WHILE six gangland killings in Cork remain unsolved, gardaí are continuing to pursue the perpetrators and, in one case have lodged a file with the DPP, are “consolidating” another, and hoping for a breakthrough in a third.

Seven people control drugs distribution in Cork, writes Sean O’Riordan

A TEAM of up to 60 gardaí are involved in the investigation into the brutal killing of a 51-year-old man who died after violence flared between feuding families in Cork city.

UP to €100,000 in protection money may have been demanded from an unemployed father-of-two in the days before he was gunned down outside his rented home in Co Cork on Wednesday.

THE murder of Gerard “Topper” Staunton is only the fifth gangland killing to occur in Cork, but the fifth nationally this month.