Three young children were found in a highly distressed state at a house party in Carrigaline where gardaí found many empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia including needles, tinfoil and burnt spoons on the floor.

A man came out of a six-week coma in hospital and stole cash and a phone belonging to one of the doctors.

St Val’s will bid to win their fourth Cork SFC title — and a first for Cork senior star Brid Stack — this evening.

Captain Fiona Rochford’s last-gasp free salvaged a draw for Wexford in a gripping Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 3 final against Tipperary.

The English Market in Cork has launched a start-up stall initiative to foster fledgling food businesses.

Given the time of year we just had to bring you a selection of some of the best Christmas lights across Cork city and county and ask the question does Cork take the award for best lights this year?

It’s Friday, so we want everyone to head into the weekend with smiles on their faces and a little skip in their step.

RTÉ has followed the lead of hit US reality show Toddlers & Tiaras by filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary on the explosive build-up to last weekend’s controversial child pageant.

The Dublin hotel which was due to stage a US-themed child’s beauty pageant this weekend, has cancelled the booking saying the organisers “did not identify the true nature of the event”.

Late Late Show chiefs have been urged to “think very carefully” about giving airtime to organisers and young stars of a contentious US-themed child pageant in an upcoming show.

A nine-year-old Cork girl has become an overnight star in Australia after winning the country’s leading child pageant competition.

An Irish mother has told how she’s broken the bank by splashing out €10,000 to send her daughter into an upcoming child beauty pageant.

We hit up Dublin and Cork in this week's edition.

A MAN who threatened to kill and to cut out the eye of a sales assistant at a jewellery shop, if she continued to look at a panic button, was jailed for nine years yesterday.

I FEEL compelled to reply to Aisling Murphy (Letters, Nov 9). She asked how many Reserve Defence Forces (RDF) personnel turned in during the bad weather last winter.

IF, as Aisling Murphy (Letters, Nov 9) suggests, soldiers will get stressed at having to relocate, how would they cope if there was a war?

I WRITE to you to highlight a great injustice imposed on a group of loyal and diligent servants of this state.

THERE was delight for Douglas, Castletroy and Edenmore at the AA Insurance Ladies Golf Championships in Royal Tara on Saturday.