The parents of a young boy who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident have pleaded with the driver to come forward.

Management at primary schools on the northside of Cork City are to meet and thrash out a way of ensuring their survival in the face of falling enrolments.

A meeting between the Catholic Bishop of Cork John Buckley and three city schools has failed to bring about an agreement on how to deal with dropping pupil numbers.

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THE future of the Church, its power, and its position in Irish society have been glimpsed over the last three weeks in a spat about education. The location was the northside of Cork City, but unfolding events spoke volumes of how the Catholic Church at large intends to shape a future to serve its needs and retain as much power as possible.

The trustees of Cork’s northside primary schools have been urged to consult properly before making any new proposals to deal with enrolment issues in the area.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Cork to demand removal of plans that would close the North Monastery primary school on the city’s northside.

The trustees of a Cork city school whose management and parents oppose plans to close it are being asked to explain their proposal to TDs and senators next month.

Parents fighting to prevent the closure of a historic Cork school are taking their campaign on to the streets.

The Department of Education has not been approached about reform plans for four northside Cork schools that include closing the North Monastery primary school.

Parents of pupils at Cork’s North Monastery primary school have vowed to chain themselves to the gates as they insist plans to move the boys into a merger with a nearby convent school will not go ahead.

The proposed merger of two of Cork’s oldest primary schools is causing controversy on the city’s northside.

The past pupils of two Cork schools are joining forces to honour one of the country’s greatest education innovators.

Comedian Tommy Tiernan has a great skit about NASA, and about the space race that culminated in the moon landing in 1969.

THE attacks upon cyclists by grumpy old men are mounting.

Former Christian Brother Edward Bryan left a Cork courthouse in handcuffs yesterday after being found guilty of six more counts of indecently assaulting boys at a school in the 1980s.

Blackrock and Glen Rovers, two of hurling’s biggest club names in the country, will battle each other to avoid relegation from the senior grade if they lose their championship games tonight.

A major documentary on John Holland, the Irishman who invented the modern submarine, is being planned to mark the centenary of his death next year.

TOMORROW afternoon in Dr Crokes club grounds in Killarney they will don opposing bainisteoir bibs on the sideline for the Corn Ui Mhuirí decider, yet it was on the field that John Flannery and Aidan Moynihan first crossed paths.

LEADING athletics coach Br John Dooley has picked out Derval O’Rourke, David Gillick and Robert Heffernan as Ireland’s best Olympic medal hopes for the games in London next year.

EVENTUALLY you surprise yourself by saying 30 years ago about your own life.

Theo Dorgan, broadcaster, sailor and author, will receive the prestigious O’Shaughnessy Prize for Irish poetry in a couple of weeks in the United States: clearly he’s a man of diverse interests. When Michael Moynihan asked him about his sporting interests he revealed a keen focus.

Tipperary’s Babs Keating and Kilkenny’s Pat Henderson met in Clonmel, Co Tipperary during the week. Diarmuid O’Flynn spoke to them.

Liam Heffernan: the former Glenroe star has some hurling experience from his days at North Mon school before taking his role in Clash of the Ash.

I WAS a pupil at North Monastery CBS, Cork — a ‘Mon boy’ — from 1954 to 1964 and, like your columnist Matt Cooper (May 9), the Christian Brothers left their mark on me.

REPUBLIC of Ireland and Manchester United legend Noel Cantwell will be back in his native Cork this weekend, as the guest speaker at the annual eircom/Soccer Writers Association of Ireland awards ceremony, in the Rochestown Park Hotel.

RACHEL AKERS (Scariff CC), who won both the senior girls discus and hammer at the Kit Kat Irish schools championships in Tullamore last year, begins to defend her titles at CIT in Bishopstown tomorrow at the Kit Kat Munster schools championships, starting at 9.30am.

A CONTROVERSIAL plan to amalgamate two of Cork City’s best-known schools must go ahead, despite opposition from teachers and parents, the Bishop of Cork and Ross has told the Irish Examiner.

DONNACHA O’MAHONY (East Cork) rolled back the years to reclaim the Cork senior cross-country championship title while Freda Davoren (UCC AC) ran her first cross-country race in almost two years to claim her first county title at Inchigeela yesterday, when East Cork eventually won an enthralling team contest with their North Cork rivals.

THERE was a time when they were as close as peas in a pod. That brilliant St Finbarr’s side of the late 70s/early 80s, Donal O’Grady was the tough, hard-jawed full-back, John Allen the tall, bearded, commanding figure outside him, in the centre of the half-line. Before that decade was out, however, the partnership had broken up, their paths drifted apart.