A mosque in Tralee has been targeted in a graffiti attack with the words “Islamic State out” as gardaí in Cork confirmed they are treating the appearance of a Nazi slogan over a social welfare office as a potential incitement of hatred incident.

Tragic Timmy Hourihane had a long history of engagement with homeless agencies in recent years and was granted tenancy in a supported social housing unit three years ago.

A former barrister who stole €235,000 from a businessman by pretending to buy him a warehouse in Co Kildare will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

“Mom is asleep and she won’t wake up,” said a nine-year-old boy who had tried to rouse his mother as she sat, seemingly asleep, on the couch in their sitting room.

Gardaí are questioning a man in his 20s after a woman was threatened at knife-point during an attempted car-jacking incident on the southside of Cork city last night.

Plans to double the number of community police in Cork will provide gardaí with the capacity to saturate antisocial blackspots with high-visibility patrols.

The alarm was raised at around 8.30am when smoke was seen billowing from the roof of L’Atitude 51 wine bar on the junction of Anglesea St and Union Quay.

There was a tragic ending to the story of the dolphin rescued in the River Lee last night.

The family of the woman murdered by her boyfriend in a squat in Cork spoke yesterday of their relief at the guilty verdict in the case.

Firefighters in Cork City are set to ballot for industrial action, up to and including strike action, this weekend in a dispute over back-money linked to pay restoration.

A garda was hospitalised following an assault outside Cork District Court, when he was allegedly punched and head-butted by a man just released on bail on a charge of carrying a knife.

FOR 125 years, the Model School situated on Anglesea St in Cork was — as its name suggests — a model for primary education, seeing thousands of children of various religious denominations and social backgrounds go through its doors.

Gardaí are now satisfied that a knife was not produced during an assault on a late-night cinema goer in Mahon Point shopping centre in Cork on Friday night.

Update 1pm: Gardaí say they are now satisfied that a knife was not produced following an alleged assault on a late-night cinema goer in Cork's Mahon Point shopping centre on Friday night.

Drunken revellers know it well but Cork city’s much- loved Berwick Fountain on Grand Parade is getting a facelift.

The number of frontline gardaí based in several Cork City Garda stations is still at 2010 levels despite the arrival of 15 probationary gardaí in two districts this week.

Gardaí need to be trained and monitored in implementing domestic abuse policy and required to keep statistics, Women’s Aid has told the Policing Commission.

A father of four was given a four-month jail sentence yesterday at Cork District after he was caught three times driving around Cork City without insurance.

Gardaí in Anglesea St are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a male (49) on Travers Street, Cork last night at approximately 2.40am.

A 58-year-old man went to take off his trousers and underpants at the scene of a disturbance in Cork City when he shouted abuse at gardaí.

The planned College Green plaza in the heart of Dublin is designed to host public events for up to 15,000 people.

Gardaí say they have no evidence to suggest that a potentially lethal synthetic drug which has been linked to the death of a teenager in Cork two weeks ago is still in circulation.

A man armed with an axe on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital may have been planning to attempt the release of his girlfriend from a unit in the complex.

Brian Veale, aged 31, was yesterday jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court for murdering Graham Johnson in the kitchen of Cork Prison by stabbing him through the heart with a carving knife.

AS THE very last section of shiny, white Techcrete cladding panels swung into place this week on Cork City’s rapidly-emerging €50m Capitol retail and office complex, a pedestrian passerby on Grand Parade observed “ah, the last piece of the jigsaw”.

Firefighters in Cork city and county are to hit new heights — with the world’s highest mountain in their plans.

Tyrone Gaelic football star Cathal McCarron has appeared in court charged in connection with a public order incident on a Dublin street.

Landlords need to change their attitude to tenants in receipt of State rent supports, the housing minister has said.

Tributes have been paid to one of the country’s longest serving firefighters, who is hanging up his helmet after 42 years’ service.

Cork Simon is planning to develop a €1m apartment project in the heart of Cork City to help break the cycle of long-term homelessness.

A mother and her four adult children all pleaded guilty yesterday to various counts of money-laundering and, in one case, a €4,000 Post Office book and €2,000 in cash were found in a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box.

Two gardaí sit in front of a wall of 40 screens, each showing a different window on a weekday morning in Cork.

A young drug addict who was desperate to get some money to buy Christmas presents pulled a knife on shop assistants in two shops in Cork city on the same morning but got away with nothing.

Prison officers escorting a man from Cork District Court observed another man slipping drugs to the prisoner in the courthouse.

Four women and two men from one Cork city family were arrested yesterday, as part of a lengthy investigation, and charged with various counts under money-laundering legislation.

The relocation of Cork City’s court services to accommodate the construction of a €21m courthouse on Anglesea St will commence next week.

A teenager jailed for a year for causing damage at a residential unit for troubled youths ran from the juvenile court yesterday and bolted the long corridor to the door of the courthouse in an effort to escape pursuing gardaí.

A teenager hoping to make “a few bob” before Christmas arranged through the DoneDeal website to sell his Xbox and games to a man in Cork City but the ‘buyer’ and his wife drove off leaving the teenager on the side of the street with no payment.

A 23-year-old man who had denied being involved in a fatal hit and run admitted being responsible for the accident, soon after a guilty verdict was returned against him following a month-long trial.

Private cars could be banned from Cork City’s main street by the middle of next year under radical traffic plans due to be published tomorrow.

Cork’s City Hall will be in lockdown this Monday, with strict access arrangements and tight security for a public meeting of the city council.

A jury was yesterday shown how two sections of a vehicle bumper, found in separate locations near the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident, joined together.

The planned construction of a criminal courthouse at Anglesea St, Cork, will create up to 170 building jobs.

ormer Fianna Fáil councillor and solicitor Gary O’Flynn is to be sentenced in April after confessing to charges of soliciting someone to murder three people — a garda fraud squad, a Revenue Commissioner, and an accountant.