The ad is one of a growing number on classified ads websites where men look for single women who need free accommodation.

Latest: A major search operation is underway in west Cork for a fisherman who failed to return home last night.

A two-year-old girl taken to hospital from an apartment in Cork city earlier today, has died.

Three senior Irish Examiner journalists and an Echo reporter were among the winners of this year's Justice Media Awards.

A Hungarian national working in a chipper in Bandon used his knowledge of the business to set up a €15,000 burglary back in 2008 and later fled the country.

Many jet into Cork from cities across the world to target local clients.

We want a place for our son before we die. That is the plea of Cork couple, Ger and Linda Riordan, whose 25-year-old son, Ian, has Down Syndrome.

The promoters behind the three Ed Sheeran concerts at Páirc Uí Chaoimh have been charged €90,000 by the State for policing during the events.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross is appealing to parents to be “sensible and moderate” for their children’s First Communion celebrations as several Cork families are currently working with a Liverpool designer to create the perfect dresses for their daughters.

Four men and a woman are being questioned this morning in connection with the murder of Aidan O'Driscoll in Blackpool on December 7.

Ms Collins was murdered in a flat on Popham's Road in Farranree in the early hours on Monday morning.

The 42-year-old’s trial was in its sixth day at the Central Criminal Court.

A baby cheated death by inches after his buggy was crushed against a pole in a horror crash in Cork city, writes Ann Murphy

Gardaí are hunting for a conman who masquerades as a garda detective or a worker for telecoms company Eir, writes Ann Murphy of the Evening Echo.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

Gardaí are hunting for a Waterford gang responsible for a spate of burglaries in Cork, writes Ann Murphy of the Evening Echo.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Two Irish Examiner journalists have won a top prize at the annual Justice Media Awards.

A five-year-old boy who suffered a shoulder injury during birth at University College Hospital Galway has settled his action against the HSE for €650,000.

The Irish Examiner and Evening Echo have swept the boards at the Law Society of Ireland’s Justice Media Awards.

Gardaí are awaiting the results of toxicology tests following the discovery of a woman's body at the weekend.

Delegates at the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis are calling on the party to reject any coalition deal with Fine Gael.

A sell-out concert at Cork’s City Hall has helped to raise vital funds towards the recovery from a stroke of Evening Echo reporter Deirdre O’Reilly, herself a champion fundraiser for charity.

Two men are in custody after a high speed chase in which a garda was knocked off his motorcycle in Cork.

A Co Wicklow woman, who alleges she has been defamed in a “cyber tort” by The Washington Post Company, was today granted leave of the High Court to serve a claim for damages in the USA.

IRISH Examiner journalist Conall Ó Fatharta has won one of the highest accolades on offer at the Justice Media Awards for his outstanding exposé on Ireland’s illegal adoption scandal.

PROSTITUTES, cat food, trips to Africa: There are few limits to the expenses Americans believe should be tax deductible, but given the complexity of the tax code they may be forgiven.

IRISH EXAMINER reporters Noel Baker and Cormac O’Keeffe are among the winners of this year’s annual Justice Media Awards.

A MOTHER of two foster children has been living with a hole in her floor — and no wheelchair lift — for six months because a firm that took a deposit to install the lift has not completed the work.

A teenage American girl who vanished a year ago and was found hidden in a room in a man's home in Connecticut assumed a new identity that made her part of his family, authorities said today, as they investigated whether he had inappropriate relationships with her and other girls.

Three people were arrested after a 15-year-old American girl missing for a year was found locked in a hidden room in a house in Connecticut, US authorities said today.

Police investigating the year-long disappearance of a 15-year-old American girl said they found her yesterday, pale but alive, locked in a hidden room in a home in Connecticut owned by an acquaintance of her parents.

THE Irish Examiner has taken one of the top honours in the annual Law Society awards for journalism.

Frank Guerin, the former Munster heavyweight boxing champion and a wearer of the Kerry football jersey, aced the 3rd at Youghal.