A Corkman aged 43 was arrested at Cork Airport and charged with carrying out an armed robbery almost 19 years ago at Bandon Rd post office.

30 years ago next Tuesday,an Air India jumbo jet en route from Canada exploded over the West Cork coast, killing all 329 on board. Eddie Cassidy on the tragedy three nations can never forget

The father of a then 14-year-old boy who it is claimed received alleged sub-standard care while in a respite home over 20 years ago has brought a High Court action for damages.

The appointment of the first female chief executive of Cork City Council was finally ratified last night.

History will be made when, for the first time, two women are appointed as bosses of local authorities in Cork and Kerry.

A mother who lost her baby because a hospital sent her on a two hour ambulance journey without a blood transfusion on board has been awarded damages of €170,000.

A man suspected of murdering his ex-lover, her two children and friend allegedly took a kitchen knife from his rented home before the attack, it emerged tonight.

AN investigation by the Health Service Executive (HSE) is under way after hospital patients’ medical details were found dumped in an alleyway.

An investigation is underway following the discovery of more confidential files at an illegal dump near Cork city.

A SENIOR Health Service Executive official has admitted he was “flabbergasted” by the discovery of thousands of patients’ medical notes dumped at a disused landfill and confirmed further excavations are being carried out in the area to see if there are more.

PARENTS whose deceased children had organs removed and whose hospital files are missing are concerned they may have ended up in a landfill site outside Cork city.

Fury and concern were today expressed by doctors and medical groups that confidential medical records were dumped and ended up lying in a field.

THE uncovering of medical records by railroad construction workers in the Glounthaune area between Cork and Midleton yesterday raises serious questions that must be answered.

The final movements of a Polish man set on fire by a gang of youths are being traced by gardaí.

IN THE immediate wake of an advertising campaign being launched to urge drivers to be more careful, six more lives were lost in traffic accidents.

Three people have died today following separate road accidents.

Elective surgery and other elective procedures were postponed on average of 80 times a day across the country during the first six months of this year, according to the Health Service Executive (HSE).

BERTIE WALSH still gets flashbacks to the horrific day 25 years ago when the train he was driving hurtled into the sidings at Buttevant railway station.

THE crash of Air India Flight 182 (20 years ago today) brought my uncle and I, along with so many others, to Cork on a horrible mission on those last, fateful few days of June, 1985.

FOLLOWING a black week on the roads of Kerry, gardaí in the county yesterday urged motorists to drive with extreme care.

NOBODY is asking who stitched up Mickey Martin, because everybody knows who did it. It was Bertie Ahern. “He’s the man,” as Charlie Haughey once said.

Gardaí have released the names of the three people killed in two separate road accidents over the bank holiday weekend.

A crewman has been airlifted from a fishing vessel off the Cork coast.

Gardai in Cork are investigating a serious assault on a young man overnight.