Hopes were fading tonight for the safe return of five men missing after a trawler sank off the west Cork coast.

It really has been the most amazing start to the greyhound year. First we had the freeze-up and no racing at Shelbourne Park and other venues for a full month. Now we have the situation that because of many of our leading dogs lack full fitness, a prestigious event such as the Joe Dunne Memorial Puppy Stake has had to be put back a week in order to attract sufficient entries.

NOVEMBER, Friday 13, 2009, might have gone down as a fateful, black day in west Cork – but developer John Fleming bucked the ominous nature of the date when the High Court approved a rescue plan for his troubled companies.

EXPOSURE? It is a long way from the exposed West Cork coastline and the scenic Seven Heads to money-mill windfarms in the mid-west of the United States of America, but that’s just one of the journeys taken by John Fleming.

THE 13-year-old girl who drowned off Inchydoney Beach at the weekend could have been saved if a lifeguard service was in operation, it has been claimed.

A new painless way of paying a house purchase deposit, called an Exchange Bond is a feature being introduced by builders Fleming Construction.

A leaving certificate student who killed a Croom man after night out drinking a cocktail of beer and vodka has been sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter.

VERY competitive pricing, and a high-specification, mark out the Fleming Construction homes launched today in Cobh, Co Cork.

A PROPOSED €1 billion housing development, the largest ever planned for outside of Dublin, has passed its first hurdle with tentative approval from a local authority.

LOVE it or loathe it, the game and business of golf exerts a moneyed influence on the places it lands.