YOU know when you put something away carefully and you did such a good job of it that you can’t find it? Well that happened to me this week. It drove me nut, writes Alison O’Connor.

The Minnesota police officer who was acquitted in last year's fatal shooting of black motorist Philando Castile will receive $48,500 as part of a separation agreement.

You could almost hold the school sports for the adjacent St Anthony’s boys’ NS in the back garden of 11 Beechwood Park: it’s that long. 

The Bishop of Cork has urged Traveller families who moved in to a new €5m housing scheme to respect the facility.

A father-of-nine threatened to destroy a new €5 million Traveller housing facility in Cork city and told gardaí: “We’ll make your lives hell in the new site.”

Gardaí are providing round-the-clock security at a Traveller accommodation building site after claims of threats and intimidation directed at workers on the scheme.

A US tour bus careered through a guard-rail along an icy road and several hundred feet down a steep embankment, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said.

Armed gardaí arrested two teenagers on the grounds of a large primary school in Cork yesterday as shocked children looked on.

SOME of the wealthy residents of luxury liner The World were treated to a private reception last night, hosted by the Port of Cork and Cork Chamber, during which the city’s attractions were showcased.

IN the inimitable phrase of former US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, there are ‘known knowns’ in regard to this house at 38 Hartland’s Avenue — and then there are ‘known unknowns.’

Thousands of worshippers have flocked to see the relics of one of Ireland’s best-loved saints.