Garda whistleblowers should not be “buried” or “suffer reprisal” when they make allegations of malpractice, middle-ranking officers have said.

The principal at the school where 8-year-old Ultan Hayes attended has said pupils and staff are “utterly devastated” by the young boy’s death.

An eight-year-old schoolboy had made his first confession only hours before sustaining fatal injuries in a quad bike accident.

Cork Prison is being hit by a “perfect storm” of high committal numbers, crumbling facilities, serious overcrowding, and poor mental health services.

Up to 60% of inmates at Cork Prison have been jailed for the non-payment of court fines.

Six out of 10 people sent to Cork Prison are jailed for non-payment of court fines, putting huge pressure on the system.

JIM COLLINS jumps up out of his seat as soon as we enter the room.

Eddie Nolan, one of the best known figures in the Irish motoring industry and the early force behind the Ford Cork Week sailing regatta, died at the weekend.

The map which illustrates the article (County, Feb 28) on the West Cork Railway is marred by failing to indicate Drimoleague whose station had a pre-eminent position in that section of the railway.

The people, the stories and the quirky traditions surrounding the trains of West Cork are to be immortalised in a TV series that begins this week.

An inquest into the death of an inmate at Cork Prison has heard that he died after swallowing the inside lining of his duvet.

THE proliferation of betting offices is continuing in Kerry with An Bord Pleanála giving the green light for the retention and completion of such a facility in Rathmore.

A PRISONER had to get almost 100 stitches after being slashed in the face and back by another inmate in the state’s most overcrowded prison.

RESIDENTS are ready to take legal action to save their estate’s green from developers.

PRISON officers have isolated inmates carrying out a “dirty protest” in Cork Prison in a bid to thwart their attempt at throwing the jail’s punishment unit into chaos.

Amazon.com celebrated its 10th anniversary with an all-star line-up that included rock legend Bob Dylan and singing sensation Norah Jones, and streamed the event live to its website.

IT has been raining in Fermanagh most of the week, but no spirits have been dampened around Lisnaskea. As they say in these parts, it’s been a wild good summer.

Jim Collins sculpture "The Watcher", which was stolen last Tuesday night from the grounds of Kilkenny Castle, has been retrieved.

THE humble spud could face extinction in a sun-sizzling Ireland within two generations.