Young inter-county players making themselves unavailable for club games is a “very, very worrying” development, according to Cork county board chairperson Tracey Kennedy.

Option A – the so-called April/August option, was overwhelmingly chosen for the Cork county senior and intermediate championship format from 2020 onwards.

There were a number of flakes of silver paint on the road, indicating where the car driven by Sean Collins hit cyclist Stefan Cooper from behind.

An inquest has heard how an 82-year-old farmer fell some 40 feet off a cliff while trying to rescue a calf.

A coroner has warned drug mules that they are playing “Russian roulette” after a 24-year-old Brazilian man suffered a painful death when one of more than 100 pellets of cocaine he had ingested burst on a flight from Lisbon to Dublin.

“I’m heartbroken,” Carmel Kidney said, standing outside Bandon courthouse, not far from where her son, Alan, was found dead after a drugs overdose. “As a mother, I am devastated. I have three funerals to pay for.”

Daughter recalls tragedy at parents’ double inquest.

A man who suffered a mental breakdown while under severe financial pressure stabbed his wife to death and critically injured his eldest daughter before taking his own life, an inquest established yesterday.

A coroner has called for a ban on the sale of old-style chip pans and urged people to dump them, after an inquest heard how two men died in a house fire caused by an unattended chip pan.

A coroner is to issue summonses for several key witnesses who failed to attend a joint inquest yesterday into the deaths of two men in a house fire.

A verdict of accidental death has been recorded following an inquest into the death of a man whose body was found in a slurry pit more than a month after he disappeared.

A 14-year-old girl yesterday recounted the moment when she saw her father attempt to rescue her brother and her brother’s girlfriend when a freak wave swept them out to sea, only for all three to lose their lives.

A father drowned while trying to save his son and his girlfriend after they were swept out to sea by a freak wave last summer, an inquest heard yesterday.

A mother wept yesterday as a jury returned a verdict of accidental death in an inquest into the death of her only child in a road crash in West Cork.

A Cork pensioner who was killed when a wall fell on him as he pottered around his garden died of blunt force trauma to his head, an inquest into his death has heard.

An inquest into the death of a mother who was stabbed to death before her house was set ablaze was adjourned yesterday pending an appeal by the man convicted of her murder.

A coroner has issued a stark warning about the dangers of cooking after consuming alcohol following an inquest into the death of a teenager in a chip pan fire tragedy.

A young Cork woman raised the alarm to evacuate her family from their burning home before the smoke eventually overwhelmed her causing her to die .

A verdict of accidental death has been recorded at the inquest into the tragic loss of a 17-month-old Cork toddler who was hit by his father’s tractor last summer.

An eight-year-old girl died in a horrific road accident while on holiday in West Cork last year.

A retired public school teacher from Oxfordshire died after a summer sailing trip turned to disaster in West Cork.

A young farmer died after he was trapped under a trailer in a farmyard accident, an inquest has heard.

A musician who died in a car crash from which the driver fled, "took the wrong lift, in the wrong car on the wrong night", a coroner said.

Six coroners working on a part-time basis each earned more than €100,000 in State retainers and fees last year, new figures show.

A verdict of accidental death has been returned in the cases of all six victims of the Manx2 plane crash at Cork Airport.

Passengers recall horror as plane crashed, reports Eoin English.

By Eoin English

A coroner has issued a stark warning about the dangers of taking ecstasy or similar type drugs, which he described as “deadly poisons”.

An inquest has found a West Cork farmer and his daughter both died from drowning after he entered the sea with her, with the verdict delivered yesterday amid highly charged scenes in Bantry.

At the start of yesterday’s inquest into the deaths of Martin McCarthy and his daughter Clarissa, coroner Frank O’Connell warned that “the atmosphere could get a little uncomfortable”. He was talking about the stuffy heat in the crowded room, but he was right in more ways than one

Directors at cash-strapped semi- state company the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) and their predecessors have defended an expenses regime which, in one case, saw a political appointee claim €1,000 a week for travel costs.

After spending a year resisting the publication of its chairman’s expenses, the Irish Greyhound Board has said it now has no problem with the release of the information.

The change of course which led the fishing trawler Tit Bonhomme to smash into Adam’s Island in Glandore Harbour was due to “human intervention”, an inquest heard yesterday, in dramatic testimony that challenges aspects of the only report yet carried out into the tragedy.

A cancer patient who was accidently rendered paraplegic by an operation to help manage her pain would “on the balance of probability” have lived longer if the surgery had not taken place.

A schoolboy died in a tragic freak accident after he sustained a fatal injury during a fall from his bike.

A young mother who was involved in a double fatal car crash was over the legal alcohol limit when she drove in the wrong direction on a dual carriageway.

THE family of hotel gas leak victim Miriam Reidy has drawn “immense comfort” from their faith following their daughter’s death a year ago.

THE funeral of an Englishman murdered and dumped in a river will take place in Bandon when his body is released.

THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is still investigating the circumstances which led to the death of a young woman from carbon monoxide poisoning in a Cork hotel.

A DESPERATE woman called a taxi driver and told him to “get me out of here” hours before her battered body was discovered in a pool of blood in her home.

THE wife of a man who killed their two young children and then took his own life by dousing his car in petrol and crashing into a wall at high speed has called for a review of certain aspects of mental health care.

A LOVING mother whose mentally ill husband killed their two daughters before he committed suicide held back the tears as she tried to explain the impact the tragedy has had on her life.

THE young woman who died in a Co Cork hotel room earlier this year while on weekend hen party died from acute carbon monoxide poisoning, it was confirmed yesterday.

THE sole survivor of a fishing boat fire tragedy which claimed the lives of his three friends said he has daily thoughts of the accident.