Competition for the three Munster places for the third All-Ireland series intensified in the past week.

It is hard to imagine now when strolling around Omey Island's sand-dunes and marshes that the island was once home to 397 people, writes Dan MacCarthy

The Four Seasons Hotel Monaghan Rally ended in dramatic fashion as the Donegal/Monaghan pairing of Donagh Kelly/Conor Foley guided their KN Group liveried Ford Focus WRC to a final stage victory to deny long time leaders, the Monaghan/Cork duo of Sam Moffett/Karl Atkinson (Ford Fiesta R5).

SOME islands are synonymous with writers: JM Synge with Inis Meáin; The Great Blasket with Tomás Ó Criomhthain.

Rural depopulation may lead to championships of 9, 11, or 13-a-side in some parts of Cork, while transfer regulations in the Rebel County may also have to be changed.

Cork GAA intends to appoint an overall strength and conditioning co-ordinator to create consistency of approach from development squads to senior teams within the county.

Tracey Kennedy was confirmed last night as the first female chair in Cork GAA history as nominations closed for annual convention without a challenge to her nomination.

As Brexit talks continue to founder, the EU attacked a tax break designed to lure big companies to Britain in a clampdown that could trigger legal wrangling lasting long after the UK is scheduled to leave the EU.

Cork County Board coaching officer Kevin O’Donovan is running for the position of Board vice-chairman to offer delegates a choice on the future direction of the county.

Monday night’s meeting of the Cork County Board wasn’t solely concerned with the future of long-serving secretary Frank Murphy.

Monday night’s meeting of the Cork County Board wasn’t solely concerned with the future of long-serving secretary Frank Murphy.

The regular meeting of the Cork County Board heard last night that long-serving secretary Frank Murphy is to be given a one-year extension to his contract.

A man out walking dogs was attacked from behind by his partner’s ex-boyfriend, who warned him to stay away from her.

A group of sheds that have been transformed into the new O’Donoghue Centre for Theatre, Drama and Performance at NUI Galway has been selected for a top architecture award.

Top table officers at the Duhallow convention in North Cork have stressed the importance of the national anthem and tricolour remaining central components of GAA match-days.

Cork GAA club representatives will be given a chance to air their opinions on the future direction of the county at an open discussion meeting to be held at the end of September.

A Dublin man, who bought a €1.26m house as an investment in March 2006, now owes €340,000 in repayment arrears. He has not paid a penny of the mortgage for the past six years, a judge heard today.

Leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has rejected claims the party would split if he is elected to Labour’s top job as he set out plans to take on bankers, media moguls and the corporate world.

The manner in which the GAA’s Central Council opted against changes to the Allianz Hurling League came in for strong criticism at last night’s Cork County Board meeting at Nemo Rangers.

Two former Fianna Fáil taoisigh and a finance minister could be called to give evidence in a European Parliament investigation of how the corporate tax system in Ireland worked for both Apple and U2.

Ted Hughes’s life was marked by tragedy, but a new play recollects happier days spent in Co Galway with Assia Wevill and their children, writes Richard Fizpatrick

Tracey Kennedy is keen to ensure that she doesn’t turn out to be the only woman to sit on the executive of the Cork County Board.

The GAA in Cork has elected the first female vice-chair in its 128-year history, with teacher Tracey Kennedy ratified yesterday by delegates at its annual convention in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

A motion reducing the number of steps permitted with the ball in hand in hurling could come before the GAA’s Congress if passed at tomorrow’s Cork annual convention.

Mark Landers was last night confirmed as the new coach of the Cork senior hurling team.

THE odds on Tracey Kennedy becoming the first vice-chair of Cork GAA shortened last night with confirmation that her main rival for the position has withdrawn from the race.

Cork GAA chiefs do not expect private security firms to be engaged for future Munster senior football and hurling finals.

Cork chairman Bob Ryan expressed his delight that Páirc Uí Chaoimh will bow out by staging the county’s Munster SHC final against Limerick on July 13.

PJ Cooney and Davey Fitzgerald had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship during a weekend packed with championship scores in all grades.

Two batches of frozen cooked mussels have had to be withdrawn from supermarket sale after they were linked to reports of illnesses, including diarrhoea.

Cork City Ballet’s artistic director, Alan Foley, recently announced a long-cherished ambition: a full-time dance college opening in Sept 2014.

THE READING LESSON Richard Murphy

Poems 1952-2012

Versatility in the performing arts is essential in the current economic climate, says Chris Ahern, head of the performing arts department at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa (CSN) in Cork.

THE Lough Erne Declaration on tax, a 10-point plan that fits neatly onto an A4 page, falls short of what most economists and campaigners were hoping to see emerge from the hyped group of eight meeting in a bankrupt hotel in Northern Ireland this week.

While Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton has insisted that the Irish tax regime is transparent, tax campaigners accused Ireland of being a ‘doormat’ state while academics claimed that up to 150,000 jobs could be jeopardised by Apple’s tax practices.

Gary Daly kept his championship ambitions alive with a good last shot win over Christy Mullins in Pool C of the Munster senior championship at Shannonvale.

David Murphy continued his march to the Munster senior championship quarter-final with a bowl-of-odds win over Nicholas Carey at Templemichael on Sunday.

Donal Riordan and William O’Driscoll had good wins in the Munster intermediate championship, beating brothers Anthony and Noel Gould respectively.