2010 has been designated the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.

BORD BIA is predicting that the market environment for sheep meat this year will be largely dependent on developments in relation to the euro/sterling exchange rate and consumer demand.

TEACHERS normally discourage telling tales out of school, but the crowd who gathered to protest against education cuts were agog to hear what Joe O’Toole had to say.

AS a nation we are prone to addiction. We have long struggled with our dependence on alcohol and all of the ills it has wreaked upon our society.

ALCOHOL played a key role in the death of a woman in a house fire in Cork last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

A WOMAN who was rescued from a fire which claimed the life of her life-long friend survived a previous house fire.

LEGAL action is being considered after bouncers blocked 15 young Traveller cousins from attending a teenage Hallowe’en disco in Cork’s City Hall.

THE funeral of a young mother which divided two families who brought their dispute to a High Court judge has been recalled at an inquest in Limerick.

TUG-OF-LOVE woman Kathleen McCarthy O’Reilly is to be buried by her parents in Askeaton, Co Limerick, on Friday next by order of the High Court.

FURIOUS residents in Mallow’s sprawling southside have called on O2 not to go ahead with the provision of mobile telephone antennae on a chimney at the local Micam plant.

I AM an ordinary housewife with two young children. We should be enjoying the summer here in our home in west Cork.

Men whose mothers take aspirin during pregnancy could suffer low sex drives, scientists reported today.

OH what a perfect start. Just minutes after the Cheltenham three-day festival began, the Irish were belting out a distorted version of Olé in the winners’ enclosure.

CORK CITY last night announced the signing of Neale Fenn and new sponsorship contracts worth an accumulated €750,000 over four years.