Man, 30, told gardaí he would harm local schoolchildren and wanted to commit ‘suicide by cop’

US multi-national tech company Apple is to start paying €13bn in back taxes the European Commission claims is owed to Ireland into a special holding account after a year of delays over the funds, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Ireland is losing out on billions of euro every year because eight of the 100 most lucrative Irish-based multinationals pay no corporation tax and five more have a tax bill of less than 1%.

Ireland is losing out on billions of euro every year because eight of the 100 most lucrative Irish-based multinationals pay no corporation tax and five more have a tax bill of less than 1%.

Eight of the 100 highest earning Irish-based multi-nationals are paying no corporation tax whatsoever, five have a tax bill of less than 1% and others are effectively being paid by the taxman because of serious loopholes in the tax system.

Every year the programme attracts thousands of viewers and stands as their most popular special, next to the Toy Show of course.

A fishy excuse for having a knife in suspicious circumstances failed to get a man off the hook yesterday and he was ordered to do 200 hours of community service.

The authors of a new book on Beamish & Crawford describe how the brewery’s founding families played a huge role in Cork’s cultural life

A wheelchair user has been sentenced to five years in prison for indecently assaulting a girl during the 1980s.

The 19th century Cork artist, Daniel MacDonald, was the only painter brave enough to paint the Famine as it was happening, and Professor Niamh O’Sullivan is appealing to people in the Cork area to scour their attics for his valuable work.

Despite claiming that physical activity in schools and decreasing childhood obesity are two of her big issues, Senator Catherine Noone would seem to have started a campaign to prevent one of the world’s fastest growing sports from increasing in popularity.

It is sad to think that Dr. Ali Selim’s attempt to stifle free speech - through threat of legal action against any Irish publication that reprints Charlie Hebdo’s front page depiction of the Prophet Muhammad – can currently be supported by our nation’s laws. 

Consumers whose mortgages or other loans have been transferred to unregulated entities will receive the same protection as was the case prior to their loan being sold — even if the transfer took place prior to the introduction of new legislation.

The 18th century apostle of temperance Fr Mathew is as relevant in today’s alcohol-soaked Ireland as he ever was, several leading historians have suggested.

Delays in obtaining an Irish property licence have forced the postponement of the sale of contents from Bantry House, due to have taken place on October 21.

NOT every house can boast a suite of tapestries given as a gift by the King of France to his future daughter-in-law, Marie-Antoinette.

Even though the catalogue is still in the course of preparation, the Irish Examiner can today offer a sneak preview of treasures from Bantry House to be sold by Edinburgh-based auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull on October 21.

A new exhibition at the Crawford Art Gallery explores the brief career of Samuel Forde, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan

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JP Morgan and Chase, seeking to end probes of a $6.2bn (€4.6bn) trading debacle, admitted to violating federal securities laws and agreed to pay about $920m for failing to implement adequate controls and providing incomplete information to regulators and its board.

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THE fascinating archive of businessman Richard Dowden, who was the mayor of Cork in 1845, has finally been catalogued after a painstaking 12-month project by staff at the Cork City and County Archives.

Community organisations in west Waterford are to get live information on crimes and suspicious activity as part of a new text alert system.

The Department of Finance has announced its first ever head of Banking Policy in its Financial Services Division.

Tommy Barker visits a Cork landmark, a truly unique family home

Perhaps a collective sadomasochistic streak throughout the nation is to blame.

A detail of Indoors Outdoors by Louis le Brocquy, estimated at €500,000-€800,000 for Adams’ sale on Wednesday.

A new collection of essays from Irish academics attempts to put our financial crisis into perspective, but there is still a palpable anger in the book over what was allowed to happen, writes Brian O’Grady

THE system used by Fianna Fáil to select candidates to run for elections has developed into “a farce”, a party councillor in north Tipperary has claimed.

THE son of former government minister Michael Smith is to challenge outgoing TD Máire Hoctor to run for Fianna Fáil in the general election in the North Tipperary constituency.

THE newly formed Horticulture Action Group is to meet for the first time tomorrow to discuss its implementation of the Food Harvest 2020 Report.

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THE proposed new singular structure for financial regulation in Ireland – combining the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator – will be better placed to take a systemic overview of the entire banking sector, rather than just a case-by-case basis, officials from the Department of Finance told a Dáil committee yesterday.

GARDAÍ ruled out foul play last night following the discovery of a man’s body in a house on the outskirts of Cork city.

TWO goals in a minute early in the second-half powered Dripsey to a comfortable victory over Modeligo in the AIB Munster JHC quarter-final at the splendid Coachford venue yesterday.

A FATHER who threw his two children off a hotel balcony, killing his son, won permission to launch a High Court challenge yesterday against an inquest verdict of unlawful killing.

No action is to be taken in the UK against a man who threw his six-year-old son to his death from a hotel balcony in Crete, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said today.

The mother of a six-year-old English boy who fell to his death from a hotel balcony has urged the British authorities to prosecute his father for pushing him.

LIKE his two brothers, who both killed themselves, John Hogan has been dogged with clinical depression since childhood.