Club Name: Carrigaline Badminton Club
Activity: Badminton
When we meet:
Formal club nights are Wednesdays and Sundays from 8.30pm.
Informally, the club is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Riverstown Badminton Club’s new season will start on Wednesday 1 September, with open nights for new members on Monday 6 and Wednesday 8 September. The sessions will be held at the Community Centre, Watergrasshill, from 8 ‘til late, all levels of players are welcome. If you would like to try a new sport or if you want to return to playing, please come along.

All-Ireland Senior hurling semi-final Sunday Croke Park;
Cork v Kilkenny @ 3.30pm
Cork enter Sundays All-Ireland semi-final, with very few if anyone giving them a chance of winning, some even suggesting the margin of victory will be bigger than the nine points that Kilkenny won by the last time the sides met in the championship.

Cork can look ahead to a box office semi-final against Dublin in a little over two weeks in what some would describe the perfect position. Having lost to Kerry in Munster and being dispatched to the qualifiers, all the pre-season expectation suddenly waned. This expectation was further dented with workmanlike rather than spectacular displays against Cavan and Wexford.

Hello punters! The announcement of, "The horses are now leaving the parade ring" rang out from the public address system at the Cartmel course on August Monday in 1974, and set in motion the final chapters in the amazing betting coup involving a horse called Gay Future, which was organised by the Cork-based builder, Tony Murphy.

Munster rugby has announced the new appointments of former captain Mick Galwey and Erins Owen/Mallow GAA clubman Colm Coakley to their senior management structure while Anthony Foley and Paul McCarthy have had their roles enhanced.

Corkman Graham Boylan has been appointed Director of the prestigious Cage Warriors Fighting Championship (CWFC) in Britain. Boylan, from the northside of Cork takes control of the UK's longest standing Mixed Martial Art (MMA) Event, the CWFC and he is now putting plans in place for CWFC 38, which takes place in London on 1 October.

Cork GAA clubs are invited to take on GAA stars Sean Og O hAilpin and Alan Brogan in the Suremen Challenge this August. The SureMen Challenge tests club player's GAA football and hurling skills and accuracy using the specially created Suremen Challenge Accuracy Screen, a large screen that features holes of varying sizes for precision scoring.

Youghal RFC in partnership with Youghal chamber of Tourism and the Youghal Vintners Association are set to host the 'Tag to Youghal' Festival from 13 to 15 August. The festival kicks off on Friday evening with an open-air concert, Rannach will be live on stage in the market square and afterwards, you can explore the lively bars in Youghal along the festival's 'Pubfest' music and pub trail.

After Robert Heffernan's outstanding fourth place finish in the 20km walk and Olive Loughnane's disappointing withdrawal over the same distance, Cork eyes will turn our sprinters who are in action today. Fresh from qualifying for the 100 metres sprint semi-final, Leevale's Ailis McSweeney will run in the semi-final at 7.20pm this evening and if she is successful in qualifying, will compete in the final also tonight at 8.45pm.