The Shay Barry-trained De Bene Esse hinted that a bright track career lies in wait by readily putting his rivals to the sword in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s Bandon point-to-point meeting, run under the auspices of the Carbery Foxhounds at Kilpatrick.

A 32-year-old man who claims he was left with a brain injury after he tripped and fell in a car park at night has settled his High Court action for €1m.

Ground conditions were extremely demanding at yesterday’s Carbery Hunt point-to-point fixture at Kilpatrick outside Bandon.

A gambling addict conned over €27,000 from a couple by convincing them racehorse owner JP McManus would finance their angel sanctuary business.

Adrian Maguire seems to have a rich source of talent at his disposal this season and, following Up The Ante’s facile debut success at the Kildorrery point-to-point on Saturday, the Laharn Cross-based operator sent out Sego Success to oblige in ridiculously-easy fashion at yesterday’s Carbery Hunt meeting at Kilpatrick outside Bandon.

A previously unknown letter written by a Cork lord mayor who died on hunger strike in a British jail has been sold to the Cork City and County Archives.

The auction of a unique collection of War of Independence letters is to go ahead tonight despite calls for the collection to be kept in public ownership.

Rare letters linked to Ireland’s struggle for independence, including a handwritten note by the British prime minister, which were found in a collection not seen in public for almost a century, will go on display in Cork today before the collection goes under the hammer.

A SERIES of value-driven public auction and private treaty clearances are coming out of the traps with selling agents Downing Commercial and they include five houses, in varying stages of construction on three acres with FPP for 15 dwellings, guiding €70,000.

Purchasers looking at a quality Cork farm are interested in the security value of land, and its capacity for wealth preservation — essentially parking their cash in land; and according to its selling agent, the sale of this 137-acre farm near Bandon should be wrapped up in a month — that’s the optimistic view of land sales specialist Mike Brady as he calls last orders on Brothersfort Farm, Kilpatrick.

A West Cork cattle dealer who pleaded guilty to moving cattle into a restricted herd, contrary to legislation aimed at preventing the spread of TB, has received a six-month suspended prison sentence.

Motorists face months of disruption in West Cork’s gateway town as works begin tomorrow on a multimillion-euro drainage scheme.

HORSE SPORT Ireland (HSI) has opted to send the full complement of six horses to compete in the eventing competition of the Alltech World Equestrian Games in Kentucky, USA.

THE Margaret O’Sullivan-trained Oscar Delta confirmed the positive impression he created when shedding his maiden tag at Ballindenisk in December by landing a very competitive renewal of the winners of one at the Carbery Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Kilpatrick yesterday.

GARDAÍ were yesterday questioning two people in relation to a spate of burglaries in Co Cork which involved the theft of tens of thousands of euro worth of property.

MORE than half of the country’s 43 constituencies will undergo extensive changes in electoral registers and county boundaries under the raft of recommendations by the Constituency Commission.

TRAINER Adrian Maguire ran three horses at yesterday’s Bandon point-to-point at Kilpatrick and remarkably the former Gold Cup winning jockey went away with three winners.

KILPATRICK, is out the road from Mallow and is an impressive property with five bedrooms and a large site close to Ballyclough and the famous, Longueville House Hotel.

YOU get a lotta house for your money at the moment in Mallow, the Co Cork town that’s rapidly become a major commuting centre for Cork city.

THE original of the species, a two-storey cottage at Kilpatrick , Bandon, was probably built by the Congested Districts board in the late 19th and early 20th century.