The mother of a young girl who survived a gunshot wound to the neck has pleaded for a housing transfer after her daughter was subjected to vile online threats and abuse a day after a man was jailed for the attack.

An 11-year sentence was imposed yesterday on a garda informer who shot a woman in the neck through the window of a house as it emerged that CCTV at the accused man’s own home was the key evidence convicting him.

An eleven-year sentence has been imposed on a garda informer who shot a woman in the neck through the window of a house as it emerged that CCTV at the accused man’s own home was the key evidence convicting him, writes Liam Heylin of the Irish Examiner.

A woman has described being shot in the neck as a Cork man went on trial on charges arising out a shot being fired through the front room window of a house in Cork City.

The DPP directed yesterday that a judge and jury will hear the case against a Cork man charged with discharging a firearm arising out of the investigation of a young woman being shot in the neck.

A 29-year-old Corkman charged with discharging a firearm, arising out of an investigation into a young woman being shot in the neck 10 days ago, yesterday said he was seeking bail.

A man was yesterday charged with discharging a firearm arising out of an investigation into a shooting in Cork City, in the early hours of Sunday last, where a young woman was wounded in the neck.

Alan King ticked off another box on his glittering CV after Smad Place finally delivered on the big stage over fences with a scintillating win in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday.

It’s four years since Gavin Sheehan left Ireland to try his hand abroad and yesterday’s triumph in the World Hurdle on Cole Harden is proof that the grass can actually be greener on the other side, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Colm Greaves takes a look at the fourth day of the Cheltenham Festival.

Tears in AP McCoy’s enclosure as perennial champion jockey steers 16/1 shot home in front of family

Cole Harden made every yard of the running to win the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at Cheltenham for Warren Greatrex and Gavin Sheehan.

National Hunt racing is a notoriously tough game to make a name for oneself, but Gavin Sheehan has been doing just that.

A 25-year-old Corkman is on course to claim his share of the biggest prize in world rowing when he and his fellow crew complete a gruelling 2,000-mile non-stop race around Britain.

A Corkman is part of a crew that is on pace to break the world record for rowing around Britain.

Former champion Ruby Walsh kept punters happy at a sunny Cork last night when doubling-up on well-backed Roman Flight and odds-on favourite Simenon in the opening two races.

CHARLIE Mann is sounding bullish ahead of Bench Warrent’s bid for glory in the Betfred Classic Chase at Warwick today.

JIMMY Mangan’s Rudi Trucker indicated that he’s set for another productive hunter chase campaign this season by sluicing home in the lady riders open at yesterday’s North Tipperary Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Nenagh, the only hunt racing fixture to take place over the weekend.

LOCAL jockey Gavin Sheehan led from pillar to post on the local owned and trained That Fellow in the Irish Examiner sponsored Ballabuidhe Derby before a huge crowd on the opening day of the sun-soaked Ballabuidhe Festival in Dunmanway yesterday.

DESPITE the inclement weather, a huge crowd turned out for day one of the Ballabuidhe Racing festival yesterday.