Brian Veale, aged 31, was yesterday jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court for murdering Graham Johnson in the kitchen of Cork Prison by stabbing him through the heart with a carving knife.

Two students were arrested and charged yesterday arising out of the investigation into the death of a man who allegedly ingested a drug known as N-bomb in Cork City in January.

A man caught fraudulently claiming social welfare payments in Cork has been ordered to leave the country by Monday, with a judge warning she would prefer “never to see him again”.

A DETECTIVE searching the home of a man accused of money laundering believed the accused was part of an IRA gang that included another man caught at a railway station with a large amount of euro cash in a Daz washing powder box.

A DIFFERENT type of Garda reserve was rolled out in Cork city yesterday.