The rebuilding of Limerick City centre advanced to a new stage yesterday with the commencement of the planning process for another huge segment of the urban renewal plan.

Our reporters have been out around Cork city and county recording the aftermath of Storm Frank. Here's what they captured.

An actor in the RTÉ crime drama Love/Hate actor must finish community service work before he can be considered for the same sanction for storing €2,500 worth of cannabis, a court heard.

Flood-hit traders in Cork City, who are bracing for more misery tonight, have pleaded with the Government to fast-track the delivery of a multi-million flood defence plan.

Limerick City of Culture has been hit by new controversy after an artist was booted out of a studio after creating a slogan in support of the project’s former artistic designer, Karl Wallace.

It’s sandbags at the ready in Cork city again after the local authority once more warned of tidal flooding today and tomorrow.

Parts of Cork City flooded last night as Met Éireann issued weather warnings for several parts of the country.

“A classic case of city thuggery” was how a sentencing judge yesterday described the actions of two thieves.

Two young men who were attacked and robbed in Cork City centre were terrified of being thrown into the river and yesterday one of the attackers was jailed for two years.

THE planned development of an addiction treatment centre on a remote part of the rugged Rathlin Island, off the coast of Co Antrim, will be a case of bringing it all back home to her father’s birthplace for one of Ireland’s top performers.

LIMERICK city centre has received another boost with confirmation yesterday that work on the massive Opera Centre development is to get underway in the new year.

LIMERICK is set to play host to a €200 million shopping centre that will be one of the biggest city-centre complexes in the country.