Scrap metal thieves stole chevron signs erected to prevent further fatalities at a spot where a young father- of-two was killed in a traffic accident.

A Polish woman in her 20s died following an horrific crash, yards from a motorway toll plaza in Co Cork.

A woman was killed this morning when the car she was travelling was in collision with an articulated truck near the toll plaza in north Cork.

GARDAÍ are searching for an armed raider who held a female shop assistant at knife-point before robbing cash from the premises and locking her in a room inside.

A YOUNG mother and a teenager travelling in separate vehicles lost their lives in a head-on car crash on a Cork dual carriageway yesterday.

A WOMAN enjoying a walk in the countryside had to scream for help after she was blown into a deep roadside drain following a hit-and-run incident.

A Cork woman was seriously injured after being catapulted into a drain by a vehicle in a hit-and-run incident.

A TOTAL of 22 Garda inspectors, including three women, have been promoted to the rank of superintendent and assigned to new stations.

FIRE BRIGADE officers say it was a miracle nobody was killed or seriously injured when a three-storey building collapsed onto a busy street in Cork city centre.

GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to two savageattacks this week in Cork city, including a violent mugging incident which involved a gang of up to five men.

AN EARLY morning row may have led to the fatal stabbing of 27-year-old man some hours later, it emerged yesterday.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of a 27-year-old unemployed man believe he may have been stabbed to death following a row with two others.

Murder-squad detectives were tonight probing the stabbing to death of a 27-year-old man in a quiet residential area.

A motorist who is accused of dragging a senior member of An Garda Siochana along the side of his moving car creating a risk of death or serious injury over four years ago, was arrested in London today and extradited to Cork.

A MIDDLE-AGED man yesterday denied a charge of assault causing serious harm to former Republic of Ireland soccer international Miah Dennehy last summer.

A middle-aged man was charged today with assault causing serious harm to former Republic of Ireland soccer international, Miah Dennehy, last summer.

ECSTASY tablets and cannabis were slipped to a prisoner as he was being escorted from a courtroom to a holding cell at Cork District Court, but gardaí observed the transaction and yesterday the woman who passed the drugs admitted the crime.

GARDAÍ have seized 110 cars in Cork city, many of which were a “deplorable condition”, as part of a new scheme to improve road safety.

GARDAÍ are investigating two internet videos showing a driver racing at 160km an hour under the River Lee and along a dual carriageway in Cork.

DRINK driving arrests in Cork city are set to break last year’s record within the next few days, according to gardaí who have seen a staggering 41% increase in detections since the introduction of mandatory breath testing.

IN 1963, a film was made at War of Independence ambush sites in the Ballingeary/Ballyvourney area of Co Cork. A description of the relevant happenings at each site was given by a participant, in all cases a local man.

SHOCKING driving statistics are prompting gardaí in Cork city to launch a campaign aimed at making young people safer drivers.

TRAFFIC chiefs in Cork were under fire yesterday after the city ground to a standstill as the €100 million Christmas shopping spree stepped up a gear.

‘LET the market decide’ — that’s the pitch taken by auctioneer, Jeremy Murphy with regard to a smart, infill development at Parkgate in Frankfield, Cork.

Gardai arrested and charged a man today with a murder in Cork city last June.