A call to illuminate a bridge linking Cork and Kerry peninsulas has been rejected on cost grounds.

Channel 4 are planning to air a Shameless-style sitcom based on the Great Famine. 

A separated Clare man who has no access to the television in his own home has emerged victorious in his TV licence battle with An Post — but he won’t be telling his ex-wife.

Five American Bulldogs being walked by their owner who lost an arm when he was mauled last month were not on leads when they seriously injured a dog walker, police in England have said.

A shooting in a pub in what is described as one of the most peaceful villages in Ireland has shocked the local community.

Youghal Town Council is to get €280,000 to restore the storm-damaged boardwalk.

A flood prevention scheme, which could cost up to €3 million, should be completed in Glanmire by 2016, according to consultants designing project.

Kerry County Councillor Danny Healy-Rae has defended his call for rural people to be given permits that would allow them to drink "two or three pints" and drive afterwards.

Police in Wales and “hundreds” of local residents have spent the night searching for a missing five-year-old girl who was abducted while out playing near her home.

A small coastal community is mourning the death of a professor of creative writing and poetry who drowned after his dinghy capsized off the south-west coast.

Cork is facing a crisis if it does not start planning now for a major increase in the city and county’s ageing population.

A Fianna Fail County Councillor, who has been threatening to quit the party, has said he has no faith in its leader Micháel Martin.

HIGH-PROFILE election casualties Cork South Central’s Deirdre Clune, Kerry South’s Tom Sheahan and Wexford’s Michael D’Arcy are among those nominated by Fine Gael for the upcoming Seanad election.

HOUSEHOLDERS in some of Cork’s worst hit flood areas criticised the Government last night for not funding a full-scale flood defence system because of its €100 million price tag.

THE HSE has been urged to set up an outreach centre for swine flu vaccination on the Beara peninsula.

ELDERLY people living on the Mizen Head have been forced to make two-and-a-half hour round trips on public transport to collect medication as they have been unable to process prescriptions nearby.

NEWCASTLE West is a town which prides itself on enterprise and resilience.

THE IDA will be quizzed today on what it is doing to find new jobs for east Cork in the wake of the shock collapse of the 1,100-job Amgen project last year.

TWO men in their 40s died following a horror head-on crash on a bypass in north Cork.

GREENCORE has offered to look at any economic proposition for the location of biofuel production in Mallow, but has firmly ruled any direct involvement in the sector.

EXACTLY 15 years on, and gardaí and townspeople in Fermoy are still no closer to uncovering the reasons behind the mysterious disappearance of Conor and Shiela Dwyer.

A HIGH-PROFILE Fianna Fáil probe into donations to members failed to uncover thousands of pounds in payments from developers because the investigating committee did not honour their terms of reference, the Flood Tribunal heard.