The District Court judge dealing with the case against a councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Queen Victoria told him to go to the High Court if he wanted to raise the issue of having a judge fluent in Irish for the case.

The councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria had his evidence translated from Irish in Cork District Court yesterday, but he said the Irish-language issue in the proceedings should be referred to the High Court, writes Liam Heylin.

The investigation into the blacking out of street signs named after Britain’s Queen Victoria resulted in a councillor and two other men being charged at Cork District Court yesterday.

A witness has told a Wicklow murder trial that he thought he saw brain when he checked on a man he had seen being beaten on the side of a road.

A man has gone on trial for the alleged murder of his friend at Farrankelly Road in Delgany, Co Wicklow seven years ago.

A senior Ireland international has yet to hit the net at Old Trafford this season, but 17-year-old Thomas O’Connor managed it as Southampton caused an FA Youth Cup shock.

Kerry 4-17, Meath 3-11: Kerry claimed their fifth consecutive All-Ireland M’B’HC title when overcoming a determined Meath side in Semple Stadium on Saturday.

A sample of what made the pages of the Cork Examiner this week 100 years ago.

It’s a photograph that may have been seen by millions over the last 100 years – but how many people other than Pádraig Pearse did they all recognise?

An 18-year-old man who claims he suffered brain damage at birth and in his treatment afterwards at Sligo General Hospital has settled his High Court action for €1.75m.

An 18 year old who claims he suffered brain damage at birth and in his treatment afterwards at Sligo General Hospital has brought a High Court action for damages.

THE work of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland between 1824 and 1842 was both immense and controversial. 

Good Counsel, New Ross 2-12 Dublin South 0-1: Leinster Post Primary Hurling: Good Counsel, New Ross laid the foundation for victory over Dublin South in the opening half of this Leinster Post Primary SHC A quarter-final at Pairc Ui Bhriain, Carlow, courtesy of two goals from Bob Whitty.

Struggling teachers are being helped out with a €20,000 gift left by a late Irish-American priest whose family got the same kind of help of their later father’s union more than 80 years ago.

Transport chaos is looming with the Dublin Bus strike, so I was amazed by the comments of the Minister of Transport Leo Varadkar.

The Seanad faces extinction at the hands of the largest majority government in this State’s history, and it is probably the most vital referendum that ordinary people will ever vote in.

So our political masters have decided to ignore a recommendation from the Constitutional Convention to change the current system and allow presidential candidates to be nominated by ordinary citizens.

I watched with frustration as the Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, acted contrite on television to distance himself from his party’s role in the destruction of our economy.

As one of the 445,863 people who voted against the proposal to alter our constitution, I need to defend my decision as a result of various theories espoused by a number of ministers.

In two weeks’ time, the citizens of Ireland have a chance to show they are a people of action.

Kilmurry-Ibrickane 0-10 St Joseph’s Doora Barefield 0-04

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to try a 23-year-old Greystones man charged with murdering a fellow Greystones man last year.

A 24-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his friend in a row in Co Wicklow last year.

A MAN will be given a mandatory life sentence after being convicted of murdering his friend in a row in Wicklow last year.

A man will be given a mandatory life sentence after being convicted of murdering his friend in a row in Co. Wicklow last year.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his friend has reached its closing stages at the Central Criminal Court.

A man accused of murdering his friend using a rock told gardaí “I only hit him about two or three times”.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his friend has heard the deceased was “abusive” with everyone he came into contact with on the day he was killed.

THEY get knocked down, but they always get up again.

THIS game could have been a blowout.

A HOMELESS man was charged yesterday in connection with the death of a young man in Co Wicklow over the weekend.

SOCIETY has to move away from stigmatising troublesome kids as “bad” and distinguish between them and their behaviour, according to a garda inspector.

A climate-station on the west coast of Ireland that has grown into an internationally important study centre today celebrates its 50th birthday.