A man who had most of his two-year jail term suspended following a teenager’s death at an orgy of drink and drugs was given another chance to co-operate with the Probation Service after evidence that he was continuing to take drugs and was not co-operating.

A man who had most of his two-year jail sentence suspended in a case following a teenager’s death at an orgy of drink and drugs has failed to co-operate with the Probation Service, it emerged yesterday

Tributes have been paid to a 22-year-old student who lost his battle for life after a swimming accident in the US.

Eight Cork City schoolboys fly out to Kentucky this weekend to pit their skills and technological know-how against students from China, Australia and the USA in the world finals of a prestigious robotics competition.

The Court of Appeal has continued orders preventing a Galway-based woman from reducing the value of her assets until her appeal against a ruling that she must pay one sixth of a €3.3m lotto win to her stepson has been determined.

The €3.3m Lotto winner ordered by the High Court to pay one-sixth of the win to her stepson is to bring the legal battle to a higher court.

A woman being sued over a one-sixth share of a €3.38m Lotto win by her stepson has told the High Court the winning ticket was hers and did not belong to a syndicate.

A solicitor who represented a woman being sued over a one-sixth share of a €3.38m Lotto win has told the High Court that there was no mention to her that a house was being transferred to her client’s stepson instead of cash from the windfall.

Man in court case seeking one sixth of €3.38m Lotto winnings

David Walsh, who is from Knocknagreena in Ballinasloe, is suing his stepmother Mary Walsh for a share in the €3.3m win.

A man suing his stepmother for a €560,000 share of a €3.38m Lotto win has denied he was given a choice between a house or €200,000 from the win.

A dispute between a woman and her stepson over the proceeds of a €3.38m Lotto win will be heard in 2017.

A dispute between a stepmother and her stepson over a one-sixth share in a €3.38m Lotto win has come before the High Court.

The Ballynogluten 100% Gluten Free Roadshow. In association with SuperValu organised by the Coeliac Society of Ireland and held at Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork. 

Plans to open a new €15m psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital are back on track following a breakthrough in talks designed to address concerns over staffing and health and safety issues.

You might normally find money under a mattress but it’s the materials in the mattress itself which have helped get a new recycling business off the ground.

Lovers of the great outdoors will be able to see the first light of the summer solstice in a beautiful setting in June.

IT’S good to talk — or so we are told by the marketing executives.

A man accused of abducting the son of a Limerick post mistress dyed his hair some days after the incident, a jury heard yesterday.

Ever since assuming the role of general vice-president in 1993, Carmel Grealy is to be found in the same location at the Community Games year in, year out — sitting patiently behind the main desk at reception, lending a hand to whoever requires assistance.

Conor O’Kelly, outgoing president Munster Branch of the Irish Hockey Association (MBIHA), has warned the province cannot afford to neglect the running of the game after it took two meetings to elect new management.

The upcoming Big Knit will raise funds for Age Action, writes Rachel Borrill.

ISN’T IT amazing how the greyhound world has changed in a relatively short number of years?

TAXPAYERS claim more than €11 billion a year in tax breaks — 20% of the total tax-take — mostly employee tax credits and pension and housing reliefs.

THE highly progressive Newlawn Tock produced a proper performance to take the final of the Ladbrokes.com Irish Derby Trial Stake at Curraheen Park on Saturday night.

THOUSANDS of miniature terracotta clay figures — including one shaped by Taoiseach Enda Kenny — will be placed in Limerick’s City Hall in a tribute to murdered Shane Geoghegan and all innocent victims of violence.

Dublin: A seminar to launch the publication of Ireland’s Tax Expenditure System: International Comparisons and a Reform Agenda by Dr Micheál L Collins of Trinity’s Department of Economics in conjunction with accountant Mary Walsh will take place next Tuesday in Áras an Phiarsaigh, TCD.

MEMBERS of Shanagarry guild in east Cork enthusiastically entered many sections in the Ballycotton Show on August 15. Their efforts were rewarded and the ladies carried home plenty of prizes.

A brain damaged woman who claimed her injuries were caused as a result of the mismanagement of her epilepsey has settled her action against the HSE for €2.5m.

THEORY is never as much fun as practice which is why Colm McCarthy has a head start on most academics when he takes the podium in lecture halls.

ST MARY’S basketball club from Castleisland have won Basketball Ireland’s Club of the Year award to crown what has been a memorable season which saw them claim the U18 Women’s National Cup, while reaching the semi-finals of the Senior Women’s Cup.

THE new cost-cutting committee dubbed “An Bord Snip Nua” will start advising the Government immediately on areas where public spending can be reduced.

NO SHORTAGE of topics this week, is there?

The Court of Criminal appeal (CCA) has dismissed an appeal brought by a Scottish man against his conviction for the murder of 54-year-old Waterford mother of two Mary "Mamie" Walsh almost three years ago.

A 61-year-old Scottish man was jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin this evening after he was convicted of the murder of 54-year-old Waterford mother-of-two Mary "Mamie" Walsh.

A 54-year-old loan company agent was killed for the money she was due to lodge in the bank, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The trial has started today, at the Central Criminal Court, of a 61-year-old Scottish man accused of the murder of a Waterford woman two years ago.

STAFF at the hospital treating two Limerick children badly burned in an arson attack asked their mother for photos to help them identify what her son once looked like.

AT a deserted inlet at West Cork’s Owenahincha Beach yesterday afternoon, five-year-old Niamh Twomey laid a make-shift cross at the spot where the body of Jonathan Herlihy was found hours earlier.

THE Irish exchequer could find itself paying out millions of euro for loss-making subsidiaries to companies registered in the country based elsewhere in the EU.

MY mother, Brigid Selina Walsh, was born in 1929 in South Kensington, London, and brought up in Nazareth House orphanage in Hammersmith, also in London.