Thousands of homes and businesses across the country remain without power and thousands more are without water as the cleanup operation after Storm Ophelia continues.

It would have been a “travesty” had Alan O’Connor finished his Cork football career without an All-Ireland medal, according to former manager Conor Counihan.

For Alan O’Connor, the fire burns as strong as it ever did.

Just a mile or two of scenic road, or stretch of river, separate two property sale arrivals this month near Bantry, West Cork.

Paul Buckley bowled brilliantly at Newcestown to beat Kieran Murphy by over two bowls in the Munster intermediate championship quarter-final. 

SEÁN O’Hegarty had charge of 30 Volunteers who marched from different directions to Kealkill, where the plan had been to take control of the local Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) barracks.

Michael Bohane will play Raymond Ryan in next Sunday’s Munster Intermediate final at Lyre.

THE chatter of rock-breakers have long since replaced the hoarse cries of corncrakes in marginal farming areas of Ireland, writes Damien Enright

The first barometer of the 2015 bowling season will be played out at the three-day Ból-Fada festival at Keady-Tassagh in Armagh over the weekend.

Raymond Ryan was the pick of the weekend Munster Intermediate championship winners after beating Denis O’Driscoll by almost three bowls at the Marsh Road.

Nicholas Carey gave a record breaking performance at Clashmore where he beat Willie O’Donovan by almost three bowls of odds in the Munster Intermediate championship.

Patrick O’Donoghue just edged PJ Cooney in the last shot of their Munster intermediate championship clash at Templemichael on Saturday. 

Gavin Twohig closed with 10 brilliant bowls to beat David Hubbard in the last shot of the Rosscarbery final. 

Vincent Kiely’s win in the Tim White Cup final at Rosscarbery was the highlight of a weekend in which North Cork bowlers took four big victories. 

Martin Coppinger beat Thomas Mackle by a bowl in the semi-final of the Kealkill Cup.

Two separate investigations have been launched after a 37-year-old father of two died in a farm accident in West Cork.

David Murphy has his Munster senior championship campaign back on track after a last-shot win over John Creedon at Kealkill.

Four pilgrimage trails are to be opened in Munster in an attempt to lure Irish people away from the trek along the Camino of St James in Spain and generate money for our rural communities.

PADDY’S DAY is a great time to meet up with the friends and have a good bit of fun.

The mayor of San Francisco Edwin Mah Lee served as grand marshal at the Cork St Patrick’s Day parade yesterday, making his first return visit to Leeside, having initially toured the city in 1969 as a high school student.

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Brian Wilmot made a successful start to his senior championship career when he beat Patrick O’Donoghue in their Pool C tie at Gortroe.

Aidan Murphy had the first win of the 2012 Munster senior championship when he beat Martin Coppinger in the last shot at Baile Mhuirne in Pool A on Saturday.

THE Bantry-based Westlodge Hotel Fastnet Rally brings the Dunlop National Rally Championship to a fitting finale on Sunday with a cracking entry featuring no fewer than seven World Rally Cars in a quality line-up.

A man and woman were arrested today after 5kg (11lb) of herbal cannabis and plants were seized on a farm

JOHN O’ROURKE won the John Cronin Cup at Cloyne on Sunday where he beat Gary Daly and Ger Fitzpatrick.