A 28-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a teenager at a popular hiking spot in Dublin.

A woman, who set fire to an apartment during a binge-drinking session, killing two of her friends, was pulled by gardaí from the burning building drunk and still clutching a bottle of cider.

A 15-year jail term, with the last five years suspended, was imposed on a young woman for setting fire to an apartment building in Mallow causing the deaths of two of her friends, writes Liam Heylin.

A 26-year-old man accused of stabbing a young camper in the throat at Dublin’s Hell Fire Club has been further remanded in custody.

A Cork pensioner who raped and sexually abused his step-daughter from when she was aged 11, resulting in her giving birth to two of his children, has been jailed for 12 years.

A 28-year-old woman confessed yesterday to the manslaughter of two men who died in a house fire in Mallow in north Cork almost two years ago, and she also pleaded guilty to arson.

A Tralee man who grew cannabis in Mayo could find no place to stay on a journey to Mallow so he called to the local Garda station looking to stay there — with a bag of homegrown cannabis in his hand.

A woman has been charged with two counts of manslaughter, and one of arson, following a fire in which two men died, in the Cork town of Mallow.

Recruitment firms on the move and in an upward trajectory themselves can be seen as a bellweather of change in the wider economy. Thus, the denizens of Cork’s South Mall will be glad to see the arrival of not one, but two such firms to the South Mall: FRS Recruitment, and IT recruitment specialists Stelfox.

The twin brother of an Irishman killed in America earlier this month has paid tribute to the people of Limerick who turned out in their hundreds last night to show their solidarity.

Enda Kenny and Joan Burton are due to appear before the Banking Inquiry today; Greece’s radical government approved new creditor-demanded reforms; a Cork-based engineer has made it into the last 100 candidates for the Mars One mission; and the European dream is over for Dundalk. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

Ervia CEO: Irish Water ’came up short’ on explaining charges; President Michael D Higgins makes an official visit to Britain today;Christian Benteke’s move to Liverpool could go through today, and Sinead O’Connor has cancelled her summer tour due to illness. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

An investment fund is seeking summary judgment for €47m against property developers Michael and Kevin Corbett, as well as an additional €10m from Michael Corbett, arising out of an alleged failure to repay bank loans.

A Co Cork man who imprisoned and assaulted his ex-partner over a period of up to two hours, making her believe she was going to die, was yesterday sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, with the last two years suspended.

Man, 68, abused his daughter and step-daughter for many years

A suicide note with the words “bury us together” was found at the home of a Cork woman who admitted smothering her 8-year-old son.

A former Cork city bar operated by the Rebel Bar Group has changed hands, and is due to re-open by Easter. Mulligans, on Parnell Place, has been acquired by a small consortium headed up by Liam Barry, who has owned the Bodhrán on Oliver Plunkett Street for more than 10 years, and who’s been in the bar business in Cork and Mallow for almost 20 years.

A court last night ordered that a mother charged with the murder of her son should be examined by a forensic psychiatrist at the female wing of Mountjoy prison.

A MIDDLE-AGED man in the catering business had a sideline in growing cannabis at home in order to make cannabis cookies, butter, alternative pizzas and wine for friends.

A middle-aged man in the catering business had a sideline in growing cannabis at home in order to make cannabis cookies, butter, alternative pizzas and wine for friends.

A Limerick man is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a robbery in the city four years ago.

THE driver of an articulated truck had no chance of avoiding a car in which two men died following a head-on impact near a notorious junction on the Limerick-Nenagh N7 roadway, an inquest heard.

A post mortem examination is taking place this afternoon on the body of a 51-year-old man who died as a result of an assault in Waterford City at the weekend.

A 51-year-old man who suffered serious head injuries in an assault in Waterford over the weekend has lost his fight for life at Cork University Hospital.

AN angry father claimed yesterday that there is no justice system for the ordinary man after he and his family had to take a civil action in the High Court against the owners of a nightclub where his son died after a row with staff.