A fascinating documentary features 12 modern-day volunteers who, reality TV-style, trained to emulate the men in the renowned flying columns of Ireland’s 1920s War of Independence.

A new history trail, The Cork Rebel Way, which highlights locations of immense historical significance in West Cork from the 1916 rebellion through to the Civil War has been launched.

A Kilmichael man, with the last year of his three-year jail term suspended for dragging a teenage girl into a building and assaulting her, had that last year activated yesterday for becoming aggressive with the probation service.

Courcey Rovers are considering appealing their expulsion from the Cork ladies football junior B championship.

Rapidly growing satellite town Carrigaline could be divided into two local election areas.

The young musician played them the classic Bridges Full of Stitches on her concertina and they came running.

A man claimed he was concerned about a suspicious white van in Macroom and this was why he grabbed a 16-year-old girl and dragged her into a building.

Yesterday evening, with the sun about to disappear over the horizon, I went to check out a few bullocks that seemed to be in a terrible state of agitation.

The Dublin Cookie Co is a mix of old traditions and an entrepreneurial approach, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

I have been let down badly by the readers of this paper. Indeed, so brutal was the betrayal that I seriously considered abstaining from writing for the week.

Seen from the air, the 35-acre non-residential holding which is for sale in the townland of Curraclogh, Lissarda, Co Cork, looks like a rich patchwork quilt of differing shades of green.

“It was 22 degrees in the car when I arrived,” auctioneer Jim O’Brien mentioned to me before taking up his post in the main ring in Bandon mart on Monday.

The subject of breeding is not something I frequently broach on this page, for fear of frightening away the more timid reader.

The Guards is a new series on RTÉ Two looking at life behind the scenes for gardaí in Dublin. It airs at 9.55pm on Tuesday night.

West Cork evokes a lot of different aspects for many people — the landscape, the other-worldliness of the location… even the variation of the land quality.

EVEN a man with Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s forensic attention to detail will struggle to get an advance sense of which Cork side he’s facing today.

Marjorie Brennan selects a Top 10 of the best rebel songs

Midleton 3-6 Douglas 2-6: As the fog began to lift around the ground, Midleton’s Cian Murray lit up this Premier 1 U15 football championship final, scoring 1-5 as his side clinched their second title in two years in dramatic style.

The success of the 1916 commemorations next year will be measured how well the public is converted to the principles behind the Easter Rising, says a historian.

A public meeting is to be held in a rural West Cork community tomorrow night as locals discuss growing fears about the planned construction of a cluster of giant wind turbines near their homes.

In typical January fashion, the rain has arrived to wash away the snow, the snowmen, and the winter wonderland hopes of many schoolchildren — for now.

Home Farm, formerly trained by Arthur Moore, made a winning start for Henry de Bromhead when taking the Listed John Meagher Memorial Chase at Thurles yesterday.

The committee of the National Graves Association would like to bring to your attention the on-going situation with the historic Kilmichael ambush site in Co Cork.

It’s been on the market since late summer, but now this property at Kneeves, Kilmichael, Macroom, is garnering strong interest.

I refer to Michael Clifford’s article: ‘Seeing the past through different prism’ (Irish Examiner, Aug 24).

There are historical commemorations all year round.

THE past is rising up to meet the present right now but, maybe, that’s down to the future being so uncertain.

Clyda Rovers 0-08 Bantry Blues 0-07

Two West Cork historical organisations redeveloping one of Ireland’s best-known War of Independence sites have strongly denied that Auxiliary troops will be commemorated in the new project.