A stellar line-up of classic and contemporary French cinema is planned for next month’s Cork French Film Festival.

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CAN you imagine the following two things happening within five days of one another — Kilkenny being ahead in a National League game by nine points and losing by four; their senior hurling club champions, O’Loughlin Gaels, being up by five points with only a few minutes to go in the first half of an All-Ireland final, and losing by 12?

MICHAEL CARR is a blue chip, dyed-in-the-wool Clarinbridge hurling man.

THE 22nd Cork French Film Festival will take place next month and will be attended by one of cinema’s greatest living legends, film maker Agnes Varda.

A 19TH century observatory built on a college campus will reopen on Thursday after a €500,000 renovation project.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT open the defence of their Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup today with a tricky first round home tie against Galway IT (Limerick, 2pm).

THE Galway team to play Cork in this evening’s All-Ireland MHC semi-final in Portlaoise (6pm) is the same as that which defeated Wexford in the quarter-final.

UNIVERSITY College Cork is in seventh heaven as it advances plans to restore a century-old observatory on campus.