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Huge wait for x-ray results

PATIENTS with heart problems could be waiting up to a month to get x-ray results because there is no full time radiologist at Mallow General Hospital. GPs in North Cork may now have to wait several week before they can diagnose patients with recurring heart problems when the results should be available within days.

Tackling a tough waterfall descent in the Ballyhoura Beast challenge.

Running with 'the beast' in Ballyhoura

By SHARON WHELTON

CYCLING across some of Ireland's toughest terrain, abseiling down waterfalls and kayaking through raging rivers might not be everyone's idea of fun but that is exactly how dozens of Ireland's top athletes will do when they take on the Beast of Ballyhoura this weekend.

IKEA vague on Mallow store plans

By LOUISE MCCARTHY

A MULTINATIONAL company downplayed plans to move to Mallow in the near future amidst mounting speculation.

Pothole solution: 'let us fix them ourselves'

By TRISH O'DEA

CORK'S County Manager was urged this week to provide community groups with tarmac so that they can fill the potholes themselves.

Waste collection to be privatised

By BILL BROWNE bbrowne@corkman.ie

CORK County Council has been slammed after it emerged that the local authority is set to privatise its loss making refuse collection service.

Teagasc office closures 'are an attack on rural Ireland'

By TRISH O'DEA

AT a time when farmers need more, rather than less, support, Teagasc has closed nearly half of their district offices and, in many cases, given very little or no warning to their clients.

Rebels in a 'Festy' drive to Mongolia

By MARIA HERLIHY

A MALLOW man is among a group of Rebel warriors driving a staggering 10,000 miles from London to Mongolia in a Ford Fiesta in aid of the children's charity Barretstown.

No evidence against man who was only 'minding the house'

A MAN who was charged with trespassing after Gardaí found him in a Kanturk house told a judge this week that he was merely "minding the house."

Teen actor prepares for Sweeney Todd role

By LOUISE MCCARTHY

A NORTH Cork teenager will star in a popular musical thriller at the Everyman Palace Theatre this August.

Fears Cork may lose broadband improvements

By TRISH O'DEA

MINISTER Ryan is the Arthur Daley of the government, a Cork councillor said this week, in response to the suggestion that major broadband improvements may only benefit the Dublin/Belfast corridor.

Charleville man claims he is living in fear in prison

A CHARLEVILLE man, with 53 previous convictions, is living in fear in prison and has to be locked up, alone, in his cell, for 23 hours each day, Judge Mary O'Halloran was told at Kilmallock District Court.

Corkmen return from work in Holland on world's biggest wind farm project

TWO North Cork electricians had to embrace from minus 18 degrees Celcius just before Christmas to a searing 36 degrees in July as they worked in Holland on the largest off-shore windfarm in the world

Kiskeam's Fitzgerald restored to minor team

KISKEAM'S Daniel Fitzgerald has regained his place on the Cork minor team to face Armagh in Sunday's AllIreland quarter-final and will captain the team in Croke Park. Fitzgerald missed the games against Clare and Tipperary through injury but made his presence felt in the Munster Final win over Kerry after being sprung from the bench for the last quarter, and he will be fit enough to start on Sunday.

Fermoy and 'Franc' — a match made in heaven?

FERMOY town will be in festive mood this week end as RTE celebrity Bainisteoir Peter Kelly of "Weddings by Franc" fame, will be introducing his Fermoy football team to a fanfare of trumpets at a gala reception to be held on Ashe Quay on this Friday evening at approx 7pm. Prior to this, Fermoy Town Council, who have got behind this event in a big way, will have Ashe Quay closed for the afternoon to allow for a hell of a big street party to go ahead with music and food etc available all afternoon.

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