Cork · Sports & events

Hurling and Gaelic football in a rebuilt forty-thousand-seat stadium by the river. Championship runs spring to midsummer; league games from January.

League of Ireland football on a summer calendar, February to November, at a tight three-sided ground where the noise has nowhere to go.

An early-summer race that loops the island city and the docks, with a half and a relay alongside. Flat, and easy to watch from anywhere central.

Road bowling — hurling an iron ball along country lanes — still draws Sunday crowds in the county, and rowing regattas run on the Lee through summer.