All-Ireland senior champions Charly Shanks (Armagh) and Catriona Casey (Cork) collected the respective Player of the Year awards at the GAA Handball All-Stars in Croke Park.

The Lord Mayor of Cork says the city owes a debt of gratitude to the chairman of the board of Cork Opera House, who is stepping down after helping to save the theatre from the brink of financial collapse.

There was late drama in the Cartell.ie Rally of the Lakes in Killarney, where Monaghan’s Sam Moffett (Fiesta R5) and his Bandon co-driver Karl Atkinson took victory after long-time leaders, Roy White and co-driver James O’Brien, clattered their Fiesta WRC against a chicane bale on SS 13 and limped to the stage finish before retiring.

Extra gardaí from all over the southern region will be drafted in to cover the Killarney Rally of the Lakes this weekend, including the Air Support Unit and Traffic Corps.

Cork racing driver Matt Griffin and his Clearwater Racing team-mates Mok Weng Sun and Keita Sawa claimed victory in the LMGTE Am category of ‘The 6 Hours of Silverstone’, the opening round of the World Endurance Championship at Silverstone yesterday.

John Borgonovo explores the political landscape in Cork in the years preceding the 1916 Rising

Cormac O’Keeffe visits the new Cork Prison which is due to open by the end of the year. With larger cells, a Visits Garden with a play area for children, among other facilities , it is hoped the new prison will offer a healthier environment for prisoners and their families than current conditions at the existing prison which have been widely condemned

Donegal’s Donagh Kelly (Ford Focus WRC), co-driven by Monaghan’s Conor Foley, coasted to v ictory in the Cartell.ie Rally of the Lakes in Killarney where they eased off on the closing stages to take the laurels. For Kelly, victory promoted him into the lead of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship.

The in-form Donagh Kelly (Ford Focus WRC) can take a major step towards annexing the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship on this weekend’s Cartell.ie Rally of the Lakes in Killarney. 

Consultants were paid just over €369,000 to oversee the process used to select the developers of Cork’s multi-million events centre.

The Inquiry is one of the gems from this year’s documentary strand at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival; although, technically, it’s a drama written from documentary evidence, as its screenplay is threaded with newspaper cuttings and British parliamentary reports.

Size matters when it comes to supporting the Cork hurlers.

Denise Welch's son Matthew Healy has snubbed her wedding to perform with his band ''The 1975'.

Former GAA president Seán Kelly believes the need to implement his proposal to change the structure of the All-Ireland senior football championship has intensified following the lopsided results in recent weeks.

A house with a cellar, steeped in Irish and horticultural history, is a summer seller in Cork.

Innovative students have developed a road safety board game that could help save lives.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy admits the association face a major challenge to prepare for the introduction of the black card in 2014 — but remains convinced it will be for the betterment of Gaelic football.

Football Review Committee chairman Eugene McGee admits the committee are looking for every vote as they cling to the faint hope Congress will back the black card motion against cynicism in Derry today.

Denise Welch's fiancé has had a suspected heart attack.

Dairygold Concerned Farmers Action Group is urging farmers not to sign the milk supply agreement (MSA), having failed to convince the co-op to adopt what it says is its more tax-efficient model.

Football Review Committee (FRC) member Tim Healy believes there is a lot of merit in former GAA president Seán Kelly’s All-Ireland SFC restructuring proposal.

Denise Welch likes to joke about the 15-year age gap with her new boyfriend.

A business lobby group is planning a major campaign to press the Government into fast-tracking its overhaul of the State’s commercial rates system.

Hundreds of people gathered to honour the life of blinded Pc David Rathband at a cathedral service in Britain today.

Denise Welch has alerted police after being urged to kill herself by Internet “trolls”.

Cork’s city manager announced a major restructuring last night, prompted by the retirement of almost one third of his senior officials.

Denise Welch fought back tears today as she revealed on live TV that she has separated from husband Tim Healy.

'Celebrity Big Brother' winner Denise Welch said today that despite some "mistakes", her children were unruffled by her flashing antics during her stint on the show.

Kevin McManamon, Bryan Cullen, Diarmuid Connolly and Sean Murray all scored goals as Dublin secured a Bord na Mona O'Byrne Cup semi-final berth thanks to a 4-14 to 0-12 win over UCD at Parnell Park last night.

RIGHT around the country, there are hundreds of people wondering whether or not to accept an offer to manage a club team or wondering just what the hell they’ve got themselves into when they said they would.

In the first of three articles on the history of the presidency, Ryle Dwyer highlights the early importance of the office. It was not the partition but the head of state issue that led to the Civil War.

NORTH Cork dairy farmers are broadly happy that they can meet the calving and production guidelines in Dairygold’s new milk pricing system, it emerged at an IFA-hosted meeting in Mallow last night.

'Loose Women' host and actress Denise Welch bowed out of 'Dancing on Ice' last night joking that she was “knackered” but had “the most wonderful time”.

Denise Welch has no intention of quitting ‘Dancing On Ice’.

Denise Welch believes her affair made her marriage stronger.

Denise Welch has confessed that she used to take cocaine on the set of ‘Coronation Street’.

Elton John was among the famous names who turned out to wish 'Billy Elliot' a happy fifth anniversary.

THERE has been talk about cutting the size of the Dáil and abolishing the Seanad, but nobody seems to have suggested abolishing the Presidency, which is the single most expensive office. How much could be save by abolishing it?