Two brothers, their father, and three companies with offices in Co Clare have brought a legal action aimed at requiring a fund to perform an amended settlement agreement reached by them with Allied Irish Banks.

Even the responsible role of executive vice president and chief product officer for Citrix sometimes takes a backseat to sporting events 5,000 miles away.

PJ Gallagher took on the challenge for Make a Wish Ireland.

Within two hours, almost €1000 has been raised.

Courtmacsherry Harbour Lifeboat has paid tribute to its crew for their life-saving efforts in the Fastnet disaster 40 years ago.

Tributes have been paid to the “kind-hearted” former garda who died on Thursday morning following a car crash in east Cork.

A former Garda in his fifties who was employed as a caretaker at a college has been named locally as the driver who died in East Cork following a collision between a car and a fuel truck this morning.

Paul Buckley beat Wayne Callanan in the last shot of their Munster intermediate championship tie at Peake. He led over two bowls of odds, but Callanan finished strongly to force a last shot.

Andrew Cagney’s goal entering the final quarter of the game was the crucial score as Charleville edged out Graigue-Ballycallan in this All-Ireland intermediate club hurling semi-final in Thurles.

Aslan were the only artists to appear twice in the top 10 with 'Crazy World' and 'This Is'.

Two of the best and most consistent club sides in Connacht, went toe to toe in Tuam Stadium yesterday. Corofin produced the best and stylish football, yet they once again had to go extra-time to finish the job. Why do they make it hard on themselves, asks John Divilly.

Martin Hayes has travelled from the céilí bands of his native Clare, via The Gloaming, to a new quartet with American musicians, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

A couple needs to be earning at least €75,000 between them to have any chance of buying a house, according to homelessness campaigner Fr Peter McVerry.

Now that we have a budget, perhaps the minister would be good enough as to have a closer look at the anomaly whereby social welfare recipients under the age of 24 are paid a mere €102 per week, while their fellow recipients receive about twice that amount.

Good man, PJ.

See how you fared with the weekend’s golf fixtures.

Legal colleagues and the sporting community in West Cork have paid tributes to the late PJ O’Driscoll, a West Cork-based solicitor who died suddenly on Sunday.

A Championship opener at Dr Cullen Park may not have been one for the purists to salivate over, but the intrigue was constant and the reward for Carlow far greater than the immediacy of a Leinster quarter-final date with Dublin. That may be daunting, but it can wait, writes John Divilly.

A marriage of tradition and technology may be a match made in heaven for this year’s World Fiddle Day, writes Pet O’Connell

THERE’s a zoning game of patience to be played out on a former Cork suburban pitch and putt course, with the arrival of a prime land parcel, detached house and old stone outbuildings on the South Douglas Road.

Three young men were remanded in custody for their parts in a violent disorder in the northside of Cork city last summer — the worst public order incident the local sergeant has seen in 10 years in the area.

Jack McGowan used to train at night for fear of being thought mad, writes Feidhlim Kelly.

There were equine stars a-plenty at last Sunday’s Clonmel Show, from the Garda mounted unit (on show alongside the armed response unit and the sniffer dogs), to the donkey derby, and Grand Prix showjumping (won by rider Micheal Pender).

Two sons of billionaire businessman Jim Mansfield will go on trial in November on ammunition charges.

Nestled neatly between Urlingford and Two-Mile-Borris lies the sleepy village of Gortnahoe.

Neil Delamere’s latest TV outing puts an amusing spin on all sorts of science stories, writes Ellie O’Byrne

There are some quite astonishing facts which I wish to lay before you, as we approach the fabled feast day of our patron saint without a real government in office.

A paramedic who sued for nervous shock after witnessing the death of his colleague who fell out of a moving ambulance has settled his High Court action.

Family, friends and politicians bade a final farewell to PJ Mara yesterday as the former government press secretary was laid to rest in Co Galway.

PJ Mara, the flamboyant former government press secretary, will be buried in Kinvara Co Galway tomorrow beside his late wife.

PJ Banville has provided Wexford football boss David Power with a timely New Year boost.

Gardai are unable to pursue prosecutions for the sale and possession of some ‘legal highs’ even if they have been linked deaths, according to a senior Garda in the National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau.

Twenty-one months out of rugby was a long, lonely time for Mike Sherry.