An American tourist in his 50s who was airlifted from the top of the landmark Blarney Castle in Cork after suffering a heart attack is recovering in hospital.

A family trapped by snow have issued an emotional thank you to an “army of angels” who helped ensure the safe delivery of a very special snow-storm baby.

Senior gardaí and medics have called for increased parental supervision around teenage discos after a dozen drunk children — three of whom were unconscious and had to be hospitalised — arrived at an underage alcohol-free disco in West Cork.

Clubs, societies, and community groups throughout West Cork are being urged to throw their support behind a massive fundraising drive to pay for €72,000 worth of life-saving medical kits for the voluntary West Cork Rapid Response service.

A new “network” of volunteer personnel from across the emergency services has been established to support the work of the hugely successful West Cork Rapid Response service.

Technology played a leading part in the management of this year’s Cork City Marathon, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

A Cork student pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter last Christmas.

A new RTÉ documentary will focus on the unsung hero doctors who save lives in their spare time by bringing pre-hospital emergency care to roadside crashes and emergencies.

The search for missing student Barry Davis Ryan will continue this morning, as a doctor on the scene of Tuesday’s tragedy praised the “valiant” and “phenomenal” efforts of rescue teams who took Barry Ryan Sr and Niamh O’Connor from the sea near Baltimore.

THE barometers used by the fishermen of old would have told you, if you needed telling in the first place.

A network of specially trained volunteers, who can be called on to attend cardiac victims before an ambulance arrives, is being rolled out across the country.

They organised pub quizzes, race nights, raffles and walks to buy and equip it. And after a marathon community effort, they’ve been able to present a state-of-the-art emergency response jeep to a trauma doctor who could one day save their life.

Courageous abuse survivor Louise O’Keeffe is set to take on the State again over its “insulting” settlement offer arising out of her landmark legal case.

It’s ladies to the fore as the 2014 Cork Person of the Year will be announced this week.

It was a tough summer for music promoter Peter Aiken who was at the centre of the Garth Brooks concert fiasco.

A major fundraising drive kicks off across West Cork this weekend to secure a top-of-the-range emergency response vehicle for a doctor who has saved dozens of lives — in his spare time.

A hospital doctor involved for many years in voluntary life-saving work has been honoured.

A new telemedicine centre in Cork University Hospital (CUH) will help save lives and offer a better level of care to people in accident situations, especially at sea.

The life-saving rescue of a man left hanging upside-down from a tree 20 feet above the ground by his severely broken leg has been captured by RTÉ’s flagship rescue series.

A 13-month-old baby boy died after ingesting a 5cm metal screw that lodged deep in his windpipe.

THE mother of a young man who died in a car crash has warned teenagers they are not invincible.