Cork is to get just 14 of the latest garda probationers to graduate from the force’s training college.

The Taoiseach has yet to speak with the Garda Commissioner about staffing levels in Cork but has promised that numbers will increase across the country.

Calls have been made on the Government to increase the number of gardaí deployed and to end a recruitment embargo which has lead to significant gaps in drug addiction services.

Hundreds of protestors marched through the streets of Cork city today to protest the proposed closure of the Cork Mail Centre in Little Island.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has insisted “magic money” is not being used to pay for overruns for the children's hospital while pledging that cash will be found to fund the project.

Sinn Féin’s Liadh Ní Riada has conceded in the Ireland South constituency in the European Elections.

Additional staff from outside Cork are set to be drafted in to ensure as speedy a conclusion to the full recount in Ireland South which begins tomorrow.

Sinn Féin has defended the decision to call a recount in the Ireland South European elections - claiming a price cannot be put on democracy.

The race for seats in Ireland South has heated up as Labour candidate Shelia Nunan and Fine Gael's Andrew Doyle have both been eliminated in the 15th count.

The senior civil servant on the board of the National Children's Hospital has told the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee that he did nothing wrong by not telling cabinet ministers about the cost overruns associated with the project.

A politician was thrown out of Friday night's Cork City vs St Patrick's Athletic League of Ireland soccer match by gardaí after a crowd protest against FAI executive vice president John Delaney.

More than 600 children under the age of four are living in Ireland's asylum seeker system.

The cross-party Oireachtas committee examining Ireland's abortion laws has voted by a landslide not to retain article 40.3.3 of the Constitution.

The cross-party committee examining Ireland's abortion laws is set for a divisive meeting this afternoon after Fianna Fáil was accused by Ruth Coppinger of being "dinosaurs" for attempting to block an early repeal vote on the issue.

Crisis-hit Garda Commissioner Noirin O'Sullivan has insisted she is "not privy to, nor would I approve, nor would I condone" any targeted campaign by officers to silence whistleblowers in the force, write Fiachra Ó Cionnaith of the Irish Examiner.

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The Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald says she is concerned by revelations about fixed charged motoring offences.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has launched a stinging attack on Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams comparing him to former Fianna Fáil leader Bertie Ahern.

The Highway 6 have pleaded with the filling station landlord to help end their week-old sit-in after securing a major breakthrough yesterday.

Cork City Council has backed the Highway 6 workers engaged in a filling station sit-in and accused their former employer of treating them appallingly.

Up to 150,000 people are out on streets up and down the country in protest against water charges.

A reserve fund for Irish credit unions is €50m lower than initially thought, it has emerged.

The Government has comfortably defeated a Sinn Féin call in the Dáil for the introduction of abortion legislation to protect the life of women.

New figures show over 4,000 drug seizures were recorded at the country's jails over a three-year period.

Sinn Féin has called on the Government to ensure that the recommendations of the Mahon tribunal report are implemented promptly.

Around 700 people held a protest in West Cork last night, during the Taoiseach's visit to the town of Bantry.

The Government has been urged to reverse the scrapping of a free and anonymous phone line which the public could use to report suspected drug dealing in their area.

With all bar four of the 43 constituencies in the General Election finished counting, the country’s political scene has undergone a sea change.

Former Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin has failed to retain her seat in Dun Laoghaire. Richard Boyd Barrett won the seat, bringing the haul of seats for Independents and others to 17.

The election of Fine Gael's Mary Mitchell O'Connor in Dun Laoghaire brings to 141 the total number of seats filled so far (from a total of 166).

Labour's Kathleen Lynch was elected in Cork North Central overnight.

Sinn Féin's Jonathan O'Brien is the frontrunner in the election for the Cork North Central constituency after the first count.

In Cork North Central, there has been a rally in votes for Fianna Fáil's Billy Kelleher in final boxes, meaning he may top the poll by a slender margin, and now seems sure to secure a seat.

Bill George