A FUND-RAISING campaign for children affected by the extremely rare Battens Disease reached new heights over the weekend.

TWO members of the Cork senior football team will feature on the bill at the Rylane BC tournament at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom on December 7.

A 24-year-old carpenter has been given a suspended sentence for his part in an altercation during which he lost part of his ear after being hit in the neck with a meat cleaver by his co-accused.

TWO of Ireland’s leading female boxers, Olga Cronin (Dungarvan) and Laura O’Neill (Kilkenny), will touch gloves when Rylane Boxing Club stage a star-studded charity show in aid of Macroom Hospital at the River Park Hotel in Macroom on Sunday night.