Shocked locals struggled to comprehend how a promising athlete and engineering student had his life cut short in a "senseless, heartbreaking" incident.

The President has unveiled a plaque to mark the birthplace of a Cork man who is revered in Venezuela as a liberator, but who remains largely anonymous here.

A hi-tech robot has started work dispensing medicine in a Cork pharmacy.

MORE than 50,000 people flocked to Bloom 2008, the five-day gardening showpiece, which ended at Phoenix Park in Dublin yesterday evening.