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A major fundraising drive has been launched to help a girl with cerebral palsy continue a pioneering treatment which could help her realise her dream to walk.

Shoplifting gangs are shifting their attention from Cork City centre to county towns connected by the railway.

It would be fair to assume Goresbridge might have reservations about Horse Sport Ireland’s plan to launch a dedicated website for horse vendors which is aimed at attracting foreign custom.

Cork IFA members are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the county’s decision to create the divisions of west, north, and central.

RURAL Ireland has been stripped of its post offices and garda stations and now the Government is squeezing out small national schools in a bid to make savings, a meeting of the Save our Small Schools Campaign in Dunmanway, Co Cork, heard yesterday.

THE political landscape of the Cork South-West constituency has changed forever following the announcement a second long-serving TD will not seek re-election.

THE Milner household in Ballinacarriga is quiet. Situated idyllically, there is a clichéd yet reassuring serenity in the Girlough townland. But Michael Milner is doing his best to disrupt all that.

An important seminar for beekeepers will be held from 2pm at the Parkway Hotel, Dunmanway, tomorrow. The seminar will be opened by Trevor Sargent, Minister for Food and Horticulture, and comes in response to the loss of the many hundreds of hives last year in this area.

THE Mayor of Co Cork, Cllr John O’Shea, made a shock announcement yesterday when he confirmed that he would be withdrawing his name from tomorrow night’s FG selection convention for the Cork South-West constituency.

AN action group has been set up to seek improved education facilities for children with special needs.

TWENTY-eight years on, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan finally got to lift the Sam Maguire Cup, not in Croke Park where the honour was denied him in the 1975 All-Ireland football final against Dublin, but in Dunmanway where winning captains and their representatives over the last 75 years were honoured on Saturday.

The GAA has confirmed that it will host a celebration in Dunmanway, Co Cork next Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of the the first presentation of the Sam Maguire Cup.