Gardaí in Waterford have been conducting door-to-door inquiries after a assault left a 20-year-old in danger of losing some of his fingers.

The Polish community in Cork has rallied to help cover funeral expenses for a family who lost their teenage son in a motorbike accident.

A teenager who was due to collect his Leaving Cert results in two weeks has been killed in a motorbike accident in his native Poland.

Cork City Council has been accused of ignoring its duties as a landlord, leaving tenants to endure increasingly cold conditions due to a repeatedly malfunctioning heating system.

The sun blazed down on 550 rowers and paddlers who were cheered through Cork harbour and into Cork city as they took on the gruelling task of completing the 10th Rás Mór, Ireland’s number one rowing race.

Dublin City Council has backed a motion supporting Dublin Fire Bridage in retaining the city Ambulance service.

What could be controversial about the city of Toronto congratulating Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes?

Toronto mayor Rob Ford has refused to resign amid immense pressure to step down as leader of Canada’s largest city, after admitting for the first time that he smoked crack “probably a year ago” when he was in a “drunken stupor”.

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Cars will be banned from Cork's Patrick Street, while MacCurtain Street will revert back to a two-way system under new plans by the city council, today's Evening Echo reports.

Two men and three teenage boys have been charged with gang-raping a seven-year-old girl sold for sex by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in New Jersey.

The man shot dead at a Limerick petrol station early this morning was the brother of a high-profile state witness, it has emerged.

Two New York City fried chicken restaurants in predominantly black neighbourhoods are under fire for putting President Barack Obama’s name on their signs.

More than 80 former workers of Swissco, which closed suddenly in December, have today protested at the company building in Little Island, Co Cork, demanding redundancy money.

People in Cork who have lost their jobs are having to wait seven weeks for their dole payment applications to be processed.

PLANS to build one of the country’s first co-located hospitals on a crowded medical complex in Cork are facing stiff opposition.

A special meeting of Cork City Council will discuss final amendments to the multi-billion euro docklands plan tonight.

Homes and businesses in some parts of Galway look set to enter their third night without a water supply, due to an electrical problem at the Luimnagh Water Plant.

THE Government is to come under unprecedented pressure to deliver radiotherapy for public as well as private patients at a new hospital which Taoiseach Bertie Ahern opens in Waterford next week.

A CITY street in Waterford which was cobbled seven years ago is to be remodelled and some stones removed as part of works which could cost up to €250,000.

BUS DRIVERS in Waterford are set to strike next Monday and cause massive disruptions for commuters.

WATERFORD city is to get a team of community-based gardaí from next month as part of a major drive to tackle crime.

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A WATERFORD city centre landmark targeted by vandals on numerous occasions is getting a major revamp and will be open in time for the Tall Ships Race, city officials have promised.

STAFF at Waterford Crystal’s two plants meet today to discuss the company’s proposed 485 job cuts and a major cost-cutting programme for remaining staff.

LIMERICK City Council may have to spend three quarters of a million euro next year to buy houses in three trouble estates to prevent them falling into the hands of criminal gangs.