Two Cork men beat up a young woman in her home — with one man tying her hands with a cord while his accomplice cut her long hair with a knife as she was lying on the floor.

Kerry and Munster senior football champions, Dr Crokes, face a player exodus before they open their title defence.

KERRY’s senior football championships, which kick off tonight, has been hit by a massive player drain, with up to 100 footballers set to miss this year’s championship.

KILDARE tillage farmer Laurence Flood won the overall Grain Grower prize at yesterday’s Glanbia Quality Awards in Kilkenny.

THIS clash of the titans may have failed to deliver on the pre-match hype, but few in Killarney will be complaining after Dr Crokes defeated West Kerry in Saturday’s Kerry SFC quarter-final at Austin Stack Park (1-8 to 0-5).

GARDAÍ claimed they had an eye witness to identify a man accused of carrying out an armed robbery of a post office, but the defendant had subsequently shaved his head since finding out that he had been identified.

A 59-year-old man was remanded in custody today on a charge of being in possession of downloaded images of child pornography at an apartment in Cork last night.

IT looks like Ireland is waking up after a few too many late nights out during the Celtic Tiger years. Rising interest rates, stagnant property sales and recent job losses are uneasy reminders of an Ireland we had all but forgotten.

THE death and destruction witnessed in London on Thursday last is a stark reminder that international terrorism is a threat to us all.