Dan O’Halloran edged out John Shorten in the last shot of the Ballinacurra final, with Cian Boyle a bowl off the pace in third.

HUSBAND and wife Justin and Jenny Green run Ballyvolane House, in Castlelyons, Co Cork. The mansion and former dairy farm, which was built in 1728, is where Justin grew up. Raised to Scottish parents in Hong Kong, Jenny met fellow hotelier Justin while working in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Having worked in the UK and Bali, they returned to manage Ballyvolane House, as an Irish country house, in 2004.

At a meeting in County Hall, many of the 55 councillors gave examples of problems in their various areas. They have decided to write a “strongly-worded” email to John Halligan, junior minister at the Department of Education & Skills, urging him to get more and bigger buses to solve the issue.

It's somewhat ironic the Naval Service's commander spends most of his days on Haulbowline Island, just a stone's throw from Spike Island where three of his granduncles were interned in 1921 – and a fact he only found out two years ago.

Five restaurants in Cork have picked up awards at the 2019 Irish Restaurant Awards, which honoured the best of Ireland’s culinary talent at a ceremony in Dublin.

A monument to 1916 leader Thomas Kent, which has been obstructed by an electronic pay station at Cork’s main railway station named in his honour, may have to be relocated.

Donal O’Keeffe tells the story of the mobile library service which brings a sense of community and joy to people of all ages.

A community plans to honour a defiant former parish priest whose eviction from the parochial house in the late 1800s helped inspire the Land League movement in Cork.

Peter Dowdall kicks off this year's Open Gardens for Marymount trail with a visit to a Carrignavar stunner

A 43-year-old woman sat beside a widower twice her age on a bench at a graveyard and later called to his house blackmailing him to pay her €200 every fortnight claiming he had kissed her.

Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a wind farm in east Cork for the second time in two years.

A collision yesterday on the main Dublin-Cork route was the third fatal incident in the last three years to involve an elderly motorist driving the wrong way on motorways in Cork.

A rural community in north-east Cork faces serious traffic disruption if an invasive plant, spreading throughout the county like wildfire, has caused structural damage to a road bridge.

Thomas Kent was the only 1916 revolutionary to be executed outside Dublin. Historian Meda Ryan tells how one family in the South made a stand for land and freedom

The operators of the 3Arena are among appellants in relation to recent permission for increased audience capacity for concerts at the Citywest centre in south Dublin.

The archaeological and forensic detective work used to locate and identify the remains of executed 1916 rebel Thomas Kent’s remains will be explained in Cork this week.

The installation of a large electronic pay meter in front of a monument to 1916 leader Thomas Kent has been branded “an affront to his memory”.

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A monument to be erected next month honouring Thomas Kent will feature a code which can be scanned by smartphone to provide access to a website dedicated to information about the patriot and the 1916 Rising.

A €6.5m solar farm, part of an independent power company’s plans for 11 such projects in Co Cork, has been refused planning permission.

Today, April 7

A further sample of what was making the columns of the Cork Examiner 100 years ago this week

Paul Bradford admits it’s going to be an uphill battle for the fledgling party, writes Sean O’Riordan

Michael Clifford offers up an alphabetical look at 2015. 

Nobody knows Irish food better than Joe McNamee. From chutney to cheese, craft beer to chocolate, he’s put together The Menu’s Annual Christmas Hamper – full of the local products that really stood out this year. Plus, he’s got the top gifts for foodies.

Fermoy 1-8 Glanworth 0-6: Fermoy could afford the luxury of a missed first-half penalty and still finish comfortable winners over Glanworth in Saturday’s Cork IFC semi-final at Castlelyons.

A major series of commemorations are planned next year to mark the centenary of Thomas Kent’s execution, which include creating a monument and museum in his honour as well as a period costume re-enactment of his arrest and trial.

The final journey of 1916 rebel Thomas Kent will begin this evening when his remains lie in State close to where he lay buried in a prison yard for nearly a century.

Gardaí are advising people to arrive in the village of Castlelyons, Co Cork, before 1pm on Friday if they want to attend Thomas Kent’s State funeral.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will deliver a graveside oration at the state funeral of Thomas Kent in the Co Cork village of Castlelyons on Friday.

The State funeral of executed 1916 rebel Thomas Kent will be shown live on RTÉ TV later this month but the public can pay their respects, on the evening before, just yards from his resting place of the last 99 years.

Tears welled in the eyes of Thomas Kent’s three elderly nieces as they were told DNA tests confirmed remains found in Cork prison were those of the patriot executed by the British in 1916.

The Government has confirmed the remains exhumed at Cork Prison last June were those of Republican Thomas Kent, who was executed in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, clearing the way for a State funeral.

One of the largest bridges over the River Blackwater in Co Cork is set to be renamed after the only man executed outside of Dublin following the 1916 Rising.

This year’s Blarney in Bloom Summer Garden Fair promises to be bigger and better than ever. 

John A Murphy is not quite correct in his letter (Irish Examiner, June 26) about Thomas Kent.