Des O’Sullivan previews the upcoming Woodward’s auction next week.

Trainer Patrick Prendergast introduced a very promising filly, Queen Blossom, to make a winning debut in the median auction maiden on yesterday’s seven-race card at Cork.

Come November/December, typically there are very few houses (especially those with high price aspirations, or in the country homes market) come for sale. 

David Hubbard scored the line in 15 great bowls at Ballinacurra where he beat Paul Buckley by almost a bowl.

Police in the UK are continuing to search for missing teenager Jayden Parkinson who they believe has been murdered.

A Sligo school’s re-enactment of local life and schooling in the 1930s won it the top prize at a national film competition.

The last mention that we had of this farm near Bandon in Co Cork was on Christmas week, 2005.

APART from those in flat racing’s insider circles the name Wayne Lordan doesn’t mean much to many people.

ANTHONY GOULD finished with two exceptional bowls to take the first big championship of 2011 when he beat David Hubbard in the last shot of their Munster Premier Intermediate tie at Ballinacurra, Upton on Sunday.

THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has received two separate requests to investigate a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

WESTMEATH-BASED trainer Mark Fagan recorded his biggest success on the flat at Gowran Park yesterday, when Duchess Of Foxland ran out an impressive winner of Hurry Harriet Stakes.

THE reaction of pretty teenager Lorna Ahern at dinner in Disneyland Paris last night summed it all up.

CHRISTMAS has really come early for four-year-old Cian O’Brien.

A BOIL water notice was lifted from several parts of Co Cork after test results on water samples from the Innishannon Water Supply Scheme were clear.

A BRAVE little boy has stunned medics by walking and talking just days after a brain operation.

An man who lost his legal challenge against the Redress Board's refusal to accept his application for compensation is to appeal his case to the Supreme Court.

An alleged victim of abuse has lost his legal challenge against the Redress Board's decision to refuse his late application for compensation on the grounds of exceptional circumstances.

The High Court will rule next week on a legal challenge brought by a man who claims he was abused in an industrial school against the Residential Institutions Redress Board's refusal to accept his application for compensation.

An alleged victim of abuse has commenced a legal challenge against the Redress Board's decision not to accept his late application on grounds of exceptional circumstances.

Another Irish jockey looks set to win the conditional jockeys’ title this year — following in the footsteps of Graham Lee, Paddy Brennan and Tom O’Brien. Declan Colley met with this latest Irish riding sensation, Aidan Coleman.

CAIM HILL, off the track since September, and On The Way Out, ninth in the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown, dead-heated at the end of a thriller for the Listed Surehaul Mercedes Novice Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

THE bulk of this farm at Lissaniskey, Upton, Co Cork, was sold in the buoyant property days of 2003 through Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith.

THE bulk of this farm at Lissaniskey, Upton, Co Cork was sold in the buoyant property days of 2003 through Anthony O’Regan of Keane Mahony Smith.

THE trial began yesterday of an airport employee being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Authority arising out of an incident where a co-worker suffered fractures to both ankles when mobile stairs were moved as he exited the plane.

FRANCIS CONNORS had double reason to smile yesterday after winning the €21,000 grand prix and the €10,000 Austin Trumann Steel Boomerang Final at Millstreet Horse Show.

THE Brothers of Charity are planning a multi-million euro project to relocate people with disabilities into the community.

IT WAS a long, drawn-out footballing weekend, a rollercoaster ride spread over three days.

THERE was unbridled joy in a Cork stable yesterday as a Cheltenham champion was welcomed home.

Irish racing may have a new training hero before Cheltenham is over. John Murphy may not be a well known name outside the racing fraternity, but Declan Colley says that could change in today’s Queen Mother Champion Chase with Newmill.

A €1 MILLION cheque from a mystery donor has answered the prayers of a country parish.

THE spread of new housing, high land values and burgeoning demand have prompted Hop Island equestrian centre to relocate.

THREE years ago, James Morrison flew from London to testify to the Laffoy Commission.

GORTALOUGH, which exclusively hit these pages with a record-seeking €2.5 million splash last weekend, has features to fill pages of newsprint and magazines... so here’s a taste and context.

THE house that provided secret succour to General Tom Barry and which was mentioned in his book Guerrilla Days in Ireland, is on the market this week with a guide price of €635,000.

Gardai have sent almost 100 files to the Director of Public Prosecutions following complaints from pupils of a former industrial school in Upton, Co Cork.

One of Cork's most "vicious and violent criminals" who has 84 previous convictions was today jailed for 12 years for the brutal killing of an epileptic man who "innocently" wandered into his company.