A former garda faces up to 10 years in prison for stealing thousands of euro from his colleagues and an 82-year-old woman.

EARLY start last Saturday morning, to get the City Special edition out on the final whistle of Ireland-Wales at the Rugby World Cup.

WE’VE had a lot of dark clouds of late, very little silver lining, so Enda Cavanagh’s transformation into a full-time multiple award-winning photographer makes for a very uplifting tale.

CORK’s newest hotel – the River Lee Hotel – is also one of the city’s most established.

A NUMBER of Cork city’s major hotels and guesthouses had to close or turn customers away as a result of last week’s floods.

ANOTHER big hotel group has withdrawn from Limerick with the decision of the Marriott Hotel group to discontinue its brand name at a city centre property.

AT last, some good news in these recessionary times.

LIMERICK is to lose one of the world’s most famous hotel brands.

A GROUP of more than 50 casual employees in Jury’s Hotel had a claim over service charges dismissed yesterday on the grounds that industrial relations problems were not a matter for the courts.

DEVELOPER Owen O’Callaghan has paid between €8 million and €10m for a riverside Cork site by the Opera House, for a retail, office and apartment scheme.

LIMERICK’S burgeoning property development scene got another €75 million fillip yesterday with the announcement of a new hotel, apartment and conference centre on the site of the former Jury’s Hotel.

CROKE PARK chiefs will meet with the local Residents’ Association next month to assess the findings of an independent body which has been monitoring relations between the two groups this year.