Gardaí have launched an investigation after a young man was fatally stabbed in Cork city tonight.

A former female Defence Forces soldier arrested in Syria on suspicion of joining Islamic State (IS) also served in the Air Corps, where she helped work on the government jet.

Journalist Gemma O’Doherty has failed to secure the required number of county councils to contest the presidential race.

A man in his 20s died in a stabbing in north Cork.

Plans are being drawn up to ensure future weather storms will not trap people in a famed seaport town.

The old terminal at Cork Airport is to be demolished, with management announcing plans for a 40-acre business park, from which some revenue will be used for marketing initiatives to attract more tourists.

The organisation that represents the vast bulk of Defence Forces personnel is “preparing to go to war” in the new round of pay talks, writes Sean O'Riordan and Stephen Rogers.

Work on repairing roads and local authority houses will grind to a halt if SIPTU workers in Cork County Council vote for strike action, writes Sean O'Riordan of the Irish Examiner.

Update: 6.05pm ALONE, the charity that supports older people to age at home, is urging older people who may be feeling lonely or isolated not to be afraid to ask for the help.

Cork East TD Sandra McLellan has broken her silence about an internal Sinn Féin row amid speculation that she threatened to leave the party if it did not take her side in the dispute.

Former justice minister Alan Shatter has maintained he wasn’t shafted by Enda Kenny, but admitted he hasn’t spoken to the Taoiseach since last June.

A violent Dublin gang suspected of a series of robberies have used the train to make their getaway.

Residents living close to last night's dramatic Garda operation in Glounthaune, Cork, have today spoken of how they locked their doors for fear a gunman was on the loose.

Gardaí are continuing to question the 43-year-old mother of an eight-year-old boy, her only child, after his death at a house in North Cork.

The depth of Justin McCarthy's already understrength panel will be severely tested when Limerick take on Offaly in Saturday's All-Ireland SHC phase 2 qualifier in Tullamore (throw-in 7pm).

Cork 2-17 Limerick 1-3

Charleville CBS 3-10 De La Salle, Waterford 2-9

Gardaí yesterday named fugitive paedophile James Lombard. Seán O'Riordan looks back at his trial.

AN POST spent at least €2m on external consultants last year while insisting it could not give staff overdue pay increases, an Oireachtas Committee heard yesterday.

AN POST spent at least €2 million on external consultants last year while insisting it could not give staff overdue pay increases, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.

ONLY one-in-three civil servants whose jobs are to be relocated have volunteered to move out of the capital under the Government's decentralisation plan.

THE Government moved yesterday to defuse the escalating row over decentralisation by insisting that it was listening to union concerns about moving 10,000 civil servants outside the capital.

THOUSANDS of top civil servants are threatening strike action and vowing to oppose Government plans to complete decentralisation within three years.

A six-year-old Ukrainian girl, who four years ago was given little chance of surviving a severe form of leukaemia, has returned to Ireland where she received special treatment that led to her amazing recovery.