A volunteer emergency medical group says a powerful new top-of-the-range, powerful vehicle will help it save more lives in the community.

Complaints about the condition of horses on land near where a teenage boy died at the weekend prompted investigations last year, it has emerged.

A teenage boy is fighting for his life after he was thrown from a horse in to a swollen river on the outskirts of Cork city this evening.

A mother has credited a special, anchor-fitting baby seat for saving her baby’s life in a horror car crash.

An appeal has been made for people with medical training to help expand a life-saving rapid response service in East Cork.

GARDAÍ believe that 43-year-old John Butler killed his two daughters at their home in east Cork before dousing his car in petrol and deliberately crashing it at high speed into a ditch.

THE inquest into the death of two-year-old Arran Malley has recorded a verdict of accidental death and recommended a series of vital changes to prevent a repeat of the tragedy.