A memorial consisting of three standing stones will honour West Cork men who lost their lives in service during the First World War.

Elderly women with serious intellectual disabilities have been kicked, slapped, dragged across the floor and treated as "non-persons" by health workers in a special HSE facility meant to ensure their care.

A nurse — a mother-of-two on her way to work — died in an early morning crash yesterday which also claimed the life of an elderly driver.

A disabled chef has been forced to live in appalling conditions in a mobile home for over four years due to a lack of funding for social housing maintenance and repairs.

Two nuns have given evidence to the Central Criminal Court on behalf of a 23-year-old man on trial for the murder of his father.

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.

FOUR of the biggest landowners in Cork’s sprawling docklands confirmed last night they have combined to drive forward the region’s multibillion regeneration.

NEW guidelines to help fight the ‘latchkey school kid’ phenomenon were launched yesterday.

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AN initiative by Limerick childcare workers to encourage more people to provide after-school care will help more parents remain in full-time employment, according to Mary Moloney of the Limerick Childcare Committee.

SIMPLY sweetening up a diet can help people lose more weight, an Irish study shows.

A WIDOW whose late husband's inquest was put back just hours before it was due to be heard has called for a system that cares more about grieving families.