The plans included two controversial car parks on public land

Cork City Council has refused planning permission for the revamp because it included plans for car parks on land designated to be part of the soon-to-be-opened Marina Park amenity

The GAA has been refused planning for a revamp of the Páirc Uí Chaoimh GAA stadium in Cork city because it included proposals for two car parks on publicly-owned land

Glory Days could be ahead as The Boss plans big concerts in Ireland next year

This weekend will be the fifth successive weekend in which such centres have operated in Cork

A number of city councillors have published  submissions on the planning application from Páirc Uí Chaoimh to revamp the stadium

Plans for more parking, a bus turning circle and comprehensive internal reorganisation have been submitted, as residents say GAA has reneged on earlier promises, writes Eoin English

Ballintemple residents complain of parking in bike lanes, on paths, and on double yellow lines last Sunday

Fighting the pandemic

Lead vaccinator Aífe O’Connell talks through the entire process, which takes about a half an hour

Cork GAA stadium is one of 11 major centres pressed into service nationwide as the Covid-19 vaccine rollout ramps up  

Both cities — as well as towns in Kerry, Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary — are set to be revitalised in €1.3bn URDF allocation

Proposed redevelopment features a new GAA museum, exhibition and visitor centre and licensed restaurants and café

Páirc Uí Chaoimh will play host to just one game during the opening fortnight of Cork county championship action.

As clubs embark on their preparations for a return to action in July, the Irish Examiner this week begins rebroadcasting some classic games from the archives of the Cork county championships.

Cork manager Ronan McCarthy has criticised the second-rate structuring of the 2020 All-Ireland football championship, describing as unacceptable that football teams must make do with a straight knockout format whereas the hurling championship will have a backdoor.

Kerry football manager Peter Keane will have six uninterrupted weeks with his panel ahead of the county’s Munster semi-final against Cork, a knockout fixture Kerry chiefs have no issue with Cork having home advantage for.

It will be almost five months before this year’s Munster SHC final takes place but at least there are plans to stage one. Not only did the pandemic threaten it but the GAA’s powers-that-be also appear to be moving against the provincial structures.

Kerry will honour their home and away arrangement with Cork for November’s Munster SFC semi-final, a knockout fixture to be played at Páirc Uí Chaoimh which will spell the end of one team’s interest in the championship.

The navy's flagship left Cork city this morning after finishing her deployment on Covid-19 operations.

W HEN Johnny Ryan blew the half-time whistle in the 2014 Dublin-Waterford league relegation final, the four members of the Waterford management surrounded Johnny as effectively as a Tyrone or Armagh blanket defence would have done when they first started gobbling up opposition forwards.

Over the weekend there were suggestions the GAA would release its inter-county schedule very soon indeed.

Kerry great Tomás Ó Sé, part of the last team to win a knockout All-Ireland in 2000 before the qualifier series, has urged the GAA to go a step further this year and introduce a full open draw.

MAYBE it’s just because there’s more time to stand back and observe during the coronavirus crisis, but am I the only person who thinks our trees never looked better than they do this year?

Former Kerry captain Ambrose O'Donovan has claimed that current skipper David Clifford, and top forwards nationwide, badly need greater protection from referees.

I was always a good child — sports-mad and I loved school. I was good at sport and subjects like Biology, Chemistry and Business but was absolutely dreadful at singing and anything that involved music.

"I began to lose control of the car. I managed to half park in out of the way. I was coughing up blood. I tried to get out of my car and ring Maria, my wife. I got the phone in my hand and that’s the last thing I remember."

As it would have for most people, Seán Óg Ó hAilpín’s appearance on The Sunday Game this past weekend evoked memories of his greatest days in a Cork jersey.

The historic Marina riverside amenity in Cork has been pedestrianised for the summer, fuelling hopes that it could become permanent.

Fresh doubts have arisen over Ireland's Covid-19 testing and contact tracing system.

In a Covid-19-free world, the Munster minor hurling championship would have thrown-in over the weekend, hurling’s latest batch of bright young things ushered into the championship arena at Páirc Uí Chaoimh and Walsh Park.

I wouldn’t have boasted about him in school or anything, but I was hugely proud of him. His greatest lesson to us was to win with grace and to lose with grace, and not to be blowing your own trumpet.

Munster chairman Liam Lenihan has raised concerns about insurance covering players returning to action.

The riverside Marina amenity in Cork is to go car-free this summer.

"Breaks? I would have broken most of the fingers. That’s only natural. The tops of some of them won’t bend anymore, one or two more are like springs going this way and that, they do their own thing."

Noel Walsh, one of the masterminds behind Clare's 1992 Munster Senior Football Championship win and a progressive GAA administrator, has died.

Local authorities in Munster are pushing forward with major infrastructure projects including Limerick’s €180m Opera site and the planned Eastern Gateway Bridge crossing the River Lee in Cork.

The coronavirus has set challenges for sports clubs and organisations across the spectrum. From a rugby perspective, the professional game is already in turmoil after only weeks of inactivity, while its amateur equivalent is also feeling the pain, writes Donal Lenihan.

It's a story Derek Hegarty hasn’t told in quite a while. Those who know, know. Those who don’t tend not to pry.

Testing capacity at Cork’s Páirc Uí Chaoimh Covid-19 swab centre plunged from its target of 1,000 tests per day to just 100 over the last two weeks, a source at the centre said.

Dr Tony Holohan, the chief medical officer, said that 25 further deaths had been recorded in Ireland as of early Friday afternoon, bringing the total in Ireland to 288.

Concerns have been raised as testing for Covid-19 two of the State’s largest testing facilities has ground to a halt, despite official claims that daily sampling is being ramped up.

Staff at the country’s largest Covid-19 test centre have cleared their testing backlog, but are gearing up for a busy week.

A teenage boy with Angelman syndrome who is awaiting the results of a Covid-19 test has no understanding of the outbreak despite the best efforts of his mother to explain that there is a "virus in the sky."