Paul Buckley and Michael Bohane will contest next Sunday’s Munster intermediate final at Baile Bhuirne after both had surprisingly comfortable semi-final wins.

Former senior champion Pat Butler rolled back the years at Castletownkenneigh on Monday where he beat Donncha O’Brien with the last shot of a brilliant Munster Junior A championship tie.

James O’Donovan grabbed the limelight with two great wins in the busiest bowling week of 2018.

Rosaí McCarthy is flushed with the success of a new beekeeping co-operative in Ballyvourney, Cork

Munster Post Primary SAFC semi-final

Cathaoirleach Cuman Peile Naomh Abán Chathal O'Riada talks to videographer Dan Linehan about what’s happening this holiday weekend at the Comórtas Peile Na Gaeltachta in Baile Bhúirne.

Politics has always been a family matter for newly elected TD Aindrias Moynihan. Yesterday may have been his first day to take a seat in the Dáil as an elected representative for Cork North West, but he is certainly no stranger to Leinster House.

Ulster champion Thomas Mackle beat Christy Mullins on Sunday in the feature score of the benefit festival for the cancer unit at Cork University Hospital in Shannonvale.

The Munster senior championship will dominate bowling for the next few weeks, starting with both semi-finals at the weekend.

Michael Bohane will lead the Munster challenge at next weekend’s All-Ireland finals following his clear win over Raymond Ryan in Sunday’s intermediate final at Lyre.

Three weeks away from home at a Gaeltacht summer school was a rite of passage, writes Pet O’Connell

JOHN P Quinlan is from Macroom, and founded the Vangard Gallery in Cork in 1991. He is in the midst of a nine-month stint as guest curator at Triskel in Cork.

Dr O’Sullivan Cup

The preparations of St Francis College, Rochestown for Saturday’s Croke Cup (All-Ireland PPS SAHC) quarter-final clash with holders St Kieran’s College of Kilkenny haven’t been conventional, to say the least.

Coláiste Ghobnatán, Baile Bhúirne 2-14

The ancient tradition of ‘sean-nós’ singing has struck a chord with teenagers in Co Cork according to an expert in what was a dying art.

Garda whistleblower John Wilson will reiterate the need to reform the force today and outline his experiences raising malpractice against former colleagues during his address at a Sinn Féin summer school.

REBEL ÓG MONTHLY SPORTS AWARDS

A man whose wife and father-in-law were killed in an IRA bombing will be among a wide variety of speakers attending the year’s Sinn Féin summer school which gets under way in Co Cork this evening.

SATURDAY

THE son of one of Ireland’s greatest composers and musicians believes his father’s drinking was not the main reason for his death.

AIDAN MURPHY won a place in the Munster senior quarter-final when he beat Edmund Sexton by almost a bowl at Baile Bhuirne on Monday evening.

PROTECTED slugs which forced the redesign of a €200 million bypass are to be moved from certain areas along the route after An Bord Pleanála gave the road project the green light.

ONCE the new clover crop got going, replacing the artificial nitrogen, everything fell into place for farmer Noel Ó Loingsigh in Baile Bhúirne in Co Cork.

GROWING your own and local food are the topics of an event in Inchigeelagh, Co Cork, next Sunday at Creedon’s Hotel.

UNIONIST representatives will join other guest speakers, including hurling legend Donal Óg Cusack and musician Peadar O Riada, at a special forum to discuss building a better Ireland.