A man denied demanding €10,000 with menaces from a man in north Cork.

A microscopic look at the setting up of the national school system, and a summary of how people’s lives changed over almost one and a half centuries, A History of Cloneyharp National School 1837-1979 is a window into the past. Con Ryan and Tom Carroll have succeeded in bringing back to life, vividly, a time gone but not forgotten.

For those more used to the muck, mud, rain and cold of deep winter that normally accompanies their favourite sport, it was positively balmy in Clonmel yesterday for the first day of the 83rd running of the annual National Coursing Meeting.

DOUGLAS Community School break new ground tomorrow when they play in the Irish Examiner-sponsored Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC) for the first time.

The Mayor of Limerick today defended the city’s reputation against comments made by a judge suggesting it deserved to be known as ‘‘stab city’’.