At least four UK police forces are investigating sex abuse allegations linked to Edward Heath, it has been revealed.

John Cleary will decide this week if he will allow his name to be considered for the vacant Cork senior football team manager’s post.

The lack of competitive games this weekend ensured they passed without any major controversy, even as we get close to the summit of the football season.

St Finbarr’s 1-17 Bishopstown 0-10: Accuracy and class helped St Finbarr’s to a comprehensive win over Bishopstown in yesterday’s Cork SHC Round 3 clash at Pairc Ui Rinn.

For too long people accepted the terrible toll of infant deaths like Little Nellie’s. Victoria White says we shouldn’t be trying to exhume her, but rather remember her with a fight for universal health care.

Denis Bastick has won All-Irelands, Leinster titles and Allianz Leagues in his decade with Dublin, but the midfielder hasn’t forgotten the low of 2009 when a season’s stint at full-back triggered a cascade of criticism in the wake of their quarter-final defeat to Kerry.

Celtic’s Champions League hopes are in the balance after a narrow 3-2 win over Malmo in the first leg of their play-off which saw former Hoops attacker Jo Inge Berget return to haunt the Parhead club with a double.

They played nice at their respective press evenings but it’s hardly surprising that when two counties who share such a storied, chequered recent history meet, there are going to be unpalatable truths for both.

Shamorck Rovers 3 Cork City 0: Damien Duff finally made his League of Ireland debut last night, coming on in the dying moments in Tallaght immediately after a third Shamrock Rovers goal had ensured the comprehensive victory which boosts the Hoops European dreams while leaving Cork City’s title aspirations hanging by the slenderest of threads.

Liverpool 1 Bournemouth 0: Christian Benteke has a long way to go before he seals his place in the pantheon of Liverpool’s legendary strikers but winning the affection of the Kop may come a little easier.

When all the social media chatter around Rory McIlroy is about the annoying frequency of his TV commercial for a watch company, you know it has not been the most impactful of weeks in America for the Irishman.

It may have been a long time coming but the manner of Jason Day’s PGA Championship victory in Wisconsin suggests that now he has overcome the biggest hurdle the Australian has what it takes to be a major champion for some time to come.

As Ireland announced it was happy with the new tax strategy aimed at preventing countries privileging multinationals, Finance Minister Michael Noonan warned that the battle to protect Ireland’s foreign direct investment was not yet over.

The president of Cork Institute of Technology has claimed that allegations made against the college by an anonymous whistle-blower were “almost entirely malicious falsehoods” that were “intended to damage the good name of CIT, its governors, and staff”.

Chelsea 1 Southampton 3: John Terry offered his backing to Jose Mourinho after Chelsea’s season took a significant turn for the worse on Saturday.

Bray Wanderers 0 Cork City 1: Cork City claimed their place in the ‘dream’ FAI Cup final against Dundalk thanks to a goal from Danny Morrissey, who paid an immediate price for his match-winning heroics.

Phew… that was the general consensus at the end of a too-close for comfort match which put Ireland in the quarter-final of the Rugby World Cup once more.

Rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed hillside on the outskirts of Guatemala City as the death toll rose to 69, with another 350 people believed missing.

IT’S the sameness that gets to us – that sinking feeling on arrival at a holiday destination, that it’s as similar to home as makes no difference.