A woman who refused to give a breath sample to a garda on the side of the road jumped into the back of her van and began to eat cheese and homemade pesto.

A major wind farm straddling the uplands of the Cork-Kerry border, across 32 townlands, has been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála.

Jack was found in a field on a wet night and weighted only 12lbs and stood 15in high. Jack is going forward to the Guinness book of records as the smallest calf in the world

An ESB subsidiary has lodged an application for a windfarm spanning more than 30 townlands across Cork and Kerry.

In 1994, two women raised what was then a phenomenal £360 for a Daffodil Day coffee morning.

The Acesigns Cork 20 International Rally, the final round of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship, resulted in a record-breaking four-in-a-row victory for Midleton’s Daragh O’Riordan and his Derry co-driver Tony McDaid (Ford Fiesta WRC).

Even though Donegal’s Declan Boyle secured enough points to land the Clonakilty Black Pudding Irish Tarmac Championship, he will contest the Acesigns Cork 20 International Rally, the final round of the series.

Harpists from the USA, Canada, and Italy will travel to Co Limerick for next week’s Harp Festival to commemorate the Brian Boru Millennium.

Three men and a lamb - comedy gold.

Three Irish farmers who have become internet sensations after a video of them celebrating the reopening of their local pub went viral are set to open one of the BBC’s top comedy quiz shows tonight.

Like the mythical phoenix rising from the ashes, a popular public house was back in business last night, having been rebuilt following a fire two years ago.

If you’ve ever wondered what the old men in those sepia photographs of rural early 20th century Ireland sounded like, you can now find out.

A well-known public house on the Cork-Kerry border, destroyed by fire last May, is to rise from the ashes.

Knee-high miracle calf Jack is very likely the smallest living calf in the world — so small his owner initially mistook him for a magpie.

Fire has destroyed the highest pub in Ireland, The Top of Coom, which is perched over the 1,000ft mark on the Kerry-Cork border.

I WAS a pupil at North Monastery CBS, Cork — a ‘Mon boy’ — from 1954 to 1964 and, like your columnist Matt Cooper (May 9), the Christian Brothers left their mark on me.

THE attack by former MEP Patricia McKenna on the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, when he addressed a National Forum on Europe meeting in Dublin recently, was disgraceful and highly offensive.

I AM currently touring Ireland in the rain.

DURING the removal of Charles Haughey’s remains on June 15, an RTÉ commentator had occasion to pronounce — or brutally mispronounce — some words in Irish.

THE award-winning film-maker, Ken Loach, is about to begin shooting his latest feature film, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, in a variety of locations around Cork and Kerry.

I WOULD just like to say a big thank you to U2 on behalf of the people of Cork and Munster in general.

A BIG new house close to the village of Glounthaune is on offer at €520,000 through auctioneer, Kevin O’Connell of Dan O’Connell and Co.

A JURY foreman yesterday called on the National Roads Authority (NRA) to study a stretch of the main Cork/Killarney road on which a senior Cork County Council official and her small daughter died.