A key figure in the growing anti-water meter movement in Cork has distanced himself from another blockade group after ugly scenes during a fracas.

A truck has crashed into a house in Co Cork.

Iarnród Éireann has apologised to a same-sex couple after a member of its staff refused to let them board a train at Heuston Station.

IRISH RAIL have apologised to a gay married couple who missed their train to Cork last weekend because staff in Dublin refused to accept their valid free travel pass.