News of the murder of their neighbour has rocked the community of Ballincollig, as Niall Murray and Eoin English report.

New ‘code-of-conduct’ signs are to be erected shortly on a greenway on the outskirts of Cork City amid fears more pedestrians could be knocked down by cyclists.

Cork city and county councils are still in dispute over Cork’s boundary alteration, which will be presented to Government today.

Alcohol addiction is far more serious in Cork and Kerry than drug addiction, according to an expert from the HSE.

Towns along the south coast are braced for flooding as Storm Brian is set to batter the country. 

A taxi driver was caught around the neck by a backseat passenger who held a broken bottle to his neck, it was alleged yesterday during a bail application by the accused man.

A forum on policing has proposed the establishment of a motor insurance database to aid gardaí in the detection of those driving without cover.

Work will not commence on a Macroom bypass or new Cork-Ringaskiddy road until at least 2022, as priority is being given to upgrading the Dunkettle/Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange.

Nearly half of all off-licences targeted in a sting operation by gardaí in Cork City sold alcohol to minors.

A major new traffic and transportation study is to be conducted in one of the country’s busiest commuter towns in a bid to end gridlock.

Mind-boggling difficulties were predicted by a judge yesterday for the abolition from Monday of prison sentences being a default for non-payment of court fines.

An Armagh man accused of having 20,000 cigarettes and 240 packets of loose tobacco for sale at the weekend in Cork without payment of duty told gardaí he was in Cork for a stag night but later said he was in the area for a road bowling match.

Gardaí have been forced to move prisoners to other stations for the last number of weeks because a fault has closed down all the cells in a divisional headquarters.

EMC, one of the largest private employers in Cork, is to pull a specialised team from its Ovens Centre of Excellence amid concerns over connectivity to and from the city.

A senior representative of the largest Garda association has said it is completely unacceptable that the Cork Metropolitan region is to get just five recruits — as Garda numbers are already so low there they are only able to “operate fire brigade action”.

A €21m plan by the Courts Service to build a new courthouse in Cork City is facing increasing opposition over fears it will lead lead to the closure of several district courts around the county.

Businesses owe Cork County Council €94.4m in commercial rates over the past four years, with arrears steadily increasing.

Four counts in Cork County Hall saw huge gains for Sinn Féin, a revival for Fianna Fáil, the obliteration of the Labour Party, and a palpable appetite for new candidates.

Fianna Fáil has moved to quell internal rumblings after party leader Micheál Martin’s parliamentary assistant was unveiled as a local election candidate.

A former employee of Abtran, operating the Revenue’s property tax helpline, has been ordered to obey the directions of the probation service for a year for inducing members of the public to give bank card details by deception.

Two gangs were out for blood on bonfire night in Cork and some armed themselves with knives, sticks, meat cleavers, knuckledusters, and bottles.

Four men pleaded guilty yesterday to engaging in an affray on Bonfire Night in Cork City in a case where it was alleged that some men armed themselves with knives, sticks, meat cleavers, knuckledusters, and bottles in a violent row in a residential area.

A former Abtran employee operating the Revenue’s property tax helpline yesterday admitted charges of inducing members of the public to give bank card details by deception.

A former employee of Abtran, operating the Revenue’s property tax helpline was arrested yesterday and charged with inducing members of the public to give bank card details by deception.

Three men who were arrested by gardaí after attempting to raid a businessman’s house have been refused bail after appearing at a special sitting of Cork District Court.

Two sets of sisters have been handed jail sentences for a “savage” attack on another woman outside a pub.

Two sets of sisters involved in an “all-girlie” violent attack on another woman in a street fight in Kinsale, Co Cork, were yesterday remanded in custody for sentencing next week.

THIS time around, three Fine Gael candidates will have their names near the top of the ballot paper and not many would bet against two of them taking seats in Leinster House on March 9.

THE inclusion of a Ballincollig- based candidate on the Fianna Fáil ticket in Cork North West will be a boost rather than a hindrance to Fine Gael, local FG election hopeful Derry Canty claims.