The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has carried out a series of raids against a Limerick criminal suspected of extorting money from construction companies.

Paul Buckley beat Wayne Callanan in the last shot of their Munster intermediate championship tie at Peake. He led over two bowls of odds, but Callanan finished strongly to force a last shot.

The Criminal Assets Bureau seized 10 vehicles, four Rolex watches, and more than €30,000 in cash in a series of early-morning raids targeting a Cork-based organised crime gang.

They may have relinquished their hold on the team title, but there was ample consolation for East Cork Athletic Club as Tim O’Donoghue powered his way to an impressive victory at the Cork County senior cross-country championships at White’s Cross.

The setting up of a life-saving community first responder (CFR) group on the outskirts of Cork City could become a template for the roll-out of similar groups across the country.

A four-month suspended prison sentence was imposed on a Nigerian national remanded in custody for the past month because of a mystery over his identity.

Gardaí arrested a man at a car valeting premises in Cork for having no passport or national ID yesterday.

The first ever World Pre-eclampsia Day takes place today, highlighting a condition that kills 100,000 pregnant women and 500,000 babies every year globally, writes Ailin Quinlan

Launched in 1998 as a small but perfectly formed vehicle for the masses, the Focus was an immediate success, being named European Car of the Year.

Today is the day to visit the Open Garden at Reggie and Cynthia Browne’s Oak Farm Estate, Carrigadrohid, Macroom, Co Cork in aid of Marymount Hospice from 2pm to 6pm.

A cleaning woman working at a number of houses in Co Cork admitted burgling four of them yesterday and in one house stealing €5,725 worth of jewellery.

A couple have had their Christmas "ruined" after a hotel cancelled their New Year’s Eve wedding renewal days before the event.

Think Ring, think Pele, think Kyle, think Nicklau — it is in this pantheon of greats that Mick Barry rightfully belongs. The greatest road bowler in the history of the sport died at the weekend after a debilitating illness. The Waterfall man was 95.

GARRETSTOWN WOODS AND ANCIENT DEER WALL

On a dank, grey evening, when even the rain couldn’t fall with any gusto, hundreds of diehard Cork fans slipped on their beloved red jerseys again and headed for the city centre to cheer on the boys for one last time this year.

On the day they buried their 5-year-old son, the Cork couple whose little boy died after a fireplace fell on him have said “it will be a long time, if ever, before we come to terms with what has happened”.

An engineer’s report will play a key role in establishing how a little boy died in a freak fireplace accident in his family home.

A 5-year-old boy died after a fireplace fell on him in the family home yesterday — the second fatal accident of its kind involving a child in the Cork area in recent years.

Cork U21 hurling boss Ger Fitzgerald has revealed that he will have to plan without teenage hurling sensation Darren Sweetnam for their Munster Hurling Championship opener against Tipperary due to a clash with the Leaving Certificate.

A Cork company, Know Thy Place, has produced a commemorative Titanic chart telling the story of the ill-fated luxury liner's connections with Ireland.

A YOUNG Irishman’s poignant message in a bottle which he threw from the deck of the doomed Titanic has gone on public display for the first time in almost a century.

THERE’S loads to see, and lots of space to play around with, at Claydon Hall, a seven-bedroomed family home in a rural setting just north of Cork city.

GORGEOUS gardens that includes mature herbaceous borders, a bountiful veg patch, a mini tennis court and enough grass for a game of footie – perfect.

THE crowd was so big for the auction of a 99-acre farm last Thursday that it was moved to the hotel venue’s ballroom. According to Dan Fleming of Fleming Auctioneers, there were well over 100 at the Vienna Woods Hotel for the sale of the farm at Ballinvriskig, White’s Cross, Cork

Gardaí have seized what is thought to be heroin worth approximately €150,000 and cocaine worth €15,000.

A SWEET dormer bungalow with half an acre is on offer at White’s Cross, Cork, with a reasonable €450,000 guide price.

Cork firm Quality Plastics, which has plants in White’s Cross and Mallow in Co Cork, has been sold for a figure believed to be in the region of €30m.

HE called it a model farm in 2005 and this time round, quality hasn’t changed, but quantity has, for auctioneer Christy Buckley.

THE SITE’S the thing here: high up on the north-east of Cork city and with views for miles, this 1.2 acre property at Laherdane, White’s Cross, has great gardens.

ANGRY parents in a Cork village have said their children’s lives will be put at risk by drivers trying to dodge paying tolls on the Fermoy bypass after it opens on October 2.

BUILDERS donated €500,000 to Cork’s Simon community yesterday - the single biggest donation the organisation has received in its 30-year history.

GARDAÍ admitted yesterday to being baffled by the lack of information coming from the public in relation to the hijacking of a 25-year-old woman’s car and her unlawful imprisonment.

GARDAÍ believe they know some of the route travelled by a young woman who was abducted by a man on Monday in Co Cork.

SECURITY sources believe a homemade grenade found in Cork may have been manufactured by criminals.

PROXIMITY to Cork city, plenty of space to rear a family in, and a decent rural site combine to make Tailte, in White’s Cross, a hot property.

NEW co-ops leader Donal Cashman has promised an active shareholding policy, to ensure that those who are actively trading with their co-ops have control of their future direction.

ON a day at Killarney Races when temperatures were in the early twenties and ices and soft drinks were in huge demand, children took over from their parents in the fashion stakes.