Gurranabraher-based Jack Lyons, 71, is a former postman, busman and cohort of The Who. He is co-curating an exhibition on the Sir Henry’s venue for Cork City Library through August which will be on display from Saturday as part of Cork Heritage Week.

There is never any shortage of narratives when the Premier League season begins. 

A Dublin man has today been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a man in Shankill in 2013.

A man has told a trial jury he received a text from his friend, who is accused of murdering a man, saying: “I think I murdered someone last night.”

A garda has told a murder trial jury that a knife was missing from a knife block in the home of a Dublin man accused of murdering a 26-year-old man and stabbing a professional boxer.

An “accomplished boxer” has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, with the last two years suspended, for the manslaughter of a mother of two with whom he had been in a “turbulent relationship”.

An “accomplished boxer” will be sentenced next month for the manslaughter of a mother of two with whom he had been in a “turbulent relationship”.

Crystal Palace have announced the signing of former Fulham captain Brede Hangeland on a one-year contract.

A man being tried for the murder of an elderly man in a psychiatric unit in Co Cavan has changed his plea to guilty of manslaughter.

A 70-year-old Wexford man has been jailed for 12 years for raping and sexually abusing his two daughters over two decades ago.

Damien Delaney has every reason to give Paddy McCarthy the cold shoulder, but he is actually embracing his clubmate like a brother.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 60-year-old man in a “vicious, one-sided, sustained attack” is expected to retire today to consider its verdict.

A convicted killer and registered sex offender whose sexual assault of his former partner was likened to "a rape with a machete" has been jailed for 13 years.

A man allegedly abducted a mother and her four-year-old son before putting the woman though “a terrifying ordeal of sexual depravity” a jury has heard.

For all that the play-off final is often boiled down to cash, an Irishman illustrated the other, more human side of the day.

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The woman who was raped in a remote part of Cork in the back of a van feels the crime will always haunt her and that she will be marked by it forever.

The family of a man who was murdered and later found on the banks of the River Shannon, have described how they were plunged “into a nightmare situation”.

CARDIFF boss Malky Mackay hailed his side’s “nerves of steel” after they reached the Carling Cup final last night after a thrilling penalty shootout win over Championship rivals Crystal Palace last night.

Cardiff 1 Crystal Palace 0 (aggregate 1-1 AET; Cardiff win 3-1 on penalties)

Crystal Palace 1 Leeds 1

Crystal Palace 1 Cardiff 0

A Limerick man has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering another man by throwing him into the River Shannon two years ago.

Closing stages have been reached in the trial of a Limerick man accused of murder at the Central Criminal Court.

KAGISHO DIKGACOI’S late header secured a first home win for Palace since October and left Birmingham’s European adventurers empty-handed.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of killing another man two years ago has heard a knife was found in the River Shannon by a garda sub-aqua team member.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of killing another man two years ago has heard the deceased had a history of depression.

Ipswich 0 Crystal Palace 1

Leeds 3 Crystal Palace 2

A Wexford man who was convicted by a jury of raping his son’s 18-year-old girlfriend has been jailed for seven years.

AN Englishman celebrating his birthday in a Thurles hotel downed between eight and 10 spirits in a half-pint glass faster than a work colleague drank a half-pint of lager, a court has heard.

A Tipperary court has heard that a hotel guest downed up to 10 shots of spirits in one glass for a party trick before he died from acute alcohol poisoning.

Two barmen have denied the manslaughter of a British man who died from acute alcohol intoxication almost three years ago.

A MAN accused of raping his son’s teenage girlfriend has said everything he did with her in his car had been consensual.

A sister of a woman accusing her boyfriend’s father of rape has revealed she “got a fright” when she saw the complainant in her room after the alleged incident.

A Wexford man accused of orally raping and sexually assaulting his former partner told gardaí that he had been beaten up by the woman on at least one occasion and claimed that she was “good with the hands” when angered.

The High Court has approved an award of €1.28m to a Co Waterford teenager who lost his leg in a farming accident.

A mother of four who killed her husband by bludgeoning him over the head with a hammer 23 times is to be sentenced for his manslaughter today.

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her husband with a hammer has been instructed that the only verdicts open to them are guilty of murder, or guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

The jury in the trial of a man alleged to be the getaway driver for the gunman in a fatal shooting at a Dublin bookies, was sent home last night, after failing to reach a verdict following almost five hours of deliberations.

The jury in the trial of a man alleged to be the getaway driver in a fatal shooting at a Dublin bookies, has been instructed to either find the accused guilty of murder, or fully acquit him.

The judge in the trial of a man alleged to be the getaway driver in a fatal shooting, has instructed the jury to find the accused guilty of murder if they are satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that he assisted the gunman.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a man accused in connection with a murder in a Dublin bookmaker's shop over a year ago was allegedly the getaway driver for the gunman who carried out the killing.