Nightly now we see the appalling cruelty being inflicted on helpless Syrian citizens by their own government and by their Rusian and Iranian allies.

A hill farmer who ambushed and assaulted a neighbour on a remote road near the Cork-Kerry mountains was yesterday jailed for 12 months.

The current controversy over septic tank inspections seems to have provoked a resistance campaign marked by political opportunism and cowardice, self-induced hysteria and sheer bloody-minded selfishness.

CORK County Council has given the green light to a €400 million redevelopment of Ballincollig, the biggest planning permission ever granted by the local authority.

WHILE most students are now enjoying well-earned lie ins and exams are history, those who chose technical, science and mathematical subjects still have their noses stuck in books.