Two people have been killed and a boy is being treated for serious injuries after three separate crashes over the last 24 hours.

A Night at the Dogs at Curraheen Park on Saturday, May 20th is just one of the major fundraising efforts to help towards the costs of the €18.5 million redevelopment of one of Mallow’s most beloved nursing homes, Nazareth House in Dromahane.

There were some outstanding performances at yesterday’s well-attended Muskerry Hunt point-to-point fixture at Curraheen and the Declan Queally-trained/ridden Rocky’s Treasure hinted that a bright track career lies in wait by making a stylish winning debut in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

For the first time, an Irish woman will participate next month in Miss Pin Up International, a pageant that celebrates curvy woman, writes Louise Mc Carthy

At midnight on Thursday, while most of Cork was tucked up in bed, bright flashes of light were turning the sky overhead blue.

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Recognition of their relatives’ role was warmly welcomed by families of Cork’s Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan members in 1916 and the War of Independence.

A motorist who asked another driver to move along from a petrol pump in a busy garage was punched in the face and knocked unconscious, a garda said yesterday.

The Cork Rokk Choir brings back the best of the 60’s to Fitzgerald’s Park. 

The ‘Shark’ Hanlon-trained Luska Lad rolled back the years by destroying the opposition in the four-mile open at the opening session of the Kinsale point-to-point festival at a wet Farrangalway on Saturday evening.

The Pat Doyle-trained Six Gun Serenade gave ample indication that a bright track career lies in wait by winning the four-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s well-attended Killeady Harriers point-to-point at Ballyarthur outside Fermoy.

Crrigeen Acebo is providing the Lalor family from outside Clonmel with some tremendous sport this season and the seven-year-old recorded her fifth consecutive point-to-point success of the campaign by winning a thrilling mares’ open at yesterday’s Cloyne Harriers meeting at Dromahane.

Eala Beag seems to be improving with practically every run.

Gardaí are investigating the suspicious death of a 36-year-old man in North Cork.

What a impressive track.

Point-To-Point: Eventful. That’s the only way to accurately describe the open lightweight race at yesterday’s Dungarvan Farmers point-to-point at Kilossera in which owner/trainer Padraig Higgins’ Gentle Cloud continued his meteoric rise up through the ranks by beating Glenwood Knight.

In-form handler Michael Winters must have felt like Bill Murray’s character in the widely-acclaimed film Groundhog Day at yesterday’s well-attended Killeagh Harriers point-to-point meeting as, for the second Sunday running, he struck with a hugely-exciting newcomer that had many of those present searching for previously unused superlatives.

I was surprised yesterday when discovering that the BHA has decided to hold a somewhat belated inquiry into Aidan Coleman’s use of the whip when winning the Welsh Grand National at Chepstow aboard Emperor’s Choice.

The Liam Burke-trained newcomer Nambour lit up yesterday’s well attended but bitterly cold Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point meeting at Dromahane by destroying the opposition in the second division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

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Point-To-Point: "Once a good horse, always a good horse".

Valseur Lido can make a successful debut over fences in the Gain Supporting Laois Beginners Chase at Punchestown this afternoon.