A visitor to Cork City witnessed the man accused of murdering his girlfriend catching her by the throat and shouting at her in Cork City on Saturday afternoon before she was found dead early on Sunday morning in a squat.

Former GAA president Dr Mick Loftus was amongst the attendance yesterday at the funeral Mass of Down-born Joe McGrath who achieved notable successes as a hurling, football and camogie coach over the past 40 years while living in Cork.

Galway’s longest serving player Padraic Joyce has decided to retire after 15 years of top-flight football.

TRIBUTES poured in last night for teenager Aoife Downey who was killed in a tragic sledging accident in Cork at the weekend.

THE investigation into the Air India crash is ongoing and arrests may yet be made, according to the man leading the hunt for terrorists who blew up flight 182, exactly 20 years ago today.