The L-shaped Stone House has been tastefully nestled in Rossbrin cove since 2000, says Tommy Barker

A 20- year old man who was abused as a child by a neighbour who threatened to slit the throats of his parents if he told, has been awarded €200,000 by the High Court.

Tommy Barker admires a reasonably-priced home in the scheme just across the Douglas River from Rochestown.

A re-mastering of The Dawn, the Killarney-inspired 1930s film that was Ireland’s first full-length talkie, drew an extraordinary crowd at the Killarney Cineplex for its first screening.

The State has been strongly urged by the Supreme Court to make a “significant” ex gratia payment to a man after finding he should never have been prosecuted for public order offences arising from a dispute over cattle between neighbours in West Cork 19 years ago.

The Paul Hennessy-trained, John Turner-owned Jaytee Valencia is the inaugural Gain Cup champion following a doughty performance in Saturday night’s decider at Curraheen Park.

Albert Hammond has enjoyed record sales of 360m, possibly making him the greatest songwriter you’ve never heard of. He tells Joe Dermody about creating hits for everyone from Joe Dolan to The Carpenters

Heavy weaponry and witness intimidation made Limerick’s gangs almost untouchable in the previous decade. Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe speaks to the man who ended their reign of terror.

Our family were probably the first tourists in Baltimore,” quips Stuart Musgrave, as he prepares to sell his family’s current base on Cove Road in this appealing West Cork village, known far and wide, and over the seas, for its tourism, sailing, ferries and fishing.

This year was the year of the Big Ask, but of a lot less delivery, in the multi-million euro house sale league.

A man has denied shooting a pregnant woman and a man in front of two children in a violent family feud.

A corner shop in one of the very best locations in West Cork’s Clonakilty has come for sale — after three generations in the one family’s ownership, and several lucky Lotto jackpot sales as well.

Tommy Barker discovers a sense of airiness within this detached home that is all nicely modern but not flashy.

When 69-year-old Francis Kennedy stepped onto flight EI105 from Dublin to New York last Friday it was the Co Tipperary man’s first time on a plane.

The beautiful West Cork village has an air of France about it, discovers Conor Power.

I’ve been going back over the records and I make it that Cork and Waterford have met 11 times in the championship since 2000.

The overall Carbery milk supplier award winners for 2011 were John and Deirdre McCarthy, Butlerstown, who supply Barryroe Co-op.

The offertory gifts were the essential tools of any 19-year-old woman — lip gloss, mobile phone and an iPod.

The mother of two young footballers at the centre of a 'Parish rule' row stormed out of a Kerry County Committee meeting last night before votes on the matter were counted.

HERE is a new song.

THEY thought about moving, they thought about going all contemporary on makeover and extension front – and eventually this couple of practicing architects went the seemingly modest route for their own family home.

WHAT a cracking opening to the 2009 Munster senior hurling championship!

WELCOME to the Munster championship, and welcome to Thurles, the home of Cork hurling!

THE alliance between the McCarthy and Dundon families goes back to the early 1970s, when one of the McCarthy family from Ballincurra Weston married Kenneth Dundon whose family came from Ballynanty, across the city.

A SPLIT has developed in one of Limerick’s feud gangs over moves to call a truce.

THE discovery yesterday of a body partly buried in open ground in Limerick is almost certainly the 10th tit-for-tat murder in the continuing feud between two rival drugs gangs.

Tommy Barker says Jacob Island’s homes are a class apart.

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

A British couple had an unexpected celebrity guest at their wedding reception - pop queen Madonna.

A MURDER trial in Tralee heard the brother of the deceased testify yesterday that he saw the accused man showing no mercy as he drove a slash hook through his brother, who was lying on the ground.

Five members of a Limerick crime gang jailed for their part in a pitched battle with rival criminals outside a fast food outlet in the city today had their sentences reduced.

ONE of the best known private nursing homes in Limerick has decided to close down for business reasons.

This is what many hurling fans have been waiting for all summer long - the historic All-Ireland quarter-finals on successive Croke Park Sundays, and with them, the banishment of the backdoor safety net.

CONDITIONS were quite horrible for the final race of the PC Scaffold May Mid Week league at Kinsale, southerly winds of 20 knots gusting, a big swell, poor visibility and rain-like needles to compound the misery.

A MAJOR garda security operation will be in place in Askeaton today and tomorrow for the funeral of Kathleen McCarthy-O’Reilly.

BENNY DUNNE'S captaincy of the Tipperary hurlers to face Limerick in Sunday's Guinness Munster SHC in Thurles represents a double challenge.

AFTER a morning of gale force winds and torrential rain, racing finally got under way at Kinsale and the third race of the Kevin O’Leary Nissan April League turned out a great one.

Limerick travel to face Wexford today in Division 1B of the National Hurling League, hoping for more league points after picking up their first win of the campaign last weekend.