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Gardai have launched an appeal

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Sexual assaults in North Cork double during 2021

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Gobnait Twomey celebrated her 100th birthday at a special party and was thrilled to receive €2,540 in a congratulatory message from President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins.

News

Gobnait celebrates 100th birthday in style

Shane O'Connell.

News

Cork teacher Shane O’Connell is face of TG4 show

Therapies include speech-and-language therapy, opthalmology, dietetics, occupational and physical therapy

News

Over 3,000 children are now waiting for therapy in North Cork

Russian navy ships are seen during navy drills in the Black Sea

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West Cork fishermen to meet Russian ambassador over military exercise

Cllr Eileen Lynch

News

Female councillors tell of their own fears over personal safety as they win support for anti-abuse campaign

The decision whether to give planning permission for the Ballymaquirke Cross roundabout has been delayed until mid March by An Bórd Pleanála.

News

Ballymaquirke Cross works delay anger

Siobhán Leonard, Nóirina O' Sullivan, Kaitlyn Kelleher, Katie Feehan, Meadhbh Walsh and Erin Foley were celebrating the lifting of Covid restrictions at the O' C Bar Kanturk on Saturday night.

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Patrons raise their glasses to the end of restrictions

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‘Everybody is just heartbroken’ – toddler dies after being struck by car in driveway of his home

Ger Kelleher of MJK Oils in Clondrohid is a member of the Alliance for Zero Carbon and is pictured here with Alliance CEO, Kevin McPartlan.

News

How 80k Cork homes could cut emissions with new fuels

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News

Cork punter scoops €50k Prize Bond win

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Freemount Instrumrental Music won Duhallow and Co. Scor na nOg titles in 1997. Picture John Tarrant

Remembering Scórs gone by

Shane O'Connell.

Cork teacher Shane O’Connell is face of TG4 show

Ger Kelleher of MJK Oils in Clondrohid is a member of the Alliance for Zero Carbon and is pictured here with Alliance CEO, Kevin McPartlan.

How 80k Cork homes could cut emissions with new fuels

Russian navy ships are seen during navy drills in the Black Sea

West Cork fishermen to meet Russian ambassador over military exercise

Cllr Eileen Lynch

Female councillors tell of their own fears over personal safety as they win support for anti-abuse campaign

The decision whether to give planning permission for the Ballymaquirke Cross roundabout has been delayed until mid March by An Bórd Pleanála.

Ballymaquirke Cross works delay anger

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Cork punter scoops €50k Prize Bond win

Therapies include speech-and-language therapy, opthalmology, dietetics, occupational and physical therapy

Over 3,000 children are now waiting for therapy in North Cork

Sport

Former Cork senior hurling team manager John Meyler will head up the Cork Under-15 hurling development programme

GAA

John Meyler to co-ordinate and head up the Rebel Óg Cork U-15 hurling development squad

Cork manager Keith Ricken after his side's defeat in the McGrath Cup Final match between Kerry and Cork at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

GAA

Ricken: ‘We do it for the love of it and because we believe we can make a difference’

Kieran Duggan strikes for Ballygiblin against Fullen Gaels in the All Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship semi final at O'Moore Park, Portlaoise Photo by Alf Harvey

GAA

Outstanding Ballygiblin full-forward O’Sullivan has eyes already fixed on Mooncoin

Mark Keane breaks out of defence for Ballygiblin against Simon Wallace, Fullen Gaels in the All Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship semi final at MW Hire O'Moore Park, Portlaoise Photo by Alf Harvey

GAA

Ballygiblin never troubled by Fullen Gaels

The draw for the County Football and Hurling Championships will take place on Tuesday evening. Pictured at the launch of the 2021 Dairygold Co-Op Superstores Midleton with the Sean Og Murphy Cup were Cathal Hickey, Glen Rovers, Cian O’Connor, Erins Own, Alan Connolly, Blackrock, Paul Haughney, Midleton, and Daniel Kearney, Sarsfields.

GAA

Cork County football and hurling championship draws are awaited with interest

Brian Hurley of Cork in action against Jason Foley of Kerry during the McGrath Cup Final at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney. Photo by Sportsfile

GAA

Cork outclassed by Kerry in McGrath Final but Ricken pleased with general performance of inexperienced Rebels

A column by former Milltown / Castlemaine manager in the Irish Examiner this week has kick-started a debate on the nature and future of the Munster club football championships at intermediate and junior level Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

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John Fintan Daly fires the starting pistol on Munster club debate

Ballygiblin's opponents are Manchester outfit Fullen Gaels

GAA

From the industrial heartland of England, Gaels will test Ballygiblin

Business & Farming

The Health and Safety Authority said that the risk of injury to farmers “increases significantly” during calving season.

HSA shines the spotlight on farm safety

The 2021 Ifac Farm Report highlighted a number of key issues including the risk of ‘farmer burnout’, the lack of succession planning and increasing levels of social isolation and loss of community engagement.

Ifac survey set to give an insight into key issues faced by farmers

New legislation will see employees entitled 10-days statutory sick pay by the year 2025

Sick pay costs will come as an ‘unwelcome burden’ to many small businesses

Institute of Directors survey also saw a greater move towards working from home.

More than a third of business leaders don’t see majority of staff back in the workplace before April

Minister of State Damien English TD with Kevin Curran, Head of Enterprise, LEO Cork North & West; Cllr Gillian Coughlan, Mayor of Cork County; Dean Meaney, LEO graduate; Joan Kelleher, business advisor, LEO; Sharon Corcoran, Director of Services Economic Enterprise & Tourism Development, Cork County Council; Ger Hyland, administrator, LEO and Cathal deBaróid, Senior Enterprise Development Officer, LEO at the Local Enterprise Office ,Spa House, Mallow. Photos: Sean Jefferies Photography.

Minister English shown how the LEO is doing the business

Fiona Barry UCC student and scholarship recipient; Professor Thia Hennessy, Dean of the Business School, UCC; Jack Murphy, Founder & MD, FDC Group; Professor John O’Halloran, President UCC; Michael O'Driscoll, MD FDC Financial Services Ltd; Kerry Bryson, Director, Business Development and Advancement and UCC student and scholarship recipient Amy McMahon. Photo: Gerard McCarthy.

Initiative emphasises the ‘power and importance of corporate philanthropy’

Minister Charlie McConaloghue pictured with Kanturk Mart personnel John Cott, Michelle Hallihan, Colette O' Connell, Denis Murphy and Seamus O' Keeffe and Michael Moynihan TD.

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Agriculture minister gets a ‘warm’ welcome in Kanturk

EPA: More milk per cow means more methane emissions

EPA: More milk per cow means more methane emissions

Lifestyle

Exiting a bubble can create new stresses for people. Go slow but face your fears.

Creating your ‘new’ normal post-Covid

"Jack Your Body" - number one in the UK and Ireland in early 1987.

RETRO CHART 1987: First house music No. 1 was a one-hit wonder

We’re allowed touch people again aren’t we? It’s so long since I hugged someone outside my own family, I think I’ve forgotten how.

Premium

Things are getting back to normal, but they’ll never be the same again

Sean Connery and Gert Frobe in Goldfinger (Thursday, ITV4, 8p.m.)

Top films to watch on TV this week

Pete removed a sewing needle from Freddie’s stomach.

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The sewing needle that caused a broken leg

The stunning Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX.

Motoring Extra Mercedes charges to the front

Milk Thistle has been taken as a trusted “folk” supplement for generations.

Naturally Healthy Supplements to help you keep your liver healthy

Lisa Culloty, Noreen Ring, Catriona Kelly and Laura Kelly signed up for the Couch to 5K challenge in Ballydesmond.

Ballydesmond keeping FiT

Obituaries

Tony Barry. Picture by Fennells

Obituary: Tony Barry, former president of Ibec and business insider central to the worldwide success of CRH