The father of a man killed in a suspected hit-and-run last night said: "I would love to see the person who did this caught."

The 47-year-old owner of a head shop which sold a substance which had been placed on the controlled drugs list has been given a five-month jail sentence.

Vandals attacked a plaque erected to a garda killed in the line of duty and then dumped it outside his girlfriend’s house.

Cork’s city manager has been asked to tackle parking problems outside a bingo hall.

AN action arising from Garda actions against a bingo hall in Cork city has been adjourned on terms that include gardaí having to give 24-hour notice to the operator of any likely district court warrants.

An action arising from a Garda "raid" on a bingo hall in Cork city has been adjourned on terms including that if a Garda Supt wants to seek warrants against the bingo operator, he has to do so on notice to the operator.

HOW the state care system failed vulnerable children has been exposed in a series of documents which show how teenagers were raped having absconded from care and suffered serious injury in care facilities.

TWO sisters who were inseparable in life died together early yesterday in a fire that gutted the three-storey public house they ran in Killorglin, Co Kerry.

MOTHER, sister, uncle, daughter, brother, father — signs representing the 279 people who died in traffic accidents last year were carried through a west Cork town in a silent march yesterday by hundreds of black-clad convent schoolgirls.

A VERDICT of “unascertained death” has been recorded after a bar manager was found dead following after a golf outing.

Nine days after Robert Holohan went missing, his family face the horror of being told he will not be coming home, writes Dan Buckley.

MORRIS TRIBUNAL witness Adrienne McGlinchey complained today of the hounding she received at the hands of an internal garda investigation of alleged improper policing activities in Co Donegal during the 1990s.

A VITAL witness at the Morris Tribunal’s investigation into alleged garda corruption yesterday told of “the most terrible time in my life” — the period when she claims to have been blackmailed by a detective into acting like a terrorist.

MYSTERY still surrounds the cause of a fire which claimed the lives of three members of a family in Castlemaine, Co Kerry, early on Sunday.