TWO little sisters, who grew up together, played together and died together in a family tragedy, were laid to rest together yesterday.

HAVING won four of the last five City division junior football titles, White’s Cross have taken the next step to reach a first county final in the grade after prevailing against Mitchelstown at Watergrasshill on Saturday.

ST FINBARR’S proved too good for Ballincollig in last night’s Cork SFC quarter-final at Páirc Ui Rinn, winning 1-13 to 2-4, a run of late points working the oracle.

HAIRDRESSER Donna Black was sharpening her scissors last night, ahead of the social wedding of the year today.

FORMER Taoiseach Albert Reynolds along with Health Minister Mary Harney, JP McManus, John Magnier and members of the Chieftains are expected to be among 250 guests attending tomorrow’s wedding of Michael Flatley to Niamh O’Brien.

CORK County Council has granted a number of significant planning permissions, including an extension to the Rochestown Park Hotel, which will make it the second largest hotel in Munster.

A man who beat his uncle to death because he wrongly believed he had raped his sister has been jailed for four years by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 28-YEAR-OLD farm manager has been killed in a traffic accident in

An Irishman has died after being stabbed during a fight in London over the weekend.