Newtownshandrum produced the shock of the Cork SHC at Mourneabbey on Saturday as last season’s semi-finalists and 2017 finalists Blackrock crashed out.

Fiona Keating, should results fall in her favour this weekend, won’t be the first dual player to pocket two county senior championship medals in the one year. What’s unique about this 17-year-old is that she’s bidding to achieve double glory in the space of 25 hours.

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

Mourneabbey go to the well all over again tomorrow.

Should either UCC team score a quarter-final victory this weekend, then the disquiet which greeted the hurlers’ surprise win over Midleton last Sunday will swell considerably.

“In training, they’ll do anything you ask them to do. They’d go through a brick wall for you"

They marched in their hundreds, retracing the footsteps of the volunteers who took to the roads of Co Cork on Easter Sunday 1916.

Some of the events taking place across Cork to commemorate the centenary of the Rising include:

AFTER Macroom, the biggest numbers to mobilise in Cork on Easter Sunday gathered at Bweeng, between Blarney and Mallow.

Paul Bradford admits it’s going to be an uphill battle for the fledgling party, writes Sean O’Riordan

Farmers have been urged by a veterinary surgeon to keep their eyes peeled for a pack of vicious dogs which bit off the ears of two cows.

Doireann O’Sullivan is first through the dressing room door in Mourneabbey, sister Méabh but two paces behind.

St Francis College, Rochestown 0-23 Charleville CBS 2-12: St Francis College turned on the power in the second half of this crucial Harty Cup tie at Mourneabbey yesterday to qualify for the knockout stages in the new year. 

Clay angels made in memory of murdered Irish nurse Karen Buckley will go on display as part of an exhibition at a library in Limerick next month.

Ciara O’Sullivan was present at GAA headquarters for the first three of Cork’s All-Ireland final wins, standing in awe as Juliet Murphy lifted the Brendan Martin Cup September after September after September.

In the end, it took just 20 minutes to hand down the mandatory life sentence.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

The parents of murdered Irish nurse Karen Buckley will be in court this morning for the sentencing of the man who bludgeoned their daughter to death.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

The Scottish courts system has given special permission for journalists to cover the sentencing of Karen Buckley’s killer Alexander Pacteau live on Twitter.

Documentaries about two Cork related murders have been included by TV3 in its autumn schedule.

“Our hearts are broken at the thought of Karen’s final moments on this world.

Karen Buckley’s father described Alexander Pacteau as ‘truly evil’ after the killer admitted repeatedly hitting her with a spanner and trying to dispose of her body in a bath of chemicals. In an emotional speech outside of court, John Buckley, who travelled with his wife Marian and three sons for the hearing said there are no words to describe what the family went through.

People across Scotland and Ireland expressed their sympathy for the family of Karen Buckley after her disappearance.

EVEN in a world that seems ever more callous, ever more brutal and indifferent to the sensibilities we all hope might protect us from the worst excesses of humanity, especially humanity informed by evil, the Glasgow murder of Karen Buckley, a 24-year-old nurse from Mourneabbey, Co Cork, stands out.

The heartbroken family of murdered student nurse Karen Buckley have spoken of their deep gratitude for the huge outpouring of sympathy and support they received since her disappearance and death in Glasgow two months ago.

The detective, who is heading up the investigation into the murder of Cork nurse Karen Buckley, has thanked the Irish public for the support they have shown.

The funeral of Karen Buckley has been told of the indescribable hurt and pain wreaked on her devastated family by an utterly inappropriate death.

A couple who were shattered by a freak tragedy have become the public face of a campaign to keep late-night revellers safe on Irish roads, Michael Noonan says Siteserv inquiry will not look at AIB and Paddy Power causes controversy with new ad campaign. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

Exactly two weeks after her murder in Glasgow, the body of Karen Buckley returned to her home in Mourneabbey in Co Cork.

The body of murdered Irish student Karen Buckley is expected to be flown home today, accompanied by her family, after it was officially released by authorities in Glasgow yesterday.

The man charged with the murder of Cork student Karen Buckley will stand trial before the end of the year.

Cork County Council has opened books of condolence in memory of Karen Buckley and is to write to the Scottish police and the local authority in Glasgow thanking them for the professionalism and for the support the city’s people showed her family.

The family of Irish student Karen Buckley face an agonising wait before they can bring her body home for burial.

Joe Leogue takes a look-back at the week since Karen’s disappearance

“Karen was our only daughter, cherished by our family and loved by her friends. She was an outgoing girl, who travelled the world where she met lots of people and thoroughly enjoyed her life. We will miss her terribly.”

A man is to appear in court today after the body of missing student Karen Buckley was discovered on farmland.

The university where Karen Buckley began her nursing studies is today honouring the memory of a popular graduate whose “main aim in life was to help people”.

A friend and neighbour of Karen Buckley said she is haunted by the thought of Karen’s body being found on an isolated Scottish farm so far from her native Cork.

A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of student Karen Buckley, a Labour senator has published plans to make cyberbullying a criminal offence and Jason McAteer says Roy Keane persuaded Alex Ferguson not to axe him many times. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime.

Hundreds of people gathered at a church in Mourneabbey last night for a Mass of Hope for missing student Karen Buckley as word filtered through that police in Scotland had detained a man for questioning in relation to her disappearance.