St Colman’s produced a great performance in Ballincollig to qualify for the Dean Ryan (U16.5 A hurling) final.

A teenager who saved two friends from drowning has been hailed a hero.

A Dublin motorist who crashed an Audi car over the side of a skew bridge in Cork on to railway tracks below later said to a garda: “You know I am drunk — I am langers.”

Amazingly, this is not Mr Dempsey’s first time coming to the rescue of a kitty at risk with his cherry picker.

Michael Harrington franked his All-Ireland intermediate credentials with an impressive win over Christy Mullins in the Cancer Research benefit at Shannonvale on Saturday.

One of the more remarkable aspects of the closure of the Ford plant in 1984 was that so many people were left reeling in surprise.

The post-war era saw a return to full production in Cork, but the economic path wasn’t always smooth. Some workers sailed to Dagenham, while those who stayed saw plenty of VIP guests.

Trevor Deane bowled brilliantly at Caheragh to lift the O’Sullivan-Keating Cup at the expense of Denis O’Sullivan.

The James O’Donovan juggernaut continued in the Co-Action benefit in Casteltownkenneigh where he beat Killian Kingston. Brothers Aidan and David Murphy beat Martin Coppinger and Séamus Sexton in the opening score there.

Fifteen private solicitors’ practices received fees in excess of €200,000 last year for carrying out work on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Cork football management had to go “cap in hand” to several clubs when seeking a pitch for training during the first two months of the year, selector Eoin O’Neill has revealed.

Gary Daly reversed his Munster senior final defeat by beating David Murphy in the last shot of a thrilling Denis McGarry Cup final at Whitechurch .

Aidan Desmond was an impressive winner over Seán Twomey in the Munster Junior C semi-final at Templemichael on Sunday.

Cork PIHC: Tracton 1-17 Courcey Rovers 1-11

Michael Bohane will lead the Munster challenge at next weekend’s All-Ireland finals following his clear win over Raymond Ryan in Sunday’s intermediate final at Lyre.

An Angolan national who got refugee status to live in Ireland went on to claim over €50,000 in social welfare to which he was not entitled because he was working.

Since the demise of the senior interprovincial tournament, its junior counterpart has taken on ever-increasing relevance and it again comes to Cork this weekend.

On Sunday, David Murphy beat Martin Coppinger by almost a bowl in the Denis McGarry Cup semi-final at Whitechurch, the feature score of a packed weekend that included four tournament finals and several cup ties.

Christy Mullins had a decisive win over James O’Donovan at Shannonvale.

Jimmy Nyhan is Munster Vintage (over-60) champion following a battling performance against Mikie O’Driscoll (B) and DD Carroll at Timoleague on Saturday.

Christy Mullins beat the line in 17 shots from the town line at Skibbereen to record a bowl of odds win over Michael Toal in the CoAction Benefit on the Marsh Road.

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UCC 1-12 Cork IT 1-9

An accountant sacked by a national sporting organisation was “collateral damage” and “the jam in the sandwich” in a row between the club’s current president and other executive members, a tribunal has heard.

Two members of An Garda Síochána appeared in Cork District Court yesterday charged with assault causing harm to a 16-year-old boy.

You couldn’t blame me for pining for Pana on Monday night.

Cloyne 3-15 Carrigaline 3-11

Bride Rovers 2-13 Cloyne 2-12

Trevor O’Meara led from line to line in his bowl-of-odds win over Raymond Ryan in the Munster Intermediate final at Donoughmore on Sunday.

Liam O’Sullivan is Munster Junior A champion following a comprehensive win over Patrick O’Donoghue at Templemartin on Sunday.

The Munster senior championship quarter-final draws and next Sunday’s Pool A play-off at Skibbereen between Aidan Murphy, Martin Coppinger and James O’Donovan are dominating bowling discourse this week.

Brian Wilmot maintained his perfect senior championship record by beating David Murphy in the last shot in Pool C at Templemartin on Saturday.

EIGHT people have now died, four of them pedestrians, in a Christmas week of carnage on the country’s roads.

THAT Ballymartle were within two points of Cloyne at half-time in this Cork SHC round two game in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday owed much to the brilliance of keeper Declan McCarthy; that they were ahead at the end of the hour, owed just as much to the accuracy from placed balls of his namesake Darren McCarthy in midfield as it did to the corresponding inaccuracy of a succession of Cloyne free-takers.

A POWERFUL display of attacking football saw champions Clonakilty Community College reach their second consecutive All-Ireland Vocational Schools’ SAFC final at Kilmallock on Saturday where they crushed Athenry VS in a one-sided semi-final.

DAVID O’MAHONY beat David Hubbard by a bowl of odds in the Champy Deasy Cup final at Grange on Sunday.

A DENTIST who opened all the buttons on his assistant’s tunic to check the quality of the material had his indecent assault conviction dismissed on appeal yesterday.

DIARMUID O’SULLIVAN may have been absent, but younger brothers Colm and Paudie were to the fore as Cloyne beat White’s Cross in the Evening Echo County JAFC quarter-final at Carraig na bhFear on Saturday.

ONE of the biggest GAA club developments in the country — which was part-funded by a local property tycoon — is nearing completion in north Cork.