Dean Rock insists that the “experience of a lifetime” with club side Ballymun Kickhams is more than worth harming his Dublin senior prospects for.

Andy Warhol’s unique screenprint ‘Martha Graham, Letter to the World (The Kick) 1986’, estimated at €10,000-€14,000, is one of the most expensive lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s art sale at the Radisson Hotel, Little Island, Cork next Monday at 6.30pm.

THE man with the microphone said that he used to call one street in his home town the Bermuda Triangle.

This sale, writes Des O’Sullivan , features a variety of highly collectible Irish art

Adding value and scale is the big challenge facing the seafood sector, 50 seafood companies heard at a networking seminar yesterday in the Radisson Hotel, Dublin Airport.

THE Carling Nations Cup may not have exactly heated up, but Nigel Worthington has certainly warmed up.

David Hasselhoff is demanding a host of beauty treatments backstage at 'Britain's Got Talent'.

BUSINESS leaders and community groups in south and east Cork are joining forces to develop a job creation strategy, with a strong focus on green economy opportunities.

SPEED dating was devised as a solution to help couples get together. And in the conference centre of the Radisson Hotel in Cork yesterday it seemed like every business in Ireland was looking for love.

PEOPLE will have a first and last opportunity to walk under the River Shannon next Saturday when the €660 million tunnel road connecting Limerick and Clare will open for pedestrians.

Irish managers need to believe that they are the best in the world, according to Digicel chairman Denis O’Brien.

C&C has set September 25 as the date for the EGM, at which the group’s shareholders will vote on its proposed acquisition of Tennent’s Lager and the other assets within the Irish, Northern Irish and Scottish division of the Anheuser Busch-InBev brewing giant.

Dean Richards has refused to reveal whether there was a systematic attempt to fake blood injuries at Harlequins despite his three-year ban for doing it on five separate occasions.

MAKING your business greener using technology will save you money.

SCHOOL secretaries have staged the first in a series of one-day stoppages in protest at their low level of pay which sees some earning less than the minimum wage.

Better than 2006? By general consensus, yes. While the manic fear of losing drove Munster to a first Heineken Cup victory over Biarritz, this time around there was a clinical, cold intensity about the manner in which they squeezed the resistance out of France’s finest. Six of the central characters relive one of this country’s finest sporting achievements.

ALLIANZ, the long-term sponsor of the National Leagues, is being shortchanged by the choice of venues for this weekend’s showpiece NFL finals, according to Derry manager Paddy Crozier.

The GAA's Dispute's Resolution Authority (DRA) last night released a decision on the 'Of One Belief' versus the Central Council Anti-grants issue.

After almost ten hours of talks between the anti-Government grants movement and the Central Council in Dublin last night, a decision has yet to be announced by the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) on the issue.

IT should come as no surprise that plans for Ireland’s nations cup participation are to be revised following ShowjumpingIreland’s re-negotiation last week of its financial input.

They may have a bit more grey hair than when they took to the field against arguably one of the world's greatest footballing sides, but some familiar and legendary faces gathered in Dublin this afternoon to commemorate an All Ireland sporting achievement 35 years ago.

The achievements of the women’s movement across Ireland was being celebrated this weekend with a host of events to mark International Women’s Day.

THE bitter stand-off over Cork Airport’s potentially crippling debt is set to drag on.

CORK will play host to a major conference next week which will discuss the challenges facing the €33 billion bio-pharma industry in Ireland.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested after a shooting incident involving two cars on a dual carriageway in Limerick.

A MOTHER whose daughter died as a result of fertility treatment complications protested with family and friends outside the venue of the inaugural meeting of the Irish Fertility Society yesterday.

MID-WEST entries are being given a head start in this year’s Tidy Towns competition. A special talk tonight has been organised to give committees from around the region some expert advice on how to clock up winning points.

L’IRLANDE envahit Castres. Or, for those of you who, like myself, never progressed beyond pass French for the Inter: ‘The Irish invade Castres’.

POLICING in Ireland will go back to the Dark Ages if the Government adopts a recommendation to centralise gardaí in district headquarters, a garda leader will tell his organisation’s annual seminar today.

CORK and Shannon airports will grow once they are independent of Aer Rianta and the dominance of Dublin airport, a top Canadian airport executive predicted yesterday.

LIFE can be difficult enough for any young Irish emigrant, what with trying to adapt to a new environment, new culture, new friends. Even for the most adventurous there will always be the tug of home, the yearning for the familiar, for old faces, old friends.