Units in one of Cork’s best modern developments are for sale for the very first time, writes Tommy Barker.

Global carmakers as diverse as Japan’s Nissan, Germany’s Mercedes Benz-maker Daimler, and British-based Aston Martin, in new warnings about sales slowdowns, showed the huge challenges facing the industry as they try to buy time to invest in the new generation of electric and self-driving cars.

Humans rail against change, yet change is probably the single most constant in all of our lives. Maybe not major change, but minute-by-minute change. We hate it

Sixty-five cars were seized last year for not paying Dublin’s M50 toll.

Ireland’s biggest ever Euromillions winner, Dolores McNamara is “heading down to the pub” today in her quest for justice over a road traffic accident.

We take a look at the new Mercedes Benz E-Class and see if it’s the sort of car you would want to buy. 

Crime bosses are increasingly hiding wealth in the form of cash and financial investments, rather than traditional physical assets like luxury vehicles and properties, according to the Criminal Assets Bureau.

A man murdered in a daylight shooting in Dublin city centre has been named locally as David Douglas.

Many major car manufacturers are selling diesel cars that fail to meet EU air pollution limits, a study has found.

IN INDIA, where private drivers are already a middle class staple, one man has created an entirely new category of executive wheels: The mobile office.

Roi Des Francs gave Willie Mullins a third successive win (and a fourth in five years) in the Grade 3 Surehaul Mercedes Benz Novice Hurdle in Clonmel yesterday, the centrepiece of another treble for the champion trainer.

The Eddie Harty-trained Dalmatia should prove tough to beat in the Kilsheelan Mares Maiden Hurdle on today’s rescheduled card in Clonmel.

The head of an Irish online anti-fraud firm, which has the potential to become a multi-billion euro business, has been named MSL Cork business person of the year.

FEW teams marry style and substance like ‘Die Mannschaft’, writes Brendan O'Brien.

THE arrival of a new S-Class from Mercedes Benz is something akin to the discovery of a new planet in our constellation or the appearance in our skies of a new comet; it keeps us all — well, some of us anyway — agog with expectation and excitement.

A Swedish journalist has been shot to death while he was talking to a translator on a street in Kabul, the second killing in two months to strike foreigners in an affluent and well-guarded area of the Afghan capital.

A two-volume edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, personally signed by Hitler, is set to be auctioned online on Thursday.

A 30-year-old man charged with arson offences in West Cork, including damaging fire service training vehicles on two separate occasions, has been remanded on bail.

A director of a Kerry bus firm was yesterday convicted in relation to an oil spill that was inadvertently a major factor in All-Ireland winners Clare’s first senior hurling win of the year over Cork.

Dan and Linda Kiely, founders of Cork-based business outsourcing company Voxpro that plans to double its workforce over the next two years, have been awarded MSL Cork Business People of the Year 2013.

Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood’s wife of 17 years has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, a court spokeswoman said.

Professor Green has cancelled his forthcoming UK tour.

It was a lethal gadget right out of a James Bond movie: Remote-controlled gun barrels rigged behind the rear license plate of a car that spray bullets at an unsuspecting target.

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has made billions out of the sport, but now faces the greatest test of his life off the racing circuit after his indictment this week over bribery allegations, reports Kyran FitzGerald

The Taoiseach’s nephew has been sentenced to seven months in prison for a crime spree that included burglary, car theft and driving while intoxicated.

Dublin-based designer Louise Kennedy, whose customers include singer Beyoncé and actress Meryl Streep, saw profits at her design firm almost double to €313,116 in 2011.

People are choosing to sleep rough in Poland for a break from their tents as the novelty factor of camping slowly turns to hatred.

The man once considered China’s most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight.

Reigning champion Kenny McKinstry heads the entry for tomorrow’s Magic Bullet Rally at the Kirkistown Race Circuit for the beginning of the DGM/Carryduff Forklift Northern Ireland Rally Championship.

TWO rural communities were numbed by grief yesterday following the tragic deaths of two young women in separate road traffic accidents.

STAFF at University College Cork will be test-driving Toyota’s new hybrid electric car this week before it hits production lines next year.

Nigeria’s president vowed to bring terrorism “under control” as he visited the bombed headquarters of the United Nations in his country, a day after at least 18 people died in an attack claimed by a radical Muslim sect.

LIFE is a lottery, they say, and you certainly don’t get to pick your parents.

The Charles Byrnes trained Alfa Beat earned a crack at next month’s Guinness Kerry National in Listowel when completing a fabulous four-timer in the Guinness Handicap Chase in Galway yesterday.

RICHARD HANNON, out of luck on his last visit to the Curragh with the highly-regarded Strong Suit, can redress the balance by saddling Memory to land the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at headquarters tomorrow.

SALES of new cars have finally begun to recover after one of the worst years for the motor industry, when overall sales fell by 66% in 2009.

THE HSE spent over €22 million at the height of the economic boom on a fleet of Mercedes ambulances, a number of which inexplicably caught fire.

A TEENAGER who died in a weekend car accident was one of two recent graduates of a Cork city school killed on the roads in less than a fortnight.