Because this seems to be a week (or two) of Peak Hurling, I thought it might be the ideal time to use the game in order to reenact a great old George Plimpton piece.

Eddie Jones was the one Australian everyone wanted to hear from after Ireland dispensed with his England side so seamlessly at Twickenham last week, but it would have been interesting to mine the thoughts of his compatriot Michael Cheika, who was among the 82,062 souls looking on from the stands, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, says bourgeois liberal bleatings have long overlooked the attacks on the living conditions of working-class people

Dublin’s TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football winner Noelle Healy received the Croke Park Hotel Player of the Month award for September yesterday. And she hopes to add to her awards collection at tonight’s TG4 All Stars ceremony, writes Jackie Cahill

Never fear, Netflix is here!

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages...

Ask Audrey has been sorting out the people of Cork for years.

Cork actor Aidan O’Hare won’t be just rooting for his Jackie co-star on Sunday, says Esther McCarthy.

Kyran Fitzgerald says that rather than drain the swamp as he promised in his election campaign, Donald Trump will actually bring more alligators with him next month.

Suzanne Harrington says the nightmare of US housing is starting to resonate here too

For the 50th anniversary of short-writer, Frank O’Connor’s death, his son is donating private correspondence to UCC, writes Colette Sheridan

“He was a wonderful football manager and, often, a great football man. But he could be deeply unpleasant, Fergie.” 

The trial of Aisling Brady McCarthy, the Irish nanny accused of murdering a baby, will take place in October, it emerged following a hearing yesterday.

A chance encounter between a 13-year-old boy and the Humans of New York photographer has changed one Brooklyn school for the better.

You were meant to be reading an article that began: “My teenage boys are sleeping upstairs. Any minute now, they’ll be down to raid the fridge and go on the internet. This is what our teachers are doing to our children, blah, blah, blah.”

Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, has died.

It is too early, yet, to think about the literary meaning of the unexpected passing of poet Seamus Heaney nearly a year ago says Thomas McCarthy.

ENGLAND: An overly-handsome waiter, a snoring girlfriend, and the sea being too blue are among some of the bizarre complaints made to hotel staff, according to a survey.

Hedge fund mogul David Tepper had a case of deja vu when he ranked as the best paid hedge fund manager for the second year running by earning $3.5bn (€2.5bn) in 2013 with a savvy bet on airline stocks.

Hang on…Helen Mirren twerks in her bedroom?!

Musicians and campaigners are among those who have paid tribute to the folk music giant and activist Pete Seeger who has died at the age of 94.

It is the best way to get a feel for the tennis these days; watching, and typing, with a broken finger.

For US diplomat Richard Haass has launched a new bid to end the deadlock and reach agreement with all sides in Northern Ireland over flags, disputed parades and the past.

Four buildings at Harvard University in Massachusetts have been evacuated after unconfirmed reports of explosives on the campus.

Jon Cunliffe, a civil servant who is due to join the Bank of England as deputy governor for financial stability next month, said the housing market is not in a bubble as prices are rising from historically low levels.

A Pakistani teenager who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban has been honoured as Harvard University’s humanitarian of the year.

Dolly the cloned sheep and the groundbreaking possibilities offered by human embryonic stem cells were what propelled a Corkman into an area of science that yesterday saw him presented with a hall of fame award at his alma mater.

A global credit card payment service founded by two young Irish millionaire brothers is to be made available to Irish firms from today.

MY next-door neighbour has Pomeranians.

A Cork-based friend of Alex Ferguson has revealed he will be making attempts to encourage him to visit the city.

WITH influences as diverse as Séamus Heaney and David Bowie, African American poet, Tracy K Smith, will enthral audiences at the Cork World Book Fest, which runs at Triskel Christchurch from Apr 23-27.

No explosives were found at the home of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects last night after a day that saw the city shut down.

Facebook will reveal its “new home on Android” today at an event where the American company is widely expected to unveil a homescreen for smartphones.

Facebook will reveal its “new home on Android” tomorrow at an event where the American company is widely expected to unveil a homescreen for smartphones.

The family of a dead Dutch programmer is taking Facebook to court, claiming the social network giant has stolen its famous ‘like’ button.

Every aspiring scientist dreams of some day making a discovery so illustrious that it lands them a spot on the stage of the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

If this was an All-Ireland, both Tipperary and Cork would each be celebrating three-in-a-row right now.

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz shed 450,000 shares of Facebook in the past few days for proceeds of about US$9m (€7.25m) - a tiny chunk of his total stake.

The taxpayer has had to foot a €250,000 bill for sending top local government officials on a management course at Harvard University.

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to “married”.

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married".

Enda Kenny expects to dispatch a number of ministers to China in the coming months in a bid to win key trade contracts.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny begins a three-day visit to the US today, the setpiece of which will be a speech to Harvard about the Irish economy and political leadership.