David Murphy opened with six brilliant bowls at Bauravilla to send him on his way to an emphatic win over Martin Coppinger in the Mick Crowley Cup.

Hundreds of the working poor and the self-employed joined the unemployed in a 30m-long queue outside an international jobs fair in Cork yesterday.

Fittingly, one of the warmest rounds of applause at the Munster GAA awards was reserved for a man who has clapped and cheered on club and county teams for over half a century.

JOURNALIST Con Houlihan, long considered one of this country’s finest sports writers, has won an inaugural all-Ireland Inspirational Life Award.

Theo Dorgan, broadcaster, sailor and author, will receive the prestigious O’Shaughnessy Prize for Irish poetry in a couple of weeks in the United States: clearly he’s a man of diverse interests. When Michael Moynihan asked him about his sporting interests he revealed a keen focus.

THE HSE has issued an alert to farmers, people working outdoors and users of lakes, rivers and canals to take precautions against the spread of an infectious disease leptospirosis, which is spread by contact with rat, cow or dog urine.

A Charolais weanling bull weighing 460kg sold for €1,000 after winning the overall championship at the annual weanling show and sale at Macroom Mart.

PROVEN WOODS emerged as the top lot at the first Saturday sales at Curraheen Park over the weekend.

GOVERNMENT funding cuts to third-level education must be urgently reversed if colleges are to properly benefit society and the economy, the country’s newest university president has claimed.

CORK School of Music can expect a fourfold increase in student numbers following the Government’s endorsement of plans for construction of a new €60 million premises.

EUROPEAN Parliament president Pat Cox has urged the Government to fork out the €55m promised two years ago for a new Cork School of Music building.