Ahead of Cork Fashion Week, five of the city’s movers and shakers tell Claire O’Sullivan what gives the city its edge

In Pat Spillane’s autobiography Shooting From The Hip, he related how Mick O’Dwyer would deal with rumours of opposition spies attending Kerry training.

The GAA is a conservative and traditional organisation but it is far from backward.

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Davy Fitzgerald has named his Waterford side for Sunday's Munster Senior Hurling final against Tipperary in Pairc Ui Caoimh.

AFTER taking to 40 pitches across Cork yesterday, more than 4,000 U14 GAA players from across Ireland, England and America brought a splash of colour to the city as they paraded in their team colours.

A SEARCH is under way amid fears the driver of a stolen car that plunged into the River Lee may have drowned.

GAA officials are set to launch an investigation into the overcrowding that marred yesterday's Munster championship clash between Cork and Tipperary.

A VIRTUAL “Rock of Ages” line-up has been confirmed for the Live at the Marquee gigs in Cork, with the announcement yesterday that the latest acts to sign up are Elton John and rap idol 50 Cent.

Cork-based concert organisers, Viva Cork, are exhausting all avenues to get Irish rockers U2 to come to Cork for a major charity music festival later this year.

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THE Cork senior football coach for the coming year will have the right to name his own selectors.

KERRY could make a change to their defensive line-up when they name their side to face Tyrone in Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final after training in Fitzgerald Stadium tonight.

NOBODY should have been surprised by the brilliance of Brendan Cummins for Tipperary in the second half of the Guinness All-Ireland semi-finals.

THEY may be out of the permanent tsb Cork County SHC, losing 2-16 to 3-8, but new kids on the block, Delanys, came of age at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, giving champions Blackrock a searching test.

LIMERICK hurling boss Dave Keane has extended an olive branch to Ciaran Carey, urging him to rejoin the county’s panel.

WEXFORD are unsure of the availability of Rory McCarthy for Sunday’s Guinness Leinster hurling final against All-Ireland champions Kilkenny in Croke Park.

Clare 2-17 Tipperary 0-14

Cork 0-15 Limerick 0-14

Graham Canty will make his first full start for Cork this season after he was named in the starting 15 for the team’s National Football League clash with Tyrone in Pairc Ui Caoimh this Sunday.

It was hard at times in Pairc Ui Caoimh to escape the feeling that you were a victim of the current fad of nostalgia. So striking were the parallels with the National League final that this match could almost have been titled, "I love 1999."