The teenager charged with murdering Cameron Blair on Bandon Road in Cork appeared at the children’s court in Cork again where it emerged that Gardaí were ready to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Gardaí say that investigations into six killings that took place in Cork since July are progressing well.

Gardaí are planning to mount targeted high-visibility evening foot and bike patrols in Cork city centre to enhance public safety.

Last month’s gruesome attacks are indicative of a trend in violent crime that cannot be divorced from the effect of cuts to policing and other services, says Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe.

Mr Blair, whose funeral took place in Bandon last Sunday, was a second-year Chemical Engineering student at Cork Institute of Technology.

Rockwell advanced to the quarter-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup with a four-try victory over Bandon Grammar School.

Rockwell advanced to the quarter-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup with a four-try victory over Bandon Grammar School.

After the shock of the death of former pupil Cameron Blair less than a fortnight ago, the students at the West Cork school take the first step in a collective recovery tomorrow

Mourners gathered at the home of Cameron Blair in Tullymurrihy in Ballinascarthy to pay respects to the student's family today.

Are we there yet? The halfway point of the general election campaign is kicking in this weekend. Yet a cursory examination of the ground traversed since the election was called on January 14 would suggest that in some respects things haven’t really got motoring.

It emerged yesterday that up to 40 people linked to some degree or other with leading figures in the murderous Drogheda feud, including women and children, are in hiding, because they fear they might be caught in revenge crossfire after last week’s discovery of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods’ butchered body. Unsurprisingly, the Criminal Assets Bureau, National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau have met to plan a response to that outrage. On the very day that this run-and-hide response to the murder of a 17-year-old became public, another 17-year-old was arrested in connection with Cameron Blair’s murder in Cork last week.

Gardaí investigating the fatal assault of Cameron Blair in Cork have arrested a teenager.

A 20-year-old student who was stabbed in the neck and died after he was attacked by a man who had gate-crashed a house party will be laid to rest on Sunday.

The murder and dismemberment of Drogheda teenager Keane Mulready-Woods last week sent a chill through this society.

Last night, officers were stopping cars on Swans Nest Avenue as part of efforts to identify witnesses.

The Social Democrats say the shocking events in Drogheda and Dublin this week highlight the failures of not investing in community policing.

Cameron Blair, 20, was killed at a house on the Bandon Road on Thursday night and a murder investigation has been launched.

The incident occurred less than 24 hours after the death of Cameron Blair

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

Fianna Fáil has said it will increase the headcount in An Garda Síochána by 2,000 at a cost of €47 million per year.

Latest: Gardaí have re-issued their appeal for information regarding the fatal stabbing of Cork student Cameron Blair.

THE student who died after being stabbed on Bandon Road last night has been named locally as Cameron Blair, from outside Clonakilty.

Gardaí have launched an investigation after a young man was fatally stabbed in Cork city tonight.