The brutal death of Frankie Dunne, whose dismembered body was found dumped behind a derelict house in Cork just over a week ago, is incomprehensible, wrong, pointless and without justification, mourners at his funeral Mass were told.

The priest officiating at the funeral of a man who was fatally stabbed on the street last week has questioned why people carry knives when they result in so much tragedy.

A building facilities company has been told planning permission needs to be obtained for it to continue using the grounds of a GAA club in Cork city as a car park for its staff.

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.

The 40-year-old woman found dead in a doorway on a Cork city centre street has been remembered as a “kind, nurturing lady”, who died in the same spot where her aunt passed away seven years ago.

Tributes have been paid following the death of renowned historian Sean Pettit, a specialist in the history of Cork.

It was a simple and dignified ceremony, straight-forward and to the point with little or no fuss, one he himself would have been proud of.

Only a handful of people know the existence of the only burial plot in Ireland of two of the Air India disaster victims, and one man has lovingly tended it for 30 years.

Dara Ó Briain took time out from tickling the funny bones of Cork audiences to tickle his own fancy in a visit to UCC campus today.

Gardaí have ruled out a link between a shooting on the southside of Cork City early yesterday, and a family feud elsewhere on the southside.

The death has occurred of Josephine O’Herlihy, a popular and well-respected Cork solicitor, who had offices in South Bank, Crosses Green.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was among the substantial crowd of mourners who last night attended the removal of Margaret Barry, wife of former tánaiste and minister for foreign affairs, Peter Barry.

The death has occurred of Margaret Barry, the wife of former tánaiste and minister for foreign affairs Peter Barry and the mother of Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune.

Family and friends of Deirdre Lynch made her funeral Mass into a heartwarming celebration of a girl described as “a wonderful, shining light”.

A 16-year-old Co Cork boy who died suddenly while playing a schools’ match has been described as a “an extraordinarily skilled sportsman” by his principal.

The death of a 16-year-old schoolboy while playing a match yesterday brings to two the number of young people who died suddenly in Cork over the past few days.

Hundreds of people from farming and GAA circles in Tipperary are due to attend the funeral Mass today of a boy who died after being hit by a trailer.

VIRTUALLY the entire Mariners Hall apartment complex in Cork city’s Skehard Road/Mahon area is for sale as a single unit.

A proud father of a 17-year-old student killed in a horrific car crash moved mourners to tears at his funeral when he spoke in glowing terms of his “innocent, quiet, shy boy” who had “left an indelible mark” on his family.

The woman who died in a head-on road collision on Monday night will be buried with her unborn daughter today following a funeral Mass in the church where she got married just last year.

THE death has taken place of a top Irish sportsman, former Irish cricketer and Munster rugby player Jim Kiernan (80), following a short illness.

THE Lord Mayor of Cork has appealed for the family of a man killed in a violent feud to be given the space to mourn at his funeral Mass, which takes place this morning.

HEARTBROKEN Donncha O’Callaghan lined out for Ireland in New Zealand today just a day after being told his beloved grandmother had died.

GARDAÍ in Cork city have renewed their appeal for two men to come forward in connection with the fatal fire in Mahon that killed a woman and her five-year-old nephew.

IT must have been not only tragic but bewildering for the grandparents of Ryan O’Dwyer Hayes, the five- year-old boy killed with his aunt, Helena, in Cork at the weekend and buried yesterday at St Michael’s cemetery in Mahon.

GARDAÍ have issued a further appeal for help with their investigations into a fire which killed a woman and her five-year-old nephew, in Cork city last weekend.

A CITY council is to introduce strict restrictions on the size of headstones in its cemeteries following the furore surrounding a huge monument erected to a well-known horse dealer.

GARDAÍ are expected to maintain a discreet presence at the funeral today of one of Cork’s leading drug dealers, murdered in a gangland style shooting at the weekend.

THE investigation into the Air India crash is ongoing and arrests may yet be made, according to the man leading the hunt for terrorists who blew up flight 182, exactly 20 years ago today.