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A look ahead to all the weekend’s action around Cork...

A last-gasp Paul Murray point pinched victory for Cappoquin over local rivals Lismore at Ballyduff last night (2-16 to 2-15). It represented an amazing turnaround for Ger Manley’s men after their 23-point defeat to Mount Sion last weekend.

The make-up of a review team to examine at least 12 cases of questionable care of newborns at Portiuncula Hospital which left some babies dead and others brain damaged has been announced.

Two technology companies are to create 160 jobs over the coming years as they set up their first Irish bases.

Sixteen acres of land, some interesting history and a scenic location in one of Kerry’s best known tourist spots should make Askive House in Parknasilla very attractive to foreign buyers.

Size: 450 (4,850 sq ft)

The manager of a Marks & Spencer food store has denied claims by a former employee that staff were being given impossible deadlines by which to check food expiry dates.

Rare land, house, bog, commonage and island sale in Kerry’s Derrynane harbour will stir interest.

It’s 2001 and Carrickmore are out on St Colmcille’s Park about to train ahead of their county final replay against Errigal Ciarán.

Both Mullingar clubs, St Loman’s and Mullingar Shamrocks, have qualified for the Westmeath SFC semi-finals.

A former sales adviser in the food section in the Killarney branch of Marks and Spencer Ireland says he was unfairly dismissed.

Mullingar Shamrocks 0-12 Garrycastle 1-08

Urhan 2-7 Garnish 2-6

Around 250 jobs are set to be generated by a proposed €85 million green energy plant for Shannon.

PROPOSALS to build an €85 million power plant in Shannon, Co Clare, has received a favourable response in the region since a presentation to local councillors.

PROPOSALS to construct an €85 million power plant in Shannon — which could see the creation of hundreds of jobs — have received a favourable response from councillors in the town.

A COMPANY seeking to build an €85 million power plant which could create hundreds of jobs will pitch its plans to public representatives in Clare this week.

A 94-acre farm at Meelin, Newmarket, Co Cork, is a new private treaty sale by auctioneer Sean Daly.

HURLING fans are expected to turn out in huge numbers in Portlaw on Sunday evening when Waterford and Kilkenny renew rivalry in a tournament game for a very special and deserving cause.

A MASTER class in free-taking from Dave Bennett saw Lismore safely to victory in an exciting Waterford Senior Hurling Championship opener at Cappoquin on Saturday.

THE RACE to dislodge Ballygunner as Waterford senior hurling champions begins this weekend with four very attractive first round games.

Most of the country's health boards have yet to appoint case officers to deal with the 20,000 elderly people believed to be victims of abuse, writes Pat Brosnan.

A mentally ill man who killed his uncle because he believed he was possessed by the devil was found guilty but insane at the Central Criminal Court today.

A 51-year-old Clare man has pleaded guilty but insane at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of his 82-year-old uncle.

BED numbers are expected to be increased at a Dublin maternity hospital next year so they can help mothers-to-be who can’t be treated at Holles Street because of its planned cap on numbers.

Newtownshandrum 3-12 Erin's Own 0-14

CORK, Munster and All-Ireland Club hurling champions Newtownshandrum are in real danger of being stripped of their titles tonight as the face Erin’s Own in round three of the Permanent tsb county championship at Pairc Uí Chaoimh (7.30pm).

GRITTY Erins Own held on to edge out UCC 1-8 to 0-9 in a hard-fought permanent tsb Cork County SHC contest at Pairc Ui Rinn last night with Sean Daly’s goal in the 22nd minute the decisive score.

THE master of the Coombe Women’s Hospital has made a fresh appeal to the mother of the baby boy found abandoned in Dublin city at the weekend to come forward.

A record number of babies were born in the Coombe Women's Hospital last year, with 7,848 babies being delivered.

Mount Sion 4-15 Lismore 2-8

A 29-year-old man has been jailed for ten years and eleven months for the manslaughter of his uncle whose body was discovered on the family farm in Kerry in 1996.

THE master of the country’s largest maternity hospital has called on the Government to fortify food with folic acid to reduce the number of babies born with spina bifida.

A leading health specialist has called on the Government to fortify foods with folic acid.

VIEWS, views and more views are the thing here — after all, in a county with more than enough renovated farmhouses, location becomes even more important.

A retired psychiatric nurse told a jury today that a Kerry man accused of murdering his uncle was admitted to hospital for psychiatric treatment after the killing.