Shocked locals struggled to comprehend how a promising athlete and engineering student had his life cut short in a "senseless, heartbreaking" incident.

A woman who slipped on a patch of ice in a car park in Tipperary fracturing her ankle has lost her action for damages before the High Court.

Olivia Kelleher rounds up the start times for the parades in Cork and further afield. 

People have been paying tribute to the three people who died during storm Ophelia yesterday.

Gardaí arrested two people in Cork yesterday morning in connection with a garda investigation into an organised crime group and serious assaults in the citywrites Liz Dunphy of the Evening Echo.

A new support centre is being planned for cancer sufferers and their families in the east Cork-west Waterford region.

All-Ireland winning Tipperary hurler Lar Corbett and international boxing star Matthew Macklin have set their sights on purchasing Hayes Hotel in Thurles — the birthplace of the GAA.

A house of many sides, literally, Tommy Barker enthuses about this unique, south city dote

A WELL-KNOWN building contractor died after a fall from scaffolding he’d erected for a maintenance job on a three-storey building in East Cork.

GARDAÍ were pelted with beer bottles and had their patrol car rammed four times during a high speed chase in Cork city which lasted nearly 45 minutes.

BACK in 2002, this house at No 4 St Stephen’s Place, Friar Street in Cork city, went on the market at €220,000 and sold for somewhere around €260,000 – today it’s up for sale again at €270,000.

THE lazy, hazy days of summer are on their way – and what better way to spend a summer’s evening than stretched out on the Co Cork coast listening to a mini funk orchestra that counts President Barack Obama, David Byrne and Q-Tip among its fans.

TWO men were remanded in custody last night after being charged in connection with two weekend burglaries in which one man was tied up and another attacked.

THE corner site at 8 Deerpark Court, off Cork’s Friar Street and within an easy stretch of the city centre, has a whole lot to recommend it.

A controversial plan to build an 83-bed hotel and office blocks on a convent site near the Rock of Cashel has been refused planning permission, it emerged today.

OPPONENTS of a planned five-storey hotel in Cashel on a site previously earmarked for a town park are holding a public meeting tonight in a bid to step up their campaign.

A CO Tipperary grandmother claims she saw an apparition of Pope John Paul II while at the hairdressers last Saturday.

Three armed and masked raiders have escaped with up to £2,000 after holding up a bookmaker’s in Thurles, Co Tipperary, this afternoon.