Sorting out Cork people for ages

The was a sense of foreboding around Cheltenham ahead of the opening race on day three of the Festival, those present waiting on news as to whether there would by a day four, writes Darren Norris

The O’Donovan rowers began it at the Rio Olympics four years ago. After that, it seemed anything the oarsmen and women of West Cork achieved, so, too, could the young rugby players of the region.

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John Murray, 39, of Derragh, Dunmanway, Co Cork, was arraigned at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where he pleaded guilty to damaging the station, threatening to kill Garda Heather Chandler, and dangerous driving.

It is hard to believe today but the former island of Ringarogy in West Cork was once home to around 800 people.

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A Cork student is preparing to pack down alongside a former Australia captain and South African international in the biggest match of his life.

A specialist Garda unit investigating sex crimes is not expected to be able to take on new cases until at least next March because it still is not properly staffed.

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Sorting out Cork people for ages

Sorting out Cork people for ages...

A substantial farm has just come on the market in West Cork with Dunmanway-based auctioneers Daniel Lehane & Co.

Sewage from the equivalent of 77,000 people in 36 towns and villages is released into the environment every day without treatment.

New to the market, a 55-acre west Cork residential farm offers plenty of potential in an exceptionally convenient location on the edge of Dunmanway town.

The gallant art has always been surrounded with a halo of singular glamour, Nabokov once said, adding: “Aloof, solitary, impassive, the crack goalie is followed in the streets by entranced little boys.”

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A man has pleaded guilty to a string of offences including criminal damage to a garda station and dangerous driving in two high-speed pursuits across country roads where he drove as fast as 180km/h.

When local artist Maura O’Connell of West Cork Casting Studio was commissioned to prepare specially-moulded hand casts for none other than Cork GAA legend, Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, and rising Cork GAA star, Melissa Duggan, she couldn’t wait to get stuck in.

Not that Paul O’Donovan is suffering déjà vu, but he feels the same quiet confidence about his Nemo Rangers side going into today’s quarter-final with champions St Finbarr’s as he did 12 months ago.

Two Cork paramedics who battled through Storm Ophelia to save the life of an elderly woman on a remote farm, clearing roads of trees and fallen branches with crowbars and hacksaws as they struggled to reach her, are to be presented with National Bravery Awards.

Bantry Blues and Bandon will have to do it all over again following an entertaining Cork PIFC quarter-final in Dunmanway yesterday afternoon.

A woman who rammed her boyfriend’s car and also produced a scissors in the course of a domestic dispute has been fined €500.

A new unit manned by specially trained gardaí to investigate sexual crimes and domestic violence is to be established in the West Cork region.

A bus passenger who assaulted an inspector on a bus from West Cork was ordered to do 60 hours of community service for another offence today.

Tommy Barker, property editor, assesses the appetite for property in West Cork

Bride and groom Aoife O’Callaghan and Finbarr McCarthy returned to the scene of their first encounter — and first date — on their big day.

Reggie Jnr came home yesterday morning with his Leaving Cert Results and without giving anything away about the hopeless thicko