A former banker, turned financial consultant, played on the worries of friends and acquaintances about the safety of banking money in Ireland in 2011 and got them to pay him €145,000 by deception.

Teenagers are close to raising a five-figure sum to help domestic violence victims with a social media campaign that has gone global in just six days.

Enable Ireland has issued an urgent appeal for donations after road works contributed to a 20% drop in donations to its Cork city charity shops.

Contamination of our recycling bins is becoming more widespread, according to new survey from Repak.

It takes two to tango. And when your partner is internet giant Google, your dance is going to go global.

Fire Show

Choreographer Laura Murphy is planning something very new and different for this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival.

This week the show looks at ISO and what this standards certificate can mean for your business. Kehlan also meets Laura Murphy from Zappy who discusses what building an app can bring to your business. We also feature WhizzKids, the after school and summer camps programme, which lets young people explore possible careers in the computer industries. Finally the show meets the SME in Galway which services over three million people and is targeting one billion as a very real target.

Supported by the Arts Council, Cork City Council, and the Firkin Crane, Laura Murphy is Cork’s Dancer in Residence at Firkin Crane for 2013/2014. Originally from Kinsale, this highly-qualified dance artist, performer and choreographer is bubbling over with ideas.

Want to get your rear in gear? Laura Murphy, from Fitnessworx Gym, shows six high-energy exercises you can do at home.

On the subject of GAA players being forced to play on a championship match on a Friday, I want to voice the implications of this personally for the players, their families and colleagues, and also professionally for the players and the organisations who employ them.

It’s the final week of our challenge — ‘drop a dress size for Christmas’.

It’s week five of our six-week programme — Drop a Dress Size for Christmas.

Why not get ready for Christmas in the best possible way and try our LBD diet and fitness programme and drop a dress size in just six weeks.

A TAOISEACH should be automatically re-elected to the Dáil at the end of his or her term, Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has suggested.

The ambulance that took Brian Murphy to hospital after he had been violently beaten outside the Burlington Hotel was slow to take him away because they thought he was intoxicated with drink, a witness has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.