A tourism taskforce hopes to launch a unified marketing strategy promoting the Cork region abroad later this year.

One of the biggest personnel shake-ups for years has taken place in the ranks of An Garda Siochána with six officers being promoted to the rank of chief superintendent and a further 34 inspectors elevated to superintendent.

THREE years ago many Irish people had never heard of Mother Jones.

Gardaí found the body of a newborn baby boy in the toilet of a house in Cork City last summer.

A Cork woman who became a byword in the campaign for miners’ rights in the US is to be honoured in a special festival in her native city next month.

TIMES may be hard, but the smartphone and the cloud computing revolutions are helping Action Point Group, in Limerick, achieve significant sales growth.

DELOITTE yesterday said it will take on 215 graduates on three-and-a-half year contracts over the next year.

A MAN who has crusaded tirelessly for the elderly for over six decades was yesterday named the Cork Person of the Year for 2010.

CORK county councillors were yesterday told they have no powers to prevent head shops setting up next to schools as the planning system was not geared “to deal with moral issues.”

Cork: Reform of the public sector, access to credit for business and a greater sense of civic duty are in urgent need in Ireland, said Cork Chamber president Ger O’Mahony at the organisation’s annual dinner in Cork City Hall last night.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen is to be the guest of honour at this year’s Cork Chamber annual dinner.

THE amount of heroin seized by gardaí in Cork has almost doubled in two years.

A GARDA file on the suspicious death of the son of Killinaskully actor Jim Queally is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, it emerged yesterday.

GARDAÍ are still trying to trace a crucial witness as part of their investigation into the ecstasy-related death of a teenager.

GARDAÍ, investigating the brutal murder of a pensioner in his home in Cork almost a year ago, yesterday renewed their appeal for help yesterday after an inquest.

A Garda file on the gangland-style killing of a father of one in 2005 is still with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

IT IS unlikely that anyone will face criminal charges in relation to the death of a Cork teenager who took ecstasy, it emerged yesterday.

A MAN who was on a stolen motorbike when it crashed, killing another passenger, will face criminal charges.

AN inquest into the death of a man who was stabbed in Cork last summer was opened and adjourned yesterday because two men have been charged with his murder.

Marts: Two West Cork livestock farmers shares top awards at a show and sale of store cattle at Bandon Mart yesterday where up to €350 over €/kg was paid for heavy store bullocks.