KERRYMAN Timothy J Dowd, who led the manhunt for the notorious Son of Sam serial killer in New York, has died at the age of 99.

All roads led to Boulta for the annual Clonmult/Dungourney point-to-point fixture yesterday and the Denis Leahy-trained newcomer Hawkhurst produced a stunning debut victory in the first division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

Heartbroken girls at Scoil Mháithair Dé in Abbeyfeale cried as a special prayer ceremony took place yesterday.

Meet the rock stars of the future who are getting a helping hand from super-group U2.

A public health emergency is under way after a student was diagnosed with drug-resistant TB, an extremely aggressive form of the disease which has mutated to effectively outgun existing treatments.

Margaret O’Sullivan is looking for her quality-over-quantity approach to pay off in a big way in next week’s Coral Welsh National.

SIX dogs were stolen from an animal sanctuary and office equipment and windows were broken in a weekend raid which has baffled and angered animal welfare staff.

THE busy South Cork guild at Innishannon got the past year off to an altruistic start with two whist card drives which raised proceeds for the Bandon Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber and Rehab.

AS many as 336 people have been screened for Tuberculosis, half of them twice, in an effort to identify who is behind an outbreak of the disease in a Cork primary school where 48 people have been infected.

ANOTHER child has been diagnosed with full-blown TB at a Cork primary school and six more cases of latent infection have been detected, bringing to 47 the number of pupils and staff infected with the disease.

A TB outbreak at a Cork primary school where 40 people have been infected has exhibited “an extraordinarily high rate of attack” and confounded public health officials who have been unable to identify the source.

THE number of children diagnosed with tuberculosis at a Cork primary school has risen to 37, but the source of infection has still not been found even though screening of pupils and staff is complete.

THE headmaster of a Cork primary school where 25 children have contracted tuberculosis said there is concern in the wider community that the source of infection has not yet been found.

PUBLIC health officials dealing with an outbreak of tuberculosis which has infected 25 children at a Cork school have requested that junior infants due to start school next week be prioritised for vaccination.

Parents of children at a Cork primary school — where the numbers infected with tuberculosis (TB) have risen to 25 — want every child in the school to receive the TB vaccination as a matter of priority.

THE number of primary school children infected with tuberculosis at a Cork school has risen to 25 since screening began over a week ago.

AS the screening of 220 pupils and teachers from Ballintemple National School began, there was no sense of panic at St Finbarr’s hospital.

SPECIAL arrangements are being made for children who are expected to need X-rays and paediatric referrals following an outbreak of tuberculosis which will delay the re-opening of a Cork city primary school until September 6.

VOLUNTARY screening for tuberculosis (TB) among EU workers in Ireland would help combat the disease that has forced a Cork school to defer re-opening after three pupils were infected.

MORE than 200 primary school children are to be screened for TB at a Cork school just days before the start of a new term.

ALAIVAN is a best-priced 8/1 favourite for the JCB Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham in the wake of his impressive hurdle debut victory at Gowran Park yesterday.

A PRINCE is expected to visit a Cork school next year which his mother, the late Princess Grace of Monaco, helped nearly 50 years ago.

THE Margaret O’Sullivan-trained Oscar Delta confirmed the positive impression he created when shedding his maiden tag at Ballindenisk in December by landing a very competitive renewal of the winners of one at the Carbery Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Kilpatrick yesterday.

JESSICA HARRINGTON’S Give It Time, who won her maiden at Navan by 22 lengths, stepped up to Listed company in style when taking the Dawn Omega Milk EBF Mares Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

A TUBERCULOSIS vaccine routinely given to newborns, with the exception of babies born in Cork, would have cost the Government little more than €16,500 when the Southern Health Board (SHB) sought funding in 2001.

RESCREENING for TB has begun among children and adults caught up in an outbreak of the disease which has left 21 people infected.

EXPERTS handling the biggest TB outbreak on recent record have predicted further cases of the disease among children at two Cork crèches.

EXPERTS in public health medicine, disease surveillance and respiratory illness will gather in Cork on Monday night to address parents of children attending two creches where 19 people have been diagnosed with TB.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) is to set up additional vaccination clinics on Monday for children attending two Cork creches where the number of TB cases has risen to 16.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has taken the unusual step of requesting chest X-rays for two groups of toddlers who tested negative for TB at two Cork creches.

THOUSANDS of people paid their last respects yesterday to a couple described as “warm, loving and generous parents”, who were tragically killed by a hit and run driver while on holiday in Mallorca.

AN Irish couple yesterday told how they cheated death on their honeymoon after a stolen car ploughed into a crowded pavement on the Las Vegas strip.

THE Irish couple killed in a hit and run in Spain were on a holiday paid for by their three children to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

Studies carried out by the Health Service Executive have found that children’s school and home environments are contributing to the growing problem of obesity in Ireland.

TWO factories in Killarney, Co Kerry, are to close with the loss of nearly 100 jobs because of competition from China.

STAFF who handle food could pose a health risk to consumers if they are ill or do not wash their hands, experts warned yesterday.