A coroner has issued a fresh warning about the dangers of window blind cords after hearing harrowing details about the death of a toddler in a freak accident.

Mandatory life sentence given for murdering Nicola Collins

There were a number of flakes of silver paint on the road, indicating where the car driven by Sean Collins hit cyclist Stefan Cooper from behind.

A fit, sports-mad teenager died from severe brain-swelling triggered by the muscle-building steroid, Stenozolol, an inquest has found.

A 17-year-old boy has appeared before the Children’s Court charged with the murder of a man in Dublin.

Latest: Gardaí have launched a murder investigation after the body of a man was found at Butler Park off the Cheeverstown Road in Tallaght earlier today.

The Cork man on trial for murdering his mother was freaked out about not being able to talk to women and he drank two bottles of wine before allegedly arguing with his mother and stabbing her in the back of the head with considerable force.

“She’s never going to know her sister, that’s what gets me the most. And the fact now that there’s no answers, it makes it 100 times worse.”

A woman has been found guilty by unanimous verdict of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to an American tourist near Tralee in August 2013.

A jury at the inquest into the death of a Cork student who went missing before being found in a river near student accommodation has recommended that University College Cork carry out a safety review of the grounds of the site.

The distraught parents of a healthy 20-year-old student who died suddenly in a hospital emergency department (ED) still do not know why their daughter died following an inquest.

A young woman with mental health and addiction issues, evicted from a flat after losing her rent allowance, was found dead in a tent in Cork City after taking a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.

The jury in the trial of a motorist accused of careless driving causing the death of an elderly Kilkenny man near Mitchelstown two years ago failed to reach a verdict yesterday after four hours of deliberation.

The only evidence given by a motorist on trial yesterday for careless driving causing the death of an elderly man was to say to the family of the deceased: “I am sorry for your loss.”

A young mother who was found dead in a vacant building in Cork City had been beaten about the head and strangled.

A mother-of-three whose body was found in a flat on the northside of Cork City earlier this year died from brain injuries, due to blunt force trauma to the head.

A young mother who was found dead in a vacant building in Cork City had been beaten about the head and strangled.

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.

An Irish-based Latvian national has withdrawn personal injury claims for €120,000 against insurance companies and two of their customers after having been secretly photographed lugging suitcases onto a coach he drove while claiming he was unfit for work.

A more structured approach to educating young people about drugs involving set programmes in schools needs to be introduced.

Criminal proceedings may be considered in relation to the deaths of two men in separate workplace accidents within days of each other in Cork, it has emerged.

A 14-year-old girl yesterday recounted the moment when she saw her father attempt to rescue her brother and her brother’s girlfriend when a freak wave swept them out to sea, only for all three to lose their lives.

A prisoner found in a coma at Limerick Prison died from a cocktail of drugs which included heroin, methadone and two types of prescription sedatives.

A Corkwoman who was killed in her home died as a result of a stab wound to her head, the inquest into her death has heard.

The Central Criminal Court in Tralee heard yesterday how the body of a Brazilian man found in a bog drain in north Kerry in 2012 had 64 stab wounds, along with multiple bruises and lacerations.

The death of a school principal in the River Lee earlier this year bore all the hallmarks of an accident, Cork’s City coroner said yesterday.

The homeless man whose body was found in the rubbish chute of an apartment block suffered no fatal injuries beforehand and died as a result of asphyxia and lack of oxygen, a pathologist has said.

A verdict of accidental death has been recorded at the inquest into the tragic loss of a 17-month-old Cork toddler who was hit by his father’s tractor last summer.

A 42-year-old father of four died from multiple injuries after being struck by a vehicle in a hit and run accident while cycling, a court heard yesterday.

An eight-year-old girl died in a horrific road accident while on holiday in West Cork last year.

Deadly carbon monoxide gases can mimic bugs such as the common cold or flu, a pathologist said yesterday.

A gruesome litany of injuries suffered by a mother and daughter stabbed to death in their home last year was outlined yesterday by assistant State pathologist Margot Bolster.

The danger of a drug once sold in head-shops here and considered to be a "safe alternative " to ecstasy-type drugs is only beginning to be realised, the inquest into the death of a 25-year-old man has been told.

A pathologist who observed a complex of multiple injuries on the body of a dead man found tied up in the River Bandon said it was very unlikely a person acting alone could have tied up and disposed of the body.

A motorist has told an inquest into the death of a man who was walking on a dual carriageway when he was struck by a car that he did not have time to stop.

At the start of yesterday’s inquest into the deaths of Martin McCarthy and his daughter Clarissa, coroner Frank O’Connell warned that “the atmosphere could get a little uncomfortable”. He was talking about the stuffy heat in the crowded room, but he was right in more ways than one

It is 20 years since the decision was taken to expand Dr John Harbison’s State Pathologist’s Office but almost immediately it looked like the one-man-show could turn into a circus.

A 19-year-old man was being questioned by gardaí last night in connection with the killing of a woman in her 50s in North Kerry.

A 13-month-old baby boy died after ingesting a 5cm metal screw that lodged deep in his windpipe.