A John Sheehan goal proved pivotal for Carbery as they eventually saw off Avondhu in the opening round of the divisional phase of the Cork SHC in Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

A Cork father of nine who brutally raped his teenage daughter on a weekly basis when she was aged between 16 and 17 has been jailed for nine years.

Michael Collins never lived in the Georgian house in the West Cork town of Clonakilty, which is being painstakingly restored as a museum dedicated to the life of Ireland’s best known freedom fighter.

Kildorrery 1-11 Éire Óg 1-5: A depleted Éire Óg side bowed out of the Cork IHC in Mallow yesterday, Kildorrery denying them by six points to progress beyond the fourth round yesterday.

Thomas McCormack speaking at the National Monument on the Grand Parade at the O’Donovan Rossa Centenary Commemoration in Cork.

Conor McGuigan beat All-Ireland champion Aidan Murphy by almost a bowl in the final of the Joe McVeigh Cup on Sunday, the feature event of the Ból-Fada festival on the Markethill Road near Keady, Co. Armagh. 

A €1.3m museum, dedicated to Michael Collins and two other West Cork patriots, is to open in Clonakilty at the end of June.

Two people who availed of Cork’s homeless services before their bodies were recovered from the River Lee died from drowning.

Patrick O’Donoghue just edged PJ Cooney in the last shot of their Munster intermediate championship clash at Templemichael on Saturday. 

The Bishop of Cloyne has asked for prayers from the diocese following a suspected murder-suicide stabbing, involving a man who worked in the gardens of the Bishop's palace.

The husband and wife who died in a multiple stabbing at their family home in Cobh, Co Cork today have been named locally as physiotherapist Michael Greaney, 63, and his wife Valerie, aged in her 60s.

The family of one of two homeless people whose bodies were taken from the River Lee on Sunday night has asked that donations be made to the Cork Simon Community.

I have to take issue with your editorial (Irish Examiner December 3) with regard to the industrial action taken by the two post-primary teacher unions, the ASTI and the TUI.

The council is painstakingly restoring the house in Emmet Square, Clonakilty, where Collins once worked.

A grieving mother has said she forgives her son for killing his nine-year-old twin brothers before taking his own life.

The deaths of twin boys and their older brother in an apparent murder-suicide should be a lesson for people to do more to get young men to talk about their problems, their funeral has heard.

The school of Thomas and Patrick O’Driscoll, who were found dead in their home just outside Charleville, Co Cork yesterday, has described the twins as "loving, energetic and full of fun".

Aidan Murphy and Christy Mullins will contest the Munster senior final on Sunday July 6 at Ballygurteen.

Martin Coppinger had a comfortable two bowls of odds win over James Buckley at Waterfall in the final pool score of the Munster senior championship on Sunday.

Independents and Sinn Féin are likely to be the biggest winners come next year’s local elections in Co Cork.

He opened with a good bowl, which Murphy missed by 30m. Murphy played his second bowl to the right and O’Donovan increased his lead to 60m.

TENANTS who rent houses from local authorities should pay a deposit which would be unreturnable if they damage the property.

SPECULATION is mounting that Fianna Fáil is planning to run just one candidate in Cork East where the party currently holds two seats.

THE Fine Gael General Election selection convention for Cork North Central constituency threw up a major surprise when the party’s standard bearer, Bernard Allen, was beaten into second place.

ANOTHER leading Fine Gael politician in Co Cork has announced that he will not be contesting the next general election.

PATRICK O’DRISCOLL won the Mother Hegarty Cup final at Lyre on Sunday where he beat Michael Bohane in the last shot of an exciting contest.

IN one of the best races seen all season, Limerick entrant See My Reflection, in rein to John Manning, just shaded long time leader Hurricane Henry in the final of the Mollie Brickley Memorial Golden Mile at Ballabuidhe yesterday.

KILLIAN KINGSTON finished strongly to beat Vincent Kiely by well over a bowl in the semi-final of the Murphy’s Stout Munster Junior A championship at Whitechurch.

THE Office of Public Works will be asked to compensate businesses in a Co Cork town which will suffer further disruption because defective concrete used in flood prevention works will have to be replaced.

SEAMUS SEXTON and Paddy O’Donoghue will meet in the Murphy’s Stout Munster Intermediate final.

NED O’Keeffe TD has said NAMA could “create a bigger mess for us than we’ve ever seen in our life before” and that Brian Lenihan’s judgment is “not great in the whole area of finance”. (RTÉ News at One, March 29).

AT least one O’Keeffe loves a north Cork town.

IN his letter (July 16), Anthony Barnwell says he finds Deputy Seán Sherlock’s suggestion of a transition year course on the EU “condescending and patronising”.

DEPUTY Ned O’Keeffe is apparently now opposed to the co-location of private hospitals on public lands (January 31).

MEMO to Tom Parlon:

THERE was some competitive fare on offer at the first session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point meeting at Fort Arthur yesterday and Claras Chesnut really brought the meeting to life for many by making every post a winning one in the featured four-mile open.

THE reaction of the west to the Israeli offensive in Lebanon was pitiful.

I HAVE followed closely the debate in the Irish Examiner over Fine Gael’s proposals on the Irish language.

CompiledJanuary 2005: Paul Buckley, aged 32, of Baker’s Road, Gurranabraher, was given a four-year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Butler for the rape and assault causing harm of a 25-year-old woman in the garden of a house in April 2002.

YOUNG Fine Gael are pushing for youth-related issues such as suicide, alcohol abuse and property prices to be included in the party’s general election manifesto.