The 2014 Sliabh Luachra Music Trail, celebrating the traditional musical style of the area, will be launched on Friday by Arts Minister, Jimmy Deenihan, TD, at Ballydesmond Community Centre. The aim is a year-round calendar of events, encompassing festivals and venues throughout the region.

Midleton 1-24 Bride Rovers 1-11

Quality strikes from two deadly finishers made all the difference in this Cork SHC fourth round clash at Ballynoe on Saturday as Midleton booked their place in the quarter-finals with a hard earned victory over battling Avondhu.

PEOPLE living in a remote village in Co Cork have described their shock and disbelief that the county’s largest on-land seizure of cocaine was discovered in such a quiet backwater.

A PILOT survey of Killarney’s multi-million euro tourism industry may be a model for similar studies in other Irish destinations.

TWO goals in the opening half set up Sarsfields for a hard-fought win over Midleton in the replay of the East Cork U21AHC final at Ballynoe yesterday.

MIDLETON sprung a huge surprise in the Evening Echo Cork SHC first round at Carrigtwohill on Saturday when they shunted Sarsfields towards the backdoor route with an excellent success.

AS the funeral of Ciarán MacMathuna was taking place in Dublin yesterday, the legendary broadcaster was remembered in the heartlands of traditional music where he harvested Irish music and song over nearly 50 years.

READ it carefully. Today, 15 teams bid to scale the highest peak in each of the 32 counties in 100 hours or less.

THE death of a 19-year-old man from a suspected cocaine overdose and subsequent multiple seizures of narcotics in a rural part of north Cork has accelerated an anti-drug programme in the area.

GARDAÍ were following a definite line of inquiry last night after seizing €140,000 worth of cocaine from an English-registered car parked on Cork’s northside.

A cocaine treatment clinic is expected to open in Cork later this year.

A small amount of cannabis and cocaine were seized by Gardaí during raids on seven houses in Co Cork today, following the death of a 19-year old man.

BERTIE AHERN yesterday set a new speed record for entering and leaving a pub.

A FORMER member of the French Foreign Legion, who survived an attack by Iraqi insurgents in which 22 of his colleagues died, underwent major surgery at Cork University Hospital yesterday.

AN IRISH security man who had a miracle escape when 22 of his colleagues were killed in an ambush in Iraq is expected to return home tomorrow.

AN Irishman, working with a private security firm in Iraq, is recovering in hospital after surviving a car bomb attack that killed several colleagues.