14 March 2022 By Roger Kennedy roger@TheCork.ie County Cork produces the festival’s top victors How do you pick a Cheltenham winner? Study the form, check the odds, cross your fingers, and hope for the best? BoyleSports believes there could be another way. In-depth research of every jockey who has placed first in a race at the Cheltenham... Read More
14 March 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Aintree Grand National winning jockey and Audi Naas performance ambassador, Rachael Blackmore joins Driving Progress host, academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri in the final episode of the podcast series. From humble beginnings to top of the world, Blackmore discusses winning the Aintree Grand National, being crowned the BBC... Read More
12 March 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork’s Rockbán Ladies Football and Camogie Club is to receive €5,000 funding under this year’s Texaco Support for Sport initiative hosted and organised by Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited, the company that markets fuel in Ireland under the Texaco brand. Under the scheme – similar to that which proved... Read More
9 March 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie With only 10 days to go until the fast and flowing roads of West Cork come alive with the returning high-speed excitement of the Clonakilty Park Hotel West Cork Rally, Cork Motor Club are delighted to present this years Seeded Entry List, itself absolutely chock full of the... Read More
8 March 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A celebrity run gym in a landmark building Former Munster & Irish international rugby star, Hell Week contestant, RTÉ pundit and all-round fitness fanatic Peter Stringer, along with the current Irish Amateur Golf Champion Peter O’ Keeffe and businessman Paul Buckley, officially opened the doors to Cork’s newest... Read More
8 March 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Sports With the 2022 club football season already under way, next weekend attention turns to hurling as the RedFM Cork County hurling leagues commence. This year’s leagues, the first since 2019 to be unaffected by Covid-19, but also the first to take place in the new split-season era,... Read More
8 March 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Kearys Motor Group has announced a new 3-year sponsorship deal with Cork Camogie Kearys’ sponsorship has released a new Cork Camogie jersey in collaboration with O’Neills and will support the Cork Camogie Senior, Intermediate, Minor and U16 camogie teams for the next three years as well as getting... Read More
6 March 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie 13-Team Accumulator Lands Five-Figure Sum A punter in County Cork is toasting a five-figure windfall after a football wager paid off spectacularly at the weekend. The anonymous winner struck a confident €20 bet in their local BoyleSports shop on thirteen teams in action and picked the winner in... Read More
4 March 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Pipe Band Members of the Carrigaline Pipe Band practice every Monday and Friday in their own dedicated ‘Pipe Band Hall’, behind the Catholic Church, from 7.00 pm in preparation for St Patrick’s Day performances. The band will play at the annual Mass for their deceased members on St Patrick’s... Read More
1 March 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie West Cork side Carbery Rangers reached the final of the Dermot Earley Cup, the senior men’s competition at the Lidl Comórtas Peile Páidi Ó Sé, the famed adult men’s and ladies club tournament which took place all over the Dingle Peninsula last weekend. The West Cork side had... Read More
28 February 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork City FC is delighted to announce Audivox Hearing as a men’s first team partner on a multiyear deal. The partnership will see Audivox Hearing appear on the bottom back of the men’s first team playing shirts. Audivox is a Cork based, Irish owned and family run business... Read More
27 February 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork’s RedFM recently announced that World Champion racewalker and Olympic Bronze Medallist Rob Heffernan was swapping the roads for the airwaves and joining their breakfast show – his first show is today! “Rob will be walking side by side with breakfast show stalwart, comedian Laura O’Mahony, along with... Read More