Gardaí have made two arrests after a man was doused in petrol and set on fire at a house in Cork.

Keith Greaney, 23, was with his girlfriend, Nicole O'Leary, when three men broke into his home, dragged him from his bed, beat him with a car exhaust pipe and attacked him with a machete just before 4am.

Two Corkmen accused of carrying out three robberies, four burglaries, and stealing two cars in Cork and Waterford applied to have all charges struck out because of delay in the case.

Two Cork men were arrested and remanded in custody for a week yesterday on charges of carrying out three robberies, four burglaries, and stealing two cars on Tuesday.

Des O’Sullivan describes one of the highlight auctions of the year with contents from Lotabeg going under the hammer.

The house contents of Lotabeg — a time capsule of long-hidden antique delights — will be auctioned by Mealy’s in Cork next month.

An historic home on Cork’s northside is in line to become a medical clinic after a recent grant of planning permission.

An appeal has been lodged in relation to the recent grant of permission for changes to the Douglas Court Shopping Centre on Cork’s southside.

Justice Minster Alan Shatter has revealed that the controversial freeman of the land trusts are being monitored by the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.

A High Court judge has delivered a withering dismissal of “nonsense” claims that Charles Allen Sr made to a Georgian property signed into his mysterious trust.

Charles Allen Snr has spent most of this year dodging questions, but this morning he will be required to provide answers.

The leader of a mysterious trust, which thousands of debtors believed would protect €2bn worth of assets, has been arrested after moving into one of the properties signed into his organisation.

A jury has returned a verdict of unlawful killing after an inquest heard a man who left a party when a row flared in a Cork City flat was followed onto the street and stabbed in the heart.

A man who left a party after a row flared in a Cork City apartment complex was followed outside and stabbed through the heart.

The heartbroken mother of a 31-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in Cork City broke down in tears at his Requiem Mass and said she would “love and miss him forever”.

A man charged with serious assault arising out of a fatal stabbing in Cork at the weekend has appeared in Cork District Court.

The stabbing of a 31-year-old man in Cork on Friday is now being treated as murder after the victim died in hospital last night.

People on their way home from a night out could hold vital clues to gardaí investigating the murder of a 31-year-old man in a row that spilled into a Cork City street in the early hours of yesterday.

Gardaí have arrested a number of people in Cork and Mayo following a violent bank holiday weekend which saw two men stabbed in unrelated incidents in Cork and a man shot dead in Mayo.

The elegant, 210-year-old Lotamore House on 14 acres with views of Cork city’s marina was a guesthouse for 20 years. It’s price of €1.3m (it previously sold for €3-4m) reflects the cost of upgrading.

Bus Éireann has today outlined alterations to services in Cork during royal visit this Friday, May 20.

A three-bed cottage has plenty of potential for the price, writes Tommy Barker.

JOYRIDING is on the increase in Cork, claimed senior gardaí after a teenager was killed when the stolen car he was driving ploughed into a wall.

A teenager died today after crashing a car which had been reported stolen in Cork city hours earlier.

THE man dubbed The House of Horrors killer took his own life yesterday without ever being convicted of the gruesome murders of three men.

“I can’t wait to dance on his grave with a bottle of champagne. I will be doing it to the murdering scum.”