The partner of a prisoner deemed to be at “unprecedented” risk of suicide said she was extremely concerned for his welfare during a prison visit just days before he was found dead in his cell.

The value of business tourism generated by the Cork Convention Bureau (CCB) looks set to break the €10m barrier for the first time this year.

A prison officer enjoying a lunchtime jog stumbled on uneven tarmac and fell under an oncoming lorry, an inquest heard.

GARDAÍ believe a lethal combination of drugs such as heroin, methadone and Xanax caused the death of two men in their 30s in Cork city.

YOU can’t have failed to notice it.

THE inquest into the death of schoolboy Brian Rossiter, who died after being in Garda custody six years ago, has been adjourned indefinitely.

GARDAÍ, investigating the brutal murder of a pensioner in his home in Cork almost a year ago, yesterday renewed their appeal for help yesterday after an inquest.

A JUDICIAL review of the inquest into the death of a 14-year-old boy following overnight detention in Garda custody gets under way in the High Court today.

A 74-YEAR-OLD woman died yesterday after clothes beside a home heater caught fire.

THE inquest into the death of Brian Rossiter, who died two days after falling unconscious while in Garda custody, was further adjourned yesterday following a request from his family to await the publication of an independent inquiry into the circumstances of his death.

THE JURY at a Cork inquest returned a verdict that a 37 year-old mother of three children, who was able to walk out of a psychiatric ward, took her own life.

THE mother of a young Corkman, who died after a struggle with nightclub bouncers, is to stand as an Independent candidate in the local elections.

A NURSE died after her hair and pyjamas caught fire when she lit a cigarette on an electric cooker, an inquest heard yesterday.