Two separate winners travelled to National Lottery headquarters in Dublin today to pick up their winning cheques.

Three wildlife species under threat in Ireland are fitting subjects of the annual autumn series of talks in Killarney National Park, writes Donal Hickey.

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County councillors are to ask the heads of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to visit North-West Cork in a push to have more industries located there after a factory closure in Kanturk.

Lack of infrastructural investment is impacting on the “vitality and viability” of rural communities in Co Cork, a senior planning official has warned.

Council officials have been accused of ignoring villages in north-west Cork, which “are dying on their feet” because they are not being included in ambitious plans to tackle the housing crisis.

Cork County Council is to write to the European Commission seeking an investigation into why the government continues to stall on releasing Leader funding for rural development projects.

Fenit Harbour in Kerry was deemed the best place to land guns from the German ships, and it was decided that the rail network would be the best means of distribution of the weapons in the South-west, says Niall Murray

A 42-year-old father of four died from multiple injuries after being struck by a vehicle in a hit and run accident while cycling, a court heard yesterday.

It’s gas! A pungent smell wafting around an area sparked a major alert and resulted in a surprise find — a cannabis grow-house.

Gardaí are carrying out a series of anti-drugs operations in North Cork as part of a follow up to seizing a consignment of suspected mephedrone.

The section of river where 17-year-old Christopher O’Sullivan got into difficulties and later died has been used by local swimmers for generations.

Munster farmers gained some relief from the fodder crisis with the arrival of 75 trucks from Britain, delivering hay to Dairygold Co-Op at the weekend.

Gardaí have seized drugs with an estimated street value of €170,000 following a raid on a family home on the Cork-Kerry border.

Gardaí have thanked the neighbours of a 91-year-old man for their help after the pensioner was forcibly restrained and robbed in his home near a village in Cork.

Four Kerry children are spending their first Christmas without their father, who was killed in a hit and run accident close to his home on July 1.

Hundreds of Cork County Council tenants will see their rents more than double as the local authority moves to standardise a countywide minimum rate.

Pleas were renewed yesterday for information that could lead to the arrest of a driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Co Kerry.

The family of a Cork toddler who died in a crash that also killed his unborn sister and left his parents fighting for their lives have spoken of their heartbreak.

A gang has been using a simple but effective method of “fishing out” money from donation boxes embedded in church walls.

SEVEN horses surrendered yesterday under Cork city’s first “horse amnesty” will probably be put down.

THE €33m bid by Kerry Group for Newmarket Co-op is expected to be approved by the society’s shareholders at a special general meeting in Meelin, tonight.

THE global food giant, Kerry Group, confirmed yesterday it had made a €33 million offer for Newmarket Co-op Creameries.

DAIRY industry leaders have agreed to assess their options for the future, the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) has confirmed.

PATRICK (Paddy) Ring — who along with his brother, Donal, helped build up an operation that has become the country’s biggest manufacturer of windows and doors — has died.

A SPATE of business collapses around North Cork has left the county council with a €3.6 million rates shortfall.