After almost a decade in the doldrums, renewed activity is expected across a number of fronts in Cork city’s docklands and quays in 2016, with knock-on effects on major sites downriver in Cork harbour including Marino Point and Ringaskiddy.

A timeline of the most recent saga in Irish football.

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After years in abeyance, Cork harbour’s infrastructural asset Marino Point may be poised for new uses and employment, subject to its multi-million euro sale being ratified by Nama in coming weeks.

NAMA says funding is in place to deliver 4,500 new houses and apartments in Dublin over the next 18 months.

CORK harbour and port amenity with a deep water jetty at Marino Point is to be sold after a ‘Best Bids’ process in October, with a price expectation of up to €7m indicated.

LENS, in northern France, has several claims to fame. Its railway station is unique and the only branch of the Louvre, outside Paris, has been established in the town.

More than 10,000 people will travel from Cork Airport to ski resorts over the coming weeks — the highest for the region since the recession began.

A premises housing a VIP piano bar and nightclub which was run as an extension of Dublin’s internationally famed Unicorn Restaurant has been repossessed by its new South African-based owners.

A High Court challenge has been launched against An Bord Pleanála’s refusal to grant permission for a crematorium and burial grounds in south Co Dublin.

The refusal of An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission to build a graveyard and crematorium near the Dublin Mountains is being challenged in the High Court.

Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen, fresh from a reasonably successful Galway, turned their attention to Cork yesterday and duly combined to land the featured Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Give Thanks Stakes with Sapphire.

For most of us, skiing constitutes a leisure activity more than a sport, but for Cork sisters Claire (15) and Isabel (13) O’Leary it could be the ticket to representing Ireland at the Winter Olympics.

A RECORD number of repossession cases were listed in the High Court yesterday where some eight family homes were given over to banks and lenders.

SKI instructors from Austria will be present at the Ski Club of Ireland in Kilternan next weekend (Saturday and Sunday) to introduce the ever popular sport which thousands of Irish people enjoy each year.

A PROVISIONAL liquidator has been appointed by the High Court to Dublin’s Morrison Hotel after one of its owners, Hugh O’Regan, withdrew the hotel operating company’s defence to a claim by an Anglo Irish Bank appointed receiver for €5.7 million unpaid rent.

A troubled youth who committed a series of burglaries at his family home and their neighbour’s houses after being asked to leave by his adoptive parents has been given a five-year sentence.

YOUNG MUNSTER claimed the Limerick Charity Cup for the first time in 13 years with a dogged 11-10 win over UL Bohemian at Thomond Park on Saturday.

The High Court has made an order winding up three companies controlled by hotelier Hugh O’Regan.

DLSP have renamed their grounds Kirwan Park in memory of the late Jack Kirwan, who passed away in February of this year, and also the contribution of the Kirwan family to Palmerston, De La Salle Palmerston FC, Leinster Rugby, the IRFU and the International Rugby Board.

Motorists in Dublin are being warned that there is heavy flooding on the main road through Kilternan by the Church of Ireland.

Bective Under 7s beat Old Belvedere Under 7s in the final of the Kieran Burke Memorial Plaque in Kilternan today.

TERENURE moved two points clear in Division Two when proving too strong for visitors UCC.

HAVING won Division One last season, Shannon travel to play 2003 champions Ballymena at Eaton Park today.

THE alarm went off at six - a peal from the past. For rising at that ungodly hour on a Saturday could only mean one thing ... AIL away day.

CORK CONSTITUTION and Munster have been given a timely boost with the return from injury of David Pusey.

Old Belvedere maintained their lead at the top of the AIB League Division Two, thanks to a 20-8 success at Ballynahinch this afternoon.

DLSP 26 St Mary's College 25

CLONTARF, Lansdowne and Ballymena will be joined by either Buccaneers or Belfast Harlequins in the top four play-offs for the AIB League title this weekend.

DLSP XV v Ballynahinch, Saturday March 8, at Kilternan

Terenure missed six place kicks at goal but still managed to overcome DLSP by a single point at Kilternan.

Blackrock just about managed to keep ahead of their opponents in this lively clash played at Kilternan this afternoon.

Damien McCabe kicked 17 points as DLSP beat defending champions Dungannon in Kilternan today.

DLSP 9 Shannon 16

Gardai have launched an appeal for the public's help in seeking information

Two people killed on the roads within the last 24 hours have been named.

Three tries for Paul O'Connell helped Young Munster to victory over De La Salle at Kilter Nan.