With time ticking down to Cork City FC’s return to Premier Division soccer in a fortnight’s time, the side is plotting a steady course. There’s an air of good-humoured calm, combined with a cat-like awareness of the pitfalls of excessive enthusiasm, that’s almost graceful to behold.
Whatever Cork City FC’s ‘x-factor’ is, it’s...
Cork Women's FC continued their winning streak last weekend with a 2-0 victory against Shamrock Rovers at home setting them up nicely for their next encounter against Peamount United in Dublin this Sunday.
It was Dave Bell's side's first victory at CIT, but they had to work to defend it, with an especially active outing for goalkeeper Amanda Budden. Little room for complacency,...
A exciting international cast is shaping up to participate in Ireland's most prestigious regatta, Cork Week, taking place at the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Crosshaven, this July 7th-13th.
Among the big names so far confirmed are Mike Bartholomew from Capetown, South Africa in his Mills 40 Tokoloshe. Bartholomew revealed he was participating due to Cork Week's relaxation of rules...
Cork Simon’s forthcoming annual ball will serve as an exciting curtain-raiser for the London Olympic Games this summer as well as raising much needed funds for the homeless.
The ball, at Fota Island Resort on Friday March 2nd, will have a ‘Sports & Olympics’ theme, with golf pro John McHenry and Munster rugby star John Ryan volunteering their time for the...
Angler's Rest proprietor Denis O’Mahony Jr is putting the finishing touches to a spectacular pro darts event at the pub next weekend, which he is billing as the world's biggest professional darts exhibition.
With a bill headed by eight pro darts players, the Denis O'Mahony Darts Memorial (named in honour of Denis's late father) will be held in a marquee on the grounds of...
Cork GAA club delegates this week unanimously voted down the possibility of introducing payments for inter-county managers.
At a meeting on Tuesday, delegates backed a motion by the executive of the Cork county board to support an option flagged by GAA Director-General Padraic Duffy in his discussion paper on the issue, which reinforces the GAA’s policy on amateurism.
...Macroom runner Ciarán Ó Lionáird went the distance to win the men’s mile at the Boston Indoor Grand Prix last weekend.
In a high quality field that included Mo Farah from Britain and Galen Rupp from the US, Ó Lionáird won the event in a personal best time of 3:56.01.
Before a packed audience at the Reggie Lewis Track Facility in Roxbury...
Irish cycling legend, Sean Kelly, took time out of his busy schedule recently to launch the Donal Crowley Memorial Cycle in Blarney on Sunday February 19th.
Organised by Blarney Cycling Club with the Rebel Wheelers, a...
A sports team at University College Cork is going ‘slap shot’ in its bid to make a mark in the fastest growing sport in Ireland, Inline Hockey.
Also known as roller hockey, inline hockey is played indoors on roller blades, with teams of four players and one goalie skating fast and hard against...
There’s two key fixtures for the Cork senior GAA teams this weekend, with the senior footballers lining out against Down in round two of the Allianz League this Sunday at 2pm in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
And the starting senior hurling squad announced for the semi-final of the Waterford Crystal Cup in Templemore this Sunday at 1pm, sees a number of changes from the previous...
Mallow-based girls Isabel and Claire O’Leary are a true ‘sister act’ of the future of Irish skiing.
At the tender age of 12 years, Isabel has just returned from the slopes at Andorra, and her first competition representing Ireland at the prestigious international underage competition, the Borrufa Cup.
As if that were not enough prestige for one household,...
Pre-teen Cork ski sensation, Isabel O’Leary, has returned from her first stint representing Ireland at the Borrufa Cup international children’s competition in Andorra, having placed herself among the elite of the world’s future stars of the sport.
And now, with big ambitions for the future, young Isabel (12) has her eyes firmly on competing in the Junior Winter...
It may be only February, but Cork bodybuilder Jim Benskin from Midleton is already getting into shape for the Mr Ireland Body Building Championship at the end of October.
A man with a mission, Jim has begun his diet and training regime for the event, which will be held on October 27th in the Helix, Dublin City University.
“The Mr Ireland competition is the one that all...
It’s been a good week for Cork football, with the senior squad capturing its sixth McGrath Cup, and UCC progressing to the quarter-finals of the Sigerson Cup.
The senior Cork side had a 0-6 to 0-13 victory over Tipperary at the weekend, with keeper Ken O’Halloran making three saves and maintaining the margin of victory against a late rally by Tipp.
At the Mardyke on...
This summer will be eventful for local sailing enthusiasts, with Cork Week from July 7th-13th followed by the Atlantic Challenge Bantry Bay Gig World Championship, to be hosted in West Cork from July 16th-29th.
The biennial Atlatnic Challenge is a spectacular test of seamanship, in which replicas of the ‘Bantry Bay Longboat’, the French naval vessel washed ashore during the...
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