Gsoc has been denied access to confidential records in the Garda’s Security & Intelligence Section in relation to Adrian Crevan Mackin, who shot Garda Tony Golden dead and almost killed his estranged partner Siobhan Phillips in October 2015.

A five star hotel in Kerry has been named the best in Ireland.

Cork actress Molly Lynch tells Ellie O’Byrne ‘Sunset Boulevard’ is about pitfalls of stardom

Ask Audrey’s been sorting out the people of Cork for ages. Here’s the latest advice she’s dished up.

Writers are gathering in Cork this week to launch a monthly event bringing local authors and budding writers together, writes Marjorie Brennan.

This West Cork boy is a huge source of pride for his parents and teachers today.

The banks and courts are showing scant mercy when it comes to families struggling to stay in their homes. Norma Costelloe talks to families who think this year could be the year that the bailiffs finally come knocking.

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TO PARAPHRASE the Hal David and Burt Bacharach song: If you see me walking down the street and I start to wince, walk on by.

All roads led to Boulta for the annual Clonmult/Dungourney point-to-point fixture yesterday and the Denis Leahy-trained newcomer Hawkhurst produced a stunning debut victory in the first division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

THOUGH she was hardly the first person to pick up on the lack of well developed roles for women in film, Alison Bechdel was instrumental in generating much needed debate and discussion around the issue.

Claims of ‘trading on the family name’ have been refuted by a TD whose sister has been selected to run for the Local Elections in West Cork.

Martin Finn, 22, has autism, but speaks to the world by singing note-perfectly in clubs and pubs, says Robert Mulhern

There was some competitive fare on offer at yesterday’s well-attended West Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point fixture at Lismore and handler John Queally, who was on the mark with former pointer Gaillimh A Chroi in the listed mares’ bumper at Sandown on Saturday, appears to have a cracking prospect on his hands in Uncle Danny who readily put his rivals to the sword in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

IF I appear to be breathless it’s because I’m walking as I’m talking,” says showbusiness legend Red Hurley.

The Tim Townend-owned/trained Dr Patmassini lit up yesterday’s 10th annual Clonmult/Dungourney point-to-point meeting at Avaune by readily putting his rivals to the sword in the winners of two.

Standing outside the Egyptian embassy, Norma Heeney looked like she couldn’t take anymore: “Enough is enough,” she said.

With school holidays on the horizon, Arlene Harris takes a timely look at some of the many summer camps on offer

Dublin MEP Gay Mitchell will not contest the European Parliament elections next year.

A cancer patient who was accidently rendered paraplegic by an operation to help manage her pain would “on the balance of probability” have lived longer if the surgery had not taken place.

A school principal has led tributes to one of his young pupils who died in a tragic accident at his family’s farm in West Cork.

Briege Corkery was in New Zealand when she heard the news.

All these romantic undertones can do terrible things to a man.

Based on the book by Dr Seuss, ‘The Lorax’ is an environmentally conscious story of one boy’s noble quest to restore balance between avaricious mankind and Mother Nature.

IT’S 10am and I’m standing in a supermarket lobby area.

AS A kid, I certainly dreamed about playing rugby and wished for it.

Two pensioners fended off a knifeman with a bottle of cleaning fluid in the UK.

AUTHOR Seán Curtin is more acquainted than most with the people, streets and changing face of Limerick for a period spanning more than 100 years.

IT has similarities with the TV talent show, Stars in their Eyes.

THE peace in Northern Ireland will survive any threat that it is thrown at it, two of its principal architects said yesterday.

FORMER British prime minister John Major has said he is “enormously touched” to be chosen to receive the freedom of Cork.

TWO of the best-known people in Cork theatre were finalising the script last night for their fairytale wedding next week.

A CAMPAIGN by a Cork family to secure a secondary school place for their autistic boy had a happy ending as he headed off to school for the first time since last June.

A CORK family who have been unable to secure a secondary school place for their 12-year-old autistic boy yesterday slammed a Department of Education offer of nine hours’ home tuition a week as “a joke”.

FOUR years ago at the World Cup in Australia, Frankie Sheahan was a member of a group known as the Terrigal Five.