Coláiste Choilm Ballincollig and Hamilton High School Bandon have secured their places in the quarter-finals of the Corn Uí Mhuirí with a round to spare.

Everyone knows there’s no chance of the Government reaching its target that such cars should make up 10% of all vehicles.

As we move towards autumn, people everywhere are remarking how magnificent trees look this year.

Mountmellick driver Anthony Culleton (Semog Buggy) extended his lead in the 5 Star Catering National Loose Surface Autocross Championship with an impressive victory in yesterday’s Skibbereen and District Car Club’s Loose Surface Autocross at Derryleigh.

Michael Bohane is Munster Intermediate champion following a commanding win over Paul Buckley at Baile Bhuirne on Sunday.

The ESB is preparing to start a €1.2bn national roll-out of smart meters to businesses and households, beginning in parts of Cork and the greater Portlaoise area.

Has the time come for a levy on take-away coffee cups?

It will come as no surprise I’m sure, when I announce here today that I have the definitive itinerary regarding the trip of Donald Trump to Ireland.

What’s the Irish for clasico? An clasaiceach, says Google.

Members of a Cork family devastated by suicide are helping to bring the first-ever Darkness Into Light (DIL) walk to a Gaeltacht community.

Derry’s Marty McCormack (Skoda Fabia R5) heads up the entry for Sunday’s Treaty Plant Hire Limerick Forest Rally, the second round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages.

Residents of the Gaeltacht in west Cork were placed at risk of consuming inadequately disinfected water over an extended period last year, a report by an environmental watchdog reveals.

Archaeologist Enda Flaherty has been documenting abandoned schoolhouses, thus providing a snapshot of those forgotten places where many of our predecessors were taught, says Dan MacCarthy.

Talent and housing shortages and transport congestion must be resolved if the region is to continue to attract investment, says James Winters.

Glengarriff will reverberate to the melody of the uilleann pipes for four days this week as the whole town becomes a trad music venue for the annual Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipes and Trad Festival.

Cork County Council is to seek tenders for the construction of the €100m Macroom bypass in mid-July.

Although four crews were within a two-second time frame after the opening stage of the Abbey Hotel Munster Moonraker Forest Rally in Ballyvourney, (round three of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship), all changed a stage later as Derry’s Marty McCormack and his Mallow co-driver David Moynihan powered their Tiger Risk Partners Skoda Fabia R5 into a 28.9 second lead which laid the foundation for overall victory.

The upsurge in Irish Forest rallying continues as over 80 crews line up for tomorrow’s Abbey Hotel Munster Moonraker Rally in Ballyvourney.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) has unveiled a €20m flood relief plan which will protect around 90 homes and businesses in two adjoining villages in mid-Cork.

A woman with 151 previous convictions has been jailed for five months after she stole €900 from a “shy, introverted” man she had befriended on a bus.

Tommy Barker says this is a one-off Macroom home and homestead that’ll be hard to bypass. Be smart, check out the smart home.

Its diminishing population over the past 40 years has made the plight of the hen harrier a pressing issue, writes Denis Lehane.

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

Archaeologists have discovered 30 previously unknown ancient sites along the proposed Macroom bypass route, including a Bronze Age ring fort.

Contractors have fenced off almost half the entire route of a long-awaited €160m bypass of one of Cork’s worst bottlenecks.

A man who was seriously injured in the two-vehicle collision just after 8am has been rushed to Cork University Hospital (CUH).

Some schools are shying away from inviting mental health professionals to talk to their pupils about suicide because of a fear that talking about it will increase the risk.

 

Rallying across the three Irish championships is a rare feat but one Monaghan’s Sam Moffett is accomplishing.

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When John Dolan attended an outing with Muskerry Vintage Car Club, he was struck by the number of members driving classic Fords.

From baby food to breweries, and steaks to sushi, small local producers are gaining support by producing quality goods. On the second day of the two-part series, Grainne McGuinness talks to some more local food heroes that have tasted success at home and abroad, but continue to work hard to grow their businesses

That the Cork footballers start 2017 as a second-tier county is moot. Trust is thin on the ground and it’s a long road back to a point where Rebel supporters will back their footballers, something manager Peadar Healy accepts and understands. There are no excuses next season, he says. The answers must come from within.

The long-awaited Macroom to Ballyvourney bypass is “near shovel ready” and yellow jackets will be on the road in January, Fine Gael TD, Brendan Griffin, told councillors at a meeting in Tralee.

The Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final line-up will begin to take shape after this afternoon’s full programme of games.