Where once just Bandon was the last outpost beyond Cork’s city limits, a hockey revolution of sorts is spreading south and west of the county, giving optimism for further expansion.

Many rural villages in Co Cork continue to suffer in the aftermath of Storm Ophelia, with some, such as Carrignavar, still without power, water, phones, and internet connection, and hampered by fallen trees blocking roads.

A child abuse victim who received a written apology from the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart has described the Catholic Church’s investigation into the handling of child abuse at the order as “evidence of institutional criminality”.

A long-serving bishop has sparked a storm of controversy over his fitness for the job after revealing he once thought paedophilia was “friendship gone too far”.

A long-serving bishop has sparked a storm of controversy over his fitness for the job after revealing he used to think paedophilia was friendship gone too far.

The HSE investigation into alleged sexual and physical abuse at a former north Cork boarding school is still under way but the HSE cannot say when its conclusions will be made public.

Three men have been arrested in connection with a major investigation into child sex abuse at a Co Cork school.

Gardaí have interviewed 17 men who claim they were sexually abused while attending a college on the outskirts of Cork.

FURTHER complaints about child sex abuse at a Co Cork school are expected to be made to gardaí in the coming days, according to an advocacy group which has held a special advice clinic for alleged victims.

FIVE new allegations of child sexual abuse at a Cork school were received by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the past month, according to the order.

Omagh was united in grief today as a funeral service was held for the family of seven killed in a horrific house fire last month.

The seven victims of the Omagh fire tragedy all died from smoke inhalation, police revealed today.

POSTMORTEMS were being carried out yesterday on the bodies of the family of seven who died in the Omagh house fire tragedy.

Police and firefighters in the North are resuming the search for two bodies at the scene of the house where a family of seven are believed to have perished.

A blaze which is feared to have killed seven members of a family in the North's worst house fire tragedy may have been started deliberately, it emerged tonight.

A couple and their five children were feared dead today in one of the North’s worst ever fire tragedies.

WITH places still up for grabs on the Irish team for next month’s European Indoor Championships in Madrid, interest will centre on the Nenagh Arena over the weekend when the National Senior Championships will be decided.