Dozens of rail passengers cheated death by seconds when a mini-tornado destroyed a huge section of the railway station roof just seconds after a loaded train pulled out.

FIREFIGHTERS found a critically ill young mother lying in bed next to her dead toddler, with her other little boy lying unconscious beside them after a house fire in Cork yesterday.

A two-year-old boy was killed and his mother and brother left fighting for their lives after an early morning blaze.

A two-year-old boy has died in a house fire in Cork city.

A tasty City Division J‘A’FC final at Ballinlough yesterday as holders Whites Cross and St Finbarr’s battled to the finish but could not be separated after an entertaining contest that ebbed and flowed.

EMERGENCY services will be on high alert tonight for Cork’s traditional bonfire night celebrations.

Heroin use by addicts in derelict buildings throughout Cork city could result in a fatality, according to a senior fire officer.

FIREFIGHTERS had to use tankers supplying drinking water to homes in Cork to extinguish a blaze at a kitchen factory yesterday.

SEVEN people who were rescued from a toxic-smoke filled apartment complex were lucky to escape with their lives, a senior fire officer has said.

GARDAÍ believe a fire that gutted a derelict warehouse in the centre of Cork may have been started deliberately.

TWO separate investigations are under way after an explosion at a chemical plant in Cork yesterday.

A FIREFIGHTER saved a 70-year-old man’s life after he suffered a heart attack on a golf course.

GARDAÍ believe yesterday’s massive fire which destroyed a towering silo complex on Cork’s south docks was started deliberately.

FOUR gardaí had the tyres of their private cars slashed outside a Dublin garda station over the weekend.

THE leader of a gang who organised a savage attack on the former owner of two massage parlours and threatened him for money in the name of the IRA was jailed yesterday for five years.

The leader of a gang who organised a savage attack on the former owner of two massage parlours and threatened him for money in the name of the IRA was jailed today for five years.

THE former owner of two massage parlours claimed yesterday he was dragged from his bedroom and severely beaten and his family were threatened in the name of the IRA to get him to make cash payments of up to 12,700.