James O’Donovan added another significant win to his current run when he beat Killian Kingston by three bowls in the semi-final of the Paddy Barry Cup at Rosscarbery.

On Monday April 11. Cork County Council are holding the launch of the Cork Age Friendly County Strategy 2016-2021 at 10.30am in the Foyer of County Hall. 

The Seine is a 776 kilometre river which rises in North Eastern France and flows through Paris into the English Channel at Le Havre and is constantly dredged and kept clear for water activities.

It is not by chance that the migrant crisis might ease off, but a roaring certainty that it will increase rapidly throughout Europe, like a tsunami.

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.

Martin Toal had an unexpectedly easy win over Conor McGuigan in the quarter-final of the Ulster senior championship at Port Mór-Blackwatertown.

Today, we have 4,000 local authority houses lying empty, while the number of families on the waiting lists, and those who are homeless, grows.

I’m delighted to write to you, Santy, and warn you, as you head south, to bear in mind that in Ireland the clocks have been turned back 167 years.

Rural Ireland is being decimated by emigration.

What we have not been told is that the €240 per year water household charge will rapidly rise to €600/700 per annum when the Government stops providing €537m to Irish Water.

George Bernard Shaw said “Ireland is the only open-air asylum in Western Europe being run by the inmates”.

As the year 2014 begins with a new flicker of hope, we are being told that our country has allegedly won back its independence from the troika.

Aidan Murphy beat Thomas Mackle by close to a bowl in the Mick Barry Cup semi-final at Ballincurrig to secure his place in next month’s King of the Roads.

Martin Coppinger retained his Munster senior title when he beat Brian Wilmot by almost a bowl at Bauravilla on Sunday.

It appears that the animals that were starving in the want of a bale of fodder must now wait until the Government parties are fully geared up for the local elections of 2014 to get their next meal.

Castletownbere 0-12 Adrigole 0-6

Catriona O’Farrell-Kidney is All-Ireland senior champion for the first time since 2001 following a determined and focused finish that denied Kelly Mallon the three-in-a-row at Markethill Road in Tassagh.

Adrigole 1-14 Castletownbere 0-11

GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses as they continue their investigation into the tragic death of an eight-year-old boy from West Cork.

CASTLETOWNBERE cruised to a comfortable victory over local rivals Adrigole in this Cork IFC fourth round clash at Cahermore yesterday.

THE Murphy tide is on the rise again as brothers David and Aidan Murphy gave five-star displays in the Munster Senior Championship at the weekend.

A selection of starter homes from around the country

ONE hundred miles west of Cork city in beautiful Cahermore, two of Beara’s great rivals fought themselves to a standstill for the right to meet Kildorrery in the IFC semi-final.

A FAMILY grieved the loss of a son for a second time within two years following a double road traffic fatality in Co Cork at the weekend.

Two male teenagers have been killed following a road accident in West Cork.

TWELVE houses in the seaside village of Allihies in West Cork should be of interest to property investors.