Monaghan’s Josh Moffett and his Limerick co-driver Keith Moriarty (Ford Fiesta WRC) claimed the Hotel Kilmore Cavan Rally yesterday.

Cork driver and four-time British Rally Champion Keith Cronin will campaign the new generation Hyundai i20 R5-N in this year’s British Rally Championship that includes rounds of the World Rally Championship (Wales Rally GB) and the European Rally Championship (Rally Ypres).

After a dramatic opening on the final leg of the Easter Rally in Antrim, when the Subaru WRC of overnight leaders Derek McGarrity/Paddy Robinson failed to start after transmission troubles, Monaghan’s Josh Moffett (Ford Fiesta R5) and his Wexford co-driver Andy Hayes took the spoils and consolidated their lead in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.

Eight-month-old twins have to sleep in Moses baskets in a rat-infested home shared with their Traveller parents and seven young siblings, the High Court was told yesterday.

Eight-month-old twins have to sleep in Moses baskets in a rat-infested home shared with their Traveller parents and seven young siblings, the High Court was told yesterday.

Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran listens with a ferocious level of concentration. He has some memory. Because he cares. Because he works, writes Terry Prone.

A former principal of a gaelscoil in Co Cork was formally arrested yesterday for the purpose of being charged with deception in relation to enrolment information.

Monaghan’s Sam Moffett came out on top against younger brother Josh at the Clonmel-based Sepam Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally.

The Irish pair of Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle (Citroen DS3 WRC) took their maiden victory in a round of the World Rally Championship when they triumphed in Rally Argentina, round four of the series.

A former Christian Brother has gone on trial in Cork on charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s. The judge and jury were told yesterday of the complainant’s nightmares of ghosts of men in black.

A man has made an appeal on social media for the return of items stolen from his home over Christmas.

The teenager who was the most violent in the attack on a French visitor in Cork City was later seen on CCTV giving a youth a celebratory high five and yesterday he was sentenced to two years in detention.

It was an almost universal rite of passage in pre-pastoral culture that young men were sent to the forest or savannah, jungle or distant mountain range to single-handedly kill the wolf, the lion, the grizzly bear or whichever animal represented the greatest challenge to his community. If that young man returned with a trophy, his path to life’s next milestone was open and success a possibility. If he did not, it was no more than evolution in action and the tribe moved on.

It was a victory to savour for the locals as Donegal cousins Declan Boyle and Brian Boyle (Subaru) won the Letterkenny-based Donegal International Rally, round four of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship.

Minister for Health, Dr James O’Reilly, is enduring criticism that might not be the justified.

Up to 5,000 people are due to descend on Cork this week for the inaugural World Mini-Games.

An estimated 5,000 people are expected to participate in everything from power-lifting to barefoot running, hockey eights, and a motograss championship when Cork’s first World Mini Games kicks off next month.

A heroic father drowned after jumping into seas off the Wexford coast after two of three teenage boys got into difficulties while swimming.

For many with phobias of lifts and being stuck in one, the scenario that Ministers Kathleen Lynch and James O’Reilly endured in Grangegorman, though horrendous, was tempered by having doctors and psychiatrists entrapped with them.

Improved journey times on the M8 motorway have seen Dublin gangs targeting Cork for burglaries, it was claimed yesterday, as three men were jailed for attempted burglary.

The man behind a major sports event in Cork for The Gathering hit out at Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary last night, pleading with him to “cut out the negative bullshit” about the initiative.

A young woman who stole rings valued at €60,000 from her mother and stole more rings from her grandmother was given a suspended two-year jail sentence yesterday.

I am flabbergasted at the level of betrayal from our Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.

The exchequer could make sizeable savings if more generic medicines were made available in Ireland, members of the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) were told at their annual weekend-long conference in Galway.

James O’Reilly and his pals on the Ballincollig junior B football team had an idea.

A Venezuelan transsexual dressed in lingerie answered the door to Cork detectives investigating a reported brothel, but the accused denied a charge yesterday of being party to the use of the premises as a brothel.

I am writing to express my concern about the fluoride that is in the mains water in Ireland.

NEW taxes are on the way that could spell doom for some in the food industry.

A CORK mother of seven has told Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, that she can solve his presidential election dilemma — if he asks her for help.

TIM McNULTY and co-driver Paul Kiely (Subaru WRC) won their sixth event in the Dunlop National Rally Championship with victory in the Auburn Lodge Hotel Clare Rally to clinch the national series.

IRISH soccer legend John Aldridge will line out with some of the game’s greats for a sports festival which aims to raise funds for a town’s sporting clubs.

THERE have been calls for the Minister for Health to intervene in at University College Hospital Galway (UCHG) after it was found to be the worst-performing hospital in the country for the second month running.

JAMES GLEESON (March 15) should think again about giving a tumultuous “cead mile fáilte” to the visits of dignitaries as he puts it. A rogues gallery would be more appropriate.

Ireland’s new Taoiseach Enda Kenny has unveiled his new Cabinet with a shake-up of some Government departments.

OUR circumstances are chaotic but they could get still worse if we lose focus on the only, the very last, game in town.

ALMOST 18,000 operations were called off in hospitals last year as the number of cancellations rose substantially for the second year in a row.

PATIENT groups at Tallaght Hospital said people are “extremely worried” about the quality of care there after the Health Service Executive confirmed that 3,500 referral letters from GPs were not opened by consultants, on top of the 58,000 X-rays that had not been read by radiologists.

TÁNAISTE Mary Coughlan caused uproar in the Dáil yesterday when she accused the opposition of indulging in “political opportunism” over the Tallaght Hospital X-ray scandal.

UP TO 30,000 schoolgirls will be vaccinated free of charge against cervical cancer later this year following a dramatic reversal of Government policy.

THE compensation bill for victims of residential abuse will be significantly increased following a High Court ruling.

NEWS that almost 4,000 patients were treated by the same consultant on the National Treatment Purchase Fund as they were on the public health service has been described as typical of the health service “duplication and expense”.

FINE Gael health spokesperson Dr James O’Reilly said recently that HSE staff expenses will have to be cut.