More than €240,000 has been defrauded from people in a phone scam spreading across the country.

Victims of a new telephone scam hitting the country in the last couple of weeks need to report it immediately to gardaí, a senior fraud officer has said.

AIB All-Ireland Club IHC final: O’Donovan Rossa (Antrim) 1-9 Kilburn Gaels 2-3: Gerard Walsh’s wonderful individual point a minute into injury time of an intense contest sealed the All-Ireland Club IHC title for O’Donovan Rossa.

O’Donovan Rossa (Antrim) 2-12Cappoquin (Waterford) 1-8: AIB All-Ireland Club IHC semi-final:

A top golf club, handicapped for several years by a huge debt, is finally out of the rough.

Gardaí spotted that a suspected drink driver had stopped his car on the slow lane of the Mallow Rd in Cork but on seeing the guards the motorist took off at speed across the hard shoulder and up on to the grass embankment.

A MIDDLE-AGED woman who slipped and broke her ankle on a marble staircase while holidaying in Italy has been awarded €25,000 compensation against the travel agent.

NOTHING in our recent past has raised my fear so much as this budget that condemns families on the breadline to a life of poverty, hunger and homelessness.

AS the introduction of domestic water charges looms, a new survey has found nine out of 10 people have no idea how much water they use on a daily basis.

A NUMBER of people were remanded at Limerick City Court yesterday arising out of recent disturbances in Moyross.

The Examiner in charge of the financial affairs of Cork City, Kieran McCarthy, confirmed today that he is talking to three parties looking to buy the club.

ARKAGA, the owners of Cork City, have broken their silence on the current crisis at Turner’s Cross but have given no clear indication of their plans for the future.

HOUSEHOLDERS must realise that burning 60,000 tonnes of rubbish illegally in backyards can have more deadly health effects than incineration, an Oireachtas Committee heard yesterday.

Householders must realise that burning rubbish illegally in backyards can have deadly health effects, an Oireachtas Committee heard today.

Two slash hooks, a bolt-cutter, a saw, a golf club, a hurley, a wheelbrace and several other weapons were seized by gardaí during the eruption of violence today in an 18-month-old family feud in Cork.

FINGERS were firmly crossed in Kerry last night that news was winging its way to the effect that the 2007 Solheim Cup would take place either at Killarney or Ballybunion.