Mel Forde, Fionn McGrath, Tim O’Mahony and Joanne Hegener  pupils of Bruce College, Cork City,  give their impressions of Irish paper 2. Video by David Keane. Irish Examiner.

One of the most promising distance runners in the country, Kevin Mulcaire, was the star of the Aviva/Munster Schools’ Track and Field Championships at Cork IT on Saturday.

Exceptional 800m running proved the highlight of the first day’s South Munster Schools’ Track & Field which took place in sunny conditions at Cork IT track.

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.

A MAN in his 70s was arrested yesterday by gardaí investigating a fatal accident that claimed the life of a 19-year-old trainee hairdresser.

RESIDENTS will target a contentious city council meeting tonight which looks set to give the green light to Cork’s first wet shelter for homeless street drinkers.

ONE of the country’s first so-called ‘cram’ secondary schools, Bruce College yesterday told students and parents in Limerick that it is closing.

The ambulance that took Brian Murphy to hospital after he had been violently beaten outside the Burlington Hotel was slow to take him away because they thought he was intoxicated with drink, a witness has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.