Olympic medal-winning brothers and the creator of YouTube sensation Martin’s Life are among the bookies’ favourites to win the Cork Person of the Year award.

Around 8,500 runners pounded the streets around Cork City yesterday for the Evening Echo Mini Marathon, with more smiles than grimaces in evidence as they poured across the finishing line.

It was reported thatattempts are being made to split the Right2Water campaign, if this is true, and many say it is not, it would be disturbing as Right2Water is the only social movement capable of effecting real change in Ireland.

I was upset reading the petty attack on the water protests by Victoria White, the wife of Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan.

A local authority meeting was interrupted twice last night when anti-water tax protestors refused to sit down in the upper gallery of Cork’s City Hall.

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

ONE night some 43 years ago a delegation was ushered into a meeting of the Kerry County GAA Board in Tralee.

ONCE upon a time, and a very short time ago it was, before developers descended, before machinery moved in, before the concrete jungle was born, we lived in a village.