For years, my friends and I have line-fished on Beara Peninsula, practising ‘catch and release’, but stocks are being ruinously depleted by gillnetting from boats, says Ashley Hayden.

Over €1.2m in fines was doled out to some 420 taxpayers for failing to file returns, cigarette smuggling and selling, and for pub licensing offences.

THE owner of the main bar at the centre of the so-called ‘CIT Christmas Day’ declared yesterday that his premises would no longer have anything to do with the event.

GARDAÍ and residents in Bishopstown, Co Cork, have objected to the liquor licence being renewed for two bars in the area unless the bars’ owners gave undertakings not to have anything to do with the so-called CIT Christmas Day.