I’m concerned about the terminology used in media coverage of human trafficking.

In responding to the bishops’ objection to the new abortion bill, Enda Kenny conceded the Church’s “right to their own opinion” but said that “my book is the Constitution”.

Three designated Blue Flag beaches are among seven bathing spots in Co Cork where dangerous levels of E.coli have been found.

As a 29-year-old lay Catholic I thought I might offer my own opinion on the Fr Flannery debacle.

Televisions should be removed from children’s bedrooms, an expert leading an EU-funded project on childhood obesity has urged.

A prison officer enjoying a lunchtime jog stumbled on uneven tarmac and fell under an oncoming lorry, an inquest heard.

While it sticks rigidly to best practice in its operations and avoids environmental issues that plague other sites, Bottlehill landfill has serious problems, writes Claire O’Sullivan

TWO city officials were denied access to the Irish Sky Garden during a visit to Chelsea to see how public money was being spent.

GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to an accident which claimed the life of a prison officer in Cork city.

IT hasn’t been an especially long journey for Kilmichael, but that is what makes it all the more remarkable.

TWO disabled Belarusian girls destined for a life in grim mental institutions have achieved their dream of walking — thanks to 14 corrective operations carried out by Irish surgeons.

A REVIEW of the Bottlehill landfill licence was conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over six months of this year – without any EPA officials actually visiting the site.

AFTER years of service to Limerick football on the field, Michéal Reidy tonight slips into a different role outside the white lines.

“IT looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off, it looked like Hiroshima.”

OLIVE LOUGHNANE was barely off the plane from Beijing last year when she set about planning her onslaught on a medal at this year’s world championships in Berlin.

Tommy Barker warms to The Mill, a spacious property in Kerry with an outstanding array of features.

A CO Limerick publican was last night recovering from a horror attack in which he was forced at gunpoint to torch his €60,000 2008 Audi coupe after he was abducted from his home in Abbeyfeale.

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.

IT came late, very late, but big Mark O’Sullivan’s 59th minute goal was crucial as Dripsey saw off stubborn Carrignavar to reach their first Evening Echo Cork Co JHC decider in their short history under lights at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

AFTER years of defeat in both hurling and football, Carrigaline finally came good at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday by winning the Cork IHC title for the first time with a 1-13 to 0-10 win over Bandon.

FR CASEY’S secured the last place in the Limerick SFC semi-finals.

THE two little girls playing tea party in the sparse room of the orphanage caught John O’Riordan’s eye.

ROBERT HEFFERNAN flew into Cork Airport yesterday on the last leg of his return flight from South Africa and the Corkman was flying so high after the last 10 days of his 22-day training camp at altitude that he could have done it without a plane.

THE date for next year’s Cork City Sports has been put back to accommodate the US Olympic trials, the Russian championships and the Caribbean countries whose championships coincide with the US championships.

A QUARTER of the population is obese but doctors and nurses are not getting enough support in tackling the problem, an independent GP group has claimed.

Two new centres for the morbidly obese are to be opened next year at Mercy University Hospital in Cork and University College Hospital in Galway. While these should, of course, be warmly welcomed, people should at the same time ask why this has taken so long?

A TOP Limerick hurler is believed to be the latest sportsman to die from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.

PEOPLE battling the bulge are being warned against getting too excited over a new vaccine being developed to prevent obesity.

IT is easy to forget that only two years ago, Olive Loughnane was the 12th fastest female race-walker in the world over 20k. But the statistic seemed to get lost in the hysteria after her team-mate and friend Gillian O’Sullivan claimed a world championship silver in Paris.

SIXTY homes were evacuated in a new estate in Gorey, Co Wexford, yesterday morning, after a resident who had earlier received a threatening letter found a suspect device on the windowsill of her family home.

FAIR play to John O’Riordan for his letter headlined ‘Anglo United - the new Irish dream team’ (Irish Examiner, February 19).

WHAT the British couldn’t achieve in 800 years of occupation here has now been secured in less than a decade.

THE Environmental Protection Agency last night granted a local authority a licence to operate what is likely to be the biggest super dump in the country.

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I READ with interest your article on the sales of Ballygowan bottled water (Irish Examiner, July 3) and was amazed that it costs €4.40 per half-litre (pub price).

THE waste management crisis in Cork took another turn for the worse yesterday with the announcement that serious objections are to be made to An Bord Pleanála over a 56 million landfill county council plan.

A DAIRY farmer claimed yesterday that his business could be ruined if Cork County Council is allowed, over the next 20 years, bury 5.3 million tonnes of waste at a proposed landfill in Bottlehill.

ANGRY residents given assurances that a 250-acre superdump would not open prior to the building of a rubbish separating plant claim these promises have been reneged upon.