kenneth Relihan, who died in a house fire in Macroom last week, has been left with “nothing” following the tragedy, her daughter said yesterday.

Locals who tried to save two men who died in a house fire have told of how the heat and flames beat back their efforts even as a woman jumped to safety from an upstairs window.

One of the more prominent features on the front of Nóirín McAuliffe’s house in Macroom is a satellite dish, prompting thoughts about what she might have been watching on Sunday night.

When the players of FC Haka of Finland walked off the pitch at Turner’s Cross in July 2008 following an entertaining 2-2 draw, few of the home fans could have predicted that it would be seven long years before the ground would hold another European club fixture.

Please allow me to acknowledge the tremendous achievement, both on and off the field, by Cork City FC. 

Two former inter-county managers strongly oppose the mandatory coaching standards introduced by the GAA.

Brian Carey arrived for the interview at a Cork hotel with a ready-made intro: by sheer coincidence, the Tuesday on which we were meeting turned out to be 24 years ago to the very day since he’d left his hometown, Cork, for England to begin a career in professional football which would take him to Manchester United, Leicester City, Wrexham, Doncaster Rovers and Wolves and see him experience almost all aspects of the game – from the glorious to the grim – as, variously, player, skipper, coach, scout, assistant manager and manager.

There aren’t too many men who have created a sporting legend at Páirc Uí Rinn, Turner’s Cross and Musgrave Park. Perhaps former Cork City manager Noel O’Mahony, who died on Thursday night at the age of 73, is the only one.

CHICKEN curry, vegetarian chickpea soup, chilli con carne and stew.

THESE Chinese students represent the changing face of an Irish college which has been captured in a book.

EAMON CORCORAN has withdrawn from the Irish team to play Scotland in the shinty international at Croke Park on Sunday.