Located in the heart of one of the finest parts of the country for producing both national hunt and point-to-point winning racehorses, a large holding in East Cork is currently listed with Fermoy-based auctioneers Dick Barry & Son, and is sure to attract a good deal of interest from a wide range of farming interests.

Croke Park isn’t supposed to be a bundle of fun when three-quarters of the place lies out of bounds and the crowd can be corralled into a few sections of the Lower Hogan Stand.

An army of Republic of Ireland supporters from Brideview United in Tallow, County Waterford will descend on the Aviva Stadium for the EURO 2020 Qualifier against Georgia after manager Mick McCarthy donated more than 50 tickets to the club.

A person returning to Ireland after, say, 40 years abroad would be amazed at the vast changes in the landscape since the 1970s.

Cheers, the beer is on us. Drivers on a regional road in East Cork couldn’t believe their eyes: What appeared to be debris on the R634 between Youghal and Tallow was an estimated 1,500 cans of beer.

In many homes, the lowly telephone is the poor relation of the mobile phone, but not in the Byrne household, where a functioning landline could help save a baby’s life.

Thomas Greehy was just 19 when he died in the Civil War trying to remove guns from an IRA arms dump in Co Waterford.

Denis Walsh’s life, so many ways, has been a weave of Cork and Waterford.

The renowned sculptor who immortalised hurling giant Christy Ring in bronze has turned his attention to celebrate a living legend.

A former railway station’s comfortable conversion has Trish Dromey making tracks for West Waterford.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) issued 12 Closure Orders and one Prohibition Order on food businesses in July.

Community activists in Waterford are searching for two landmarks that were stolen last week which date to the 1840s.

All roads led to Conna yesterday for the annual Tallow point-to-point meeting and Mulcahys Hill lit up the meeting by posting a scintillating frontrunning performance for the in-form Martin Hassett stable to claim victory in the four-year-old maiden.

The N25 Cork to Waterford Road between Killeagh and Castlemartyr is currently impassable due to flooding. Efforts are being made to open the road and will continue.

Greg Broderick feels the current form of MHS Automatic justifies him being favourite to lift The Underwriting Exchange Grand Prix at tonight’s final of the Jumping In The City Series at Shelbourne Park.

Trish Dromey says this period property in north-east Cork was carefully modernised and now scores a C1 BER.

Space, inside and out, comes as a given with this modern, five-bed detached home north of Youghal.

There are 20 lots due under the auction hammer Thursday next, May 7, in the latest IAMSOLD/Munster Property Auction.

Waterford Council is to commence a ‘softly-softly’ approach in conjunction with enforcement measures in a bid to eradicate dog fouling across the city and county.

It was a red-letter occasion for 20-year-old Johnny Hurley at yesterday’s Avondhu Foxhounds point-to-point fixture at Knockanard for he rode his first winner aboard Jimmy Mangan’s Gabrielleamee in the closing six-year-old and upwards mares’ maiden.

With similar winsome references to the 300-year-old cottage it replaced, this millennium-built recreation on two acres in East Cork marries the old with the new with a host of modern features and four en-suite bedrooms, writes Tommy Barker.

The Adrian Maguire-trained Seventh Sign served notice that he’s an extremely classy recruit to this season’s point-to-point ranks by narrowly coming out on top in a pulsating finale to the open lightweight at yesterday’s well-attended Boulta fixture that was run under the auspices of the West Waterford Foxhounds-

It’s a case of ‘always the Bride valley, and never the Bride’ in the case of the setting of west Waterford’s winsome Brook Lodge.

Rural wrath over the Government’s wind energy and pylons policy was expressed by around 5,000 people outside Leinster House in Dublin yesterday.

The Hollinwell is developing into one of the very best point-to-pointers on the circuit and the British-bred recorded his fourth success of the season by destroying the opposition with his owner/trainer Eugene O’Sullivan’s 17-year-old son Eoin in the open lightweight at yesterday’s Duhallow Foxhounds Kildorrery fixture at Rockmills Stud.

Values for farmland have risen steadily over the last three years and based on this year’s results, the average per acre value for top quality land is now in the region of €15,000 per acre, although there have been sharp spikes this year for certain land sales.

I am aghast at the notion that Eirgrid would even consider the route through scenic Lismore, Co Waterford as an option to upgrade the electricity grid for Ireland.

FAMILY gatherings can be fraught with nervousness at the best of time.

This house was a labour of love and that ethos shines through, Tommy Barker reports

Adrian Maguire seems to have a rich source of talent at his disposal this season and, following Up The Ante’s facile debut success at the Kildorrery point-to-point on Saturday, the Laharn Cross-based operator sent out Sego Success to oblige in ridiculously-easy fashion at yesterday’s Carbery Hunt meeting at Kilpatrick outside Bandon.

BRIDEBRIDGE, CO CORK

IT really is all about the bride for Marcella Ware — she’s just about to relocate from the West Waterford home she built on the banks of the River Bride, moving with her husband Fergal to be closer to the sea and to her Bijou Bridal business in Tramore.

The governing body of equestrian sport in Ireland has said it needs more funding to build on the success of Irish riders at the recent Olympic Games in London and other international competitions.