The widow of a man who had been a healthy, active 37-year-old golf professional said she is still trying to understand how her husband died.

LATEST: Gardaí at the Bridewell Garda Station are appealing for information following the death of a woman in Cork city.

A 13-year-old road traffic collision victim died of a traumatic brain injury as a result of the incident, an inquest heard.

A coroner has repeated her plea to government agencies to make it compulsory for all heavy goods vehicles to have specified safety mirrors fitted so as to prevent accidents with cyclists and pedestrians.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man died of horrific head injuries after he was thrown from a car that “spun like a washing machine” as it flipped over.

Gardaí in Cork have officially launched a murder inquiry following the shooting dead yesterday of Darren Falsely in Carrigaline.

THE young woman who died in a Co Cork hotel room earlier this year while on weekend hen party died from acute carbon monoxide poisoning, it was confirmed yesterday.

GARDAÍ believe that 43-year-old John Butler killed his two daughters at their home in east Cork before dousing his car in petrol and deliberately crashing it at high speed into a ditch.

The Assistant State Pathologist has today told the trial of two brothers accused of murdering a farmer, that the head injury he sustained during a dispute on their farmyard “substantially” contributed to his death.

A MAN with suspected head injuries may have been dead for at least a month in his apartment in Kinsale, Co Cork, before being discovered.

NEARLY four years on the HSE still won’t say if it will honour its promise to publish a report into the death of a psycho-geriatric patient at a Co Cork hospital.

EAMONN Lillis’s defence team yesterday pleaded for his acquittal after claiming the case for the prosecution did not stand up to scrutiny.

A CORONER and the assistant State pathologist both issued very strong warnings yesterday about the lethal dangers of heroin after an inquest into the death of a promising young apprentice.

IT was the news the people of a tight-knit community had been expecting, but when it came it didn’t make the pain any easier to bear.

GARDAÍ investigating the death of a young student in Co Cork believe he may have been overcome by gas from a faulty new cooker.

A man walked into a police station after a heavy drinking session and announced to police he had stabbed his friend to death, an inquest heard today.

A MAN who became ill during a Garda raid died from cocaine, alcohol and lignocaine intoxication during restraint, an inquest heard yesterday.

GARDAÍ are to prepare a file for the DPP after a farmer died of a massive heart attack, minutes after he was allegedly assaulted during a row over land.

GARDAÍ were continuing to question a man last night in connection with the death of a man whose body was found at an apartment in Limerick city on Thursday morning.

AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman who fell out of a hospital harness onto her head died of natural causes five days later, an inquest heard yesterday.

An inquest into the death of Co Cork teenager Sheola Keaney has heard that she died from manual strangulation.

A FRAIL elderly man with Alzheimer’s suffered a severe burn in a nursing home after he was left strapped in a special chair next to a radiator.

GARDAÍ have until midnight tonight before they must charge or release the partner of Charlie Wrench, the Englishman killed by a shotgun blast in north Cork on Monday night.

A MOTHER OF ONE has been arrested over the shooting dead of her partner in north Cork on Monday night.

THE body of a baby girl found in the attic of a house in Co Limerick had been there for several months, gardaí disclosed yesterday.

Gardaí are continuing to investigate the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old mother at a birthday party in Dublin’s Coolock, a coroner’s court heard today.

GARDAÍ were last night awaiting the results of a postmortem on the body of a Polish man, who is believed to have died of head injuries at a house in a Cork suburb.

A newborn baby’s body was found in a house near Dunmanway, West Cork today, gardaí said.

GARDAÍ have closed the investigation into the death of a man found lying in his home with a butcher’s knife embedded in his chest.

The Assistant State Pathologist is travelling to Galway to carry out a post-mortem examination on the body of a woman in her 60s.

STANDING beside a small holdall at the gates of Leinster House, Andrew Moynihan holds a small banner aloft. Hunger Strike For Justice, reads its simple message.

A TEENAGER, whose best friend died after taking a lethal mixture of painkilling pills and spirits, remained in a stable condition in hospital last night.