There was a 11.7% overall increase in sexual offences, including a 17.4% increase in rape, and a 10.8% rise in non-aggravated sexual assault.

World champion race-walking star Rob Heffernan has announced his retirement from international athletics.

There will be a “significant increase” to previous homicide statistics when the CSO resumes publication of crime data next week.

A standoff between the Central Statistics Office and An Garda Síochána over the recording of domestic abuse incidents continues, writes Cormac O'Keeffe.

Ongoing across the pond: the controversy over US footballers taking a knee during the national anthem as a protest against police brutality and racial inequality.

Latest: The Education Minister Richard Bruton says the Government continues to have confidence in the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, despite recent Garda scandals.

An Garda Síochána’s credibility has suffered another blow after the CSO decided for a second time not to publish Garda crime statistics.

The Central Statistics Office has concluded that it cannot stand over Garda domestic violence figures after conducting a detailed analysis.

Listening to Allison Wagner last week speak about the torment she suffered for many years after finishing second to Michelle Smith, we couldn’t help but think how there was more than one swimmer in that Atlanta pool 20 years ago who sadly lost perspective on what sport is supposed to be all about.

Olympic hero Rob Heffernan has hit out at his sport’s governing body in Ireland for failing to support his dream of establishing a race walking academy in his native city.

The honours keep coming for race walker Olive Loughnane, who was recently awarded a gold medal for the 2009 20km World Championships after the lead athlete was disqualified for a drug offence.

It may have taken seven years, but Olive Loughnane can finally call herself a world champion, and what’s more, she now has the medal to prove it.

Humanitarian Adi Roche, whose charity has delivered some €100m in aid to people affected by the world’s worst nuclear accident, said she is humbled by Cork City Council’s decision to confer her with the Freedom of Cork.

It may have come four years late but Cork’s world champion race walker Rob Heffernan is now finally an Olympic medallist.

Almost seven years have passed, but Olive Loughnane can still see the way Olga Kaniskina looked at her in Berlin. 

World champion walker Rob Heffernan has said he is “dreaming” amid reports that he may be upgraded to Olympic bronze following the doping scandal that has engulfed world athletics.

Athletics governing body the IAAF have described the number of Russian doping cases as a major concern in light of Tuesday’s doping scandals.

Olive Loughnane looks set to be awarded the gold medal for the 20km race walk from the 2009 World Championships in Berlin after Russia’s Olga Kaniskina was yesterday banned by the Russian Anti-doping Agency for an anti-doping rule violation.

Olive Loughnane looks set to be upgraded to women's 20k walk world champion after the Russian Anti-doping Agency annulled the results of 2009 World Champion Olga Kaniskina.

From crunching the numbers to pounding the pavements — Central Statistics Office (CSO) staff hit the road yesterday to raise funds for homeless charity Cork Simon.

Robert Heffernan is in line to win a retrospective bronze medal in the 20km race walk from the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona after Russian Stanislav Emelyanov was found to have committed an anti-doping violation.

Three of Ireland’s leading female athletes have rubbished suggestions that body image remains an issue for women in sport.

Rob’s gold medal-winning performance in Moscow yesterday was the end result of a long process, one that started as far back as the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

As Rob Heffernan conquered the streets of Moscow yesterday, Gillian O’Sullivan was pacing around the sitting room of her Ballincollig home.

Robert Heffernan’s medal chances have been significantly enhanced with the withdrawal of Russian Olympic champion Sergey Kirdyapkin for this morning’s 50km race walk at the World Championships in Moscow and double 50km Olympian Colin Griffin believes the Corkman is on course for a treasured medal.

Laura Reynolds expressed extreme disappointment in finishing 31st in the women’s 20k walk at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.

Race-walking legend Olive Loughnane believes Robert Heffernan can use his fourth place finish at the London Olympics as a springboard to success at the upcoming World Track and Field Championships in Moscow.

WHEN Susan Crawford’s son Tomás was three years old, his autism, diagnosed a year earlier, began to show itself in more ways than one.

Before the Off the Ball team went off the air, Jerry Kiernan went off the wall on the show.

An eight-year-old schoolgirl is in class, looking out the window, miffed.

Stroke victims could save travelling hundreds of miles to hospital physio appointments thanks to a series of games designed by students at a Cork college.

Irish race-walking legend Olive Loughnane has announced her retirement from international

Former world championship silver medallist Olive Loughnane has retired from athletics.

Irish people are apparently looking to the internet to answer to that age-old question "What is love?".

The heroic athletic efforts we witnessed on our screens has inspired many to start exercising. Be it walking, running, or another activity, for winning results it’s best to begin slowly, says Áilín Quinlan.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has announced a major review of the city’s sporting facilities to see what can be done to help the next generation of Irish Olympic athletes.

A legend of Irish race walking took her final Olympic steps on a cool Saturday evening in London.

Olive Loughnane and Laura Reynolds have continued the good news for Irish athletes in the walking events today.

Olive Loughnane and Robert Heffernan can today lift spirits towards the end of what has been a poor games for Irish athletes.

In the leafy suburbs of Twickenham there are few indications that the Olympic Games are in London.

Robert Heffernan will captain the Irish athletics team at London 2012 it was confirmed yesterday.

Ciarán Ó Lionáird got his Olympic campaign back on track at Cork City Sports last night when he finished fifth of five athletes to go under four minutes in the featured Cork Airport Men’s Mile, which was won by Ryan Gregson (Australia) with a perfectly executed 3:57.98.