250 cyclists are taking on a 200km journey across the country today in aid of suicide awareness - among them is Celebrity chef Derry Clarke.

Trainer Martin Brassil seems to have a potentially-decent prospect on his hands in Woodford County who lit up the first session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point meeting at Farrangalway on Saturday evening by winning a particularly-competitive renewal of the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

A FILE is being prepared for the DPP following a hit and run accident in which a 65-year-old pedestrian was killed.

A file is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to a hit-and-run accident in Cork city last night.

Gardaí in Cork are questioning a man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run on the outskirts of the city yesterday evening.