The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork has become the first public gallery in Ireland to acquire work by Bob Carlos Clarke, the renowned photographer from Kinsale who took his own life in 2006.

This year’s degree show at the Crawford College of Art and Design is an exhibition not to be missed. Until June 15, students graduating in fine and applied art are showing their work in the college’s high-ceilinged studio spaces.

Donncha O’Brien was brilliant at Durrus where he beat Jerry Gibbons by almost a bowl in torrential rain in the West Cork Junior A championship.

Des O’Sullivan tells a tale of bad weather in Kinsale that left a legacy.

Edmund Sexton had an exceptional weekend. On Saturday at Ballinagree he won the feature score of the Donagh Murphy-Kingston Fund and on Sunday he won the Dutch Moors European championship trials at Castletownkenneigh.

The owners of Bantry House have said they have staved off the prospect of having to auction some of its contents although the search is continuing for a longer-term solution.

Peter Murray wonders why, in an eclectic collection of writers’ responses to works on show at the National Gallery the majority of contributors chose pieces that allowed them avoid eye-to-eye contact with the subject.

THE late Michael Sheehan returned to his native West Cork at the age of 82, after a lifetime of working on cargo boats and travelling around the world. An impulse to paint seized him and in just four years, until his death in 1996, Sheehan produced a series of naïve oil paintings depicting local historical events and the raw beauty of his birthplace, the Beara peninsula.

Irish authors have taken pieces in the National Gallery as inspiration for prose and poetry, writes Peter Murray

Tributes have been paid to one of Cork’s best loved artists, Gladys Leach, after she passed away over the weekend.

Following last weekend’s All-Ireland series in Armagh the 13 premier titles of 2014 have been decided with Ulster ending the series on seven wins to Munster’s six.

Live music: The Eagles

There’s more to Blarney Castle than kissing the famous stone. The 100-acre gardens have been home to large sculptures since 2012. ‘Sculpture at the Castle’ is one of the largest outdoor sculpture trails in Ireland. This year, it will be launched by the director of the Crawford Art Gallery, Peter Murray, on June 13.

All-Ireland senior women’s champion Carmel Ryan secured a hard-fought victory over Sharon Russell in the first round of the Munster championship at Ballinacurra.

Springtime is inspiring some fresh and funky styles.

A new exhibition at the Crawford Art Gallery explores the brief career of Samuel Forde, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan

YOU have got to make a trip to Cork. The city is looking beautiful (of course) and it’s full of life. It seems as if the people of the Rebel County are thumbing their nose at the recession, and getting on with things as they always did. Streets are busy, restaurants and bars are hopping, there’s a lot of colour about.

Richard Mosse’s installation at the Venice Biennale features his grim photographs of the Congo, writes Peter Murray

THE phrase connecting clouds to silver linings might be well applied to ‘Liminal’, the exhibition showcasing work by degree students of the Crawford College of Art and Design.

A new exhibition in Cork showcases artists from Berlin, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan

Painted in 1434 The Arnolfini Portrait still influences contemporary painters and writers. Peter Murray on a new history of the masterpiece

Bernard Meehan’s new history of the Book of Kells is a reminder of what an amazing creation it really is, writes Peter Murray

A secondary school class received a first-hand lesson on the dangers of drugs yesterday as they watched two men jailed for transporting €1.5m worth of heroin.

Peter Murray says the Renaissance artist’s sensual, uninhibited depictions of male and female beauty made his reputation and reflected his sexual zeal

A lost portrait of William T Cosgrave, the president of the first Dáil, was unveiled last night for the first time in almost a century.

Some of the most valuable paintings in state-owned AIB’s vast corporate art collection were unveiled to the public at Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery yesterday.

The Crawford Gallery in Cork needs more government funding to open on Sundays and bank holidays.

A display of paintings at Crawford Art Gallery invites you to guess if the artist is John Butts or Nathaniel Grogan, reports Tina O’Sullivan

AIB is giving 39 of its finest art pieces worth over €5m back to the taxpayer.

A GAMBLER who was under pressure to repay his debts climbed a drainpipe to get in through a first-floor window of the parochial house in Ballincollig where he stole €7,000 in cash.

Two men appeared in court today charged in connection with the seizure of a €2.4m haul of heroin.

Movers and Shapers 3: Conversations in the Irish Art World

DAPHNE Pochin Mould is a remarkable name for a remarkable woman.

ROCKWELL COLLEGE, one of the traditional powerhouses in the game for more than a century, and Castletroy College, who have burst on to the scene in sensational fashion over the past few years, clash in an intriguing Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final at Clanwilliam Park, Tipperary this afternoon (3pm).

A SUPERB drop goal by centre Peter Murray three and a half minutes into added time earned Castletroy College victory over champions CBC at Greenfields yesterday and an opportunity to reclaim the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup they last won in 2008.

VICTORS and vanquished will reflect on this Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup tie and wonder how the scoreline was so lopsided.

Around 11,000 jobs could be axed because of cross-border spending sprees, business chiefs claimed today.

Hordes surged across the border into the North today as they used the national strike to stock up on Christmas shopping.

OFFICIALS at the Dutch embassy have agreed to meet heritage campaigners fighting for a tourist centre on the site of Ireland’s oldest brewery.

CLEARLY learning from defeat in their first outing against St Munchin’s, CBC made no mistake when given a second opportunity to revive their challenge for the Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup at Dooradoyle yesterday.

GLENSTAL ABBEY bid to build on the promise of their maiden Limerick City Cup win when they meet Crescent College Comprehensive in the Avonmore Milk Munster Senior Schools Cup quarter-final at Clanwilliam today.