Jim O’Malley is the author of Walking the Munster Blackwater, an account of his seven-day walk along the famed river. He’s from East Cork, between Killeagh and Youghal, and worked as a teacher in Cork, Dublin and Killorglin. He will read from his book at the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, Lismore, Co Waterford on June 16-19.

Two men are due in court in Dublin this morning, charged under Operation Acer.

Gardaí in Dublin have arrested 26 people as part of a crackdown on criminals committing burglaries.

There were no long faces at Leahy’s Open Farm after a tiny new arrival provided a big gee up to the Cork centre.

A British man accused of plotting a terror attack may have targeted former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, jurors in the partly secret terror trial were told.

What the deuce?

Microsoft is suing Samsung for threatening to stop paying royalties to the software giant for patents behind the Android operating system.

STEPHEN Bernasconi walked into his local shopping centre on Nov 25 intending to buy a laptop. His three-year-old Dell Inspiron had broken down and he wanted something to keep up with gaming.

Gadget fans are gearing up for a second day of exciting product launches in Berlin today.

The man accused of murdering April Jones had viewed and downloaded Facebook photos of the five-year-old in the days before she disappeared, a jury heard today.

Nearly 200 people are being arrested per month as part of a national crackdown on burglaries.

Olympic organisers have launched an investigation after claims that tickets for sponsors have been sold to the public at hiked up prices.

Microsoft has unveiled Surface, a tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad.

Asian stock markets fell today as criticism by ratings agencies sparked scepticism about a historic European Union plan to fix a massive debt crisis by binding member economies closer together.

THE Central Applications Office (CAO) has apologised after posting aptitude test scores for medicine applicants a month early.

Google is postponing the market debut of the first computers running on its highly anticipated operating system by about six months to give its engineers more time to fine-tune the software.

PARENTS investing heavily in a medical career for their child should be wary of private grind schools offering “PreMed” courses that do not equate to the actual first year of a medical degree.

IN response to Dick Barton’s brief assault (Letters, August 22) on the health professions admission test (HPAT) system, I feel it necessary to point out a few facts.

HEARTLESS thieves have stolen a specially adapted laptop for a visually impaired young girl, which was part of an estimated €10,000 haul of valuable items taken in a spate of robberies in a Cork suburb.

Personal computer firm Gateway today agreed to be taken over in a deal worth £352m (€520m) with Taiwan's Acer.

Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba today said a Sony battery pack that had yet to be replaced under a recall burst into flames last month in the UK.

GARDAÍ have described the theft of nearly half a million euro worth of laptops and televisions as a “very professional job”.

French Solheim Cup player Gwladys Nocera posted a four-under-par 68 to take a commanding five-shot lead in the Ladies Spanish Open at Panoramica Golf and Country Club.

Michael Schumacher today rewrote the Formula One record books as he became only the third man in grand prix history to win four world titles.

2001 British Grand Prix results