Kevin Sharkey is hoping to be a candidate in the upcoming presidential election.

Sligo Rovers 0 Cork City 2

Goals early and late saw champions Cork City move back to the top of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division table as they saw off Sligo Rovers at the Showgrounds.

Graham Cummins scored a hat-trick as Cork City to make it three wins from three in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division, seeing off Sligo Rovers at the Showgrounds on Monday night.

"He stole a piece of my soul and today I'm here to reclaim it."

Julie Sharkey stars in the Everyman’s production of Dancing at Lughnasa, writes Colette Sheridan

Struggling Sligo Rovers picked up a massive result in front of their home fans when beating high-flying Shamrock Rovers 1-0 in a fiery contest – a win that takes the Bit O’Red out of the relegation places and up to eighth place in the top flight standings.

A Kerry man has been awarded damages in the Circuit Civil Court against well-known artist Kevin Sharkey over “highly defamatory” comments he wrote on his Twitter account.

A woman jogging on a sunny Sunday morning in East Cork was killed when she was struck by a car. Yesterday the family of the deceased said it prayed the elderly motorist would find peace.

Derry City 0 Dundalk 2: Dundalk took full advantage of Cork City’s shock slip-up when boosting their back-to-back title hopes with a win at the Brandywell.

Dundalk 1 Derry City 0: John Mountney kept Dundalk’s 100% home record intact with a scrappy late winner to break Derry City’s resistence at Oriel Park last night.

A young heroin addict who held a syringe to his father’s neck in Youghal and threatened to infect him and kill him was yesterday given a three-year jail sentence with the last year suspended.

Derry City 0 Shamrock Rovers 0: Keith Fahey may have blotted his copybook at the Brandywell last night having been sent off, but Shamrock Rovers will not be too unhappy with their former international as they took a point in Derry.

An Irish dance teacher has been ordered to pay a woman he was accused of sexually assaulting €500 per month as part of a damages claim.

The animation industry is in rude health globally and especially in Ireland with Cartoon Saloon up for an Oscar next week. Ed Power asks some well known faces what cartoons they lived for as kids.

Irish Illustrator Niamh Sharkey’s cute character is more popular than ever, writes Ed Power

A judge has ordered an Irish dance teacher to hand over his bank records after hearing he still hasn’t paid any of a €400,000 High Court compensation order to a victim he sexually abused.

"You don't have to give up the career to have kids" is the message from graduate Jacci Sharkey.

The bizarre and the brilliant were showcasing their abilities in Cork this weekend with two festivals giving centre stage to those ordinarily on the fringes of the entertainment industry.

A man convicted of having images of child pornography on his computer has failed in a bid to keep his identity secret.

A Kerryman has obtained a temporary court order directing artist Kevin Sharkey to remove an allegedly "highly defamatory" comment he wrote on his Twitter account.

All Paddy McConigley can recall was the pain. Searing. Raging. Blinding? Yes, sadly. The most excruciating experience he has ever endured.

Illustrator’s book for children, I’m a Happy Hugglwug, has been adapted into an animated TV series for Disney, says Pádraic Killeen

A TWICE-OSCAR nominated Irish animation company is recruiting more than 40 new staff following a major Disney Junior contract.

PADDY KEENAN turned in an all-star performance to earn St Patrick’s a draw in a dull Louth SFC final at Drogheda yesterday.

A 24-year-old Meath woman will be sentenced next week for helping a killer dispose of the body of a man he had just killed in her home and for cleaning up the crime scene.

DUE to the adverse weather forecast for the weekend, with ground frosts predicted for both today and tomorrow, Horse Racing Ireland has agreed to a request from Fairyhouse Racecourse to transfer its fixture tomorrow to Thursday, December 2.

A 27-year-old drug addict has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the manslaughter of a drug dealer whose body was found in the boot of a car after he was stabbed to death following a row over drugs.

A drug addict who killed a 28-year-old drug dealer in a botched robbery will be sentenced for his manslaughter later this month.

A man accused of murdering a 28-year-old whose body was found in the boot of his own car in an isolated Dublin laneway, has been cleared of the murder but has been found guilty of manslaughter.

The jury in the case of a man on trial for murdering a 28-year-old whose body was found in the boot of his own car, will resume its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow morning.

A man on trial for murder has told the jury in his case that he started smoking heroin after the death of his baby girl, and was addicted to the drug when he killed 28-year-old David Sharkey.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a 27-year-old man on trial for murder confessed to gardaí that he stabbed a father of one, “stuck” his body in a boot, and was intending on burning the car at a halting site, when he noticed gardaí and ran away.

The father of a man on trial for murdering another man whose body was discovered in the boot of his own car, has told the Central Criminal Court that his son rang him asking for a lift on the night of the killing.

The partner of a man whose body was found in the boot of his own car has told his killer's murder trial of his alleged killer that she became concerned for her boyfriend's safety after another man answered his mobile phone.

A 27-year-old man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of murdering another man whose blood-covered body was found in the boot of a car in a north Dublin laneway last year.

A 27-year-old man is due to go on trial at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow for the murder of a man who's body was discovered in a laneway in north Dublin last year.

Nick Clegg went on the offensive today, accusing David Cameron and Gordon Brown of attempting to “frighten” British voters away from voting Liberal Democrat.

Action on a global scale must be taken to curb the development of military killer robots that think for themselves, a leading British expert said today.

A man was remanded in custody today charged with the murder of a man found dead in the boot of a crashed car.

Gardaí have named the young man found dead in the boot of a car in the Finglas area of Dublin on Sunday night.

One of Ireland’s top diplomats who opened the first Irish embassy in Moscow during the Cold War is standing down after decades representing the country around the world, he revealed today.