The black comedy, which also starred Aiden Gillen, is the second play in McDonagh’s Aran Islands Trilogy.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have picked Cork’s Chris Walley in the Bafta Breakthrough Brit awards, marking him out as one of the most promising actors this year.

A man who raped a foreign student in the hall of her Carlow home after following her from a bus they had shared has been jailed for 10 years.

The makers of The Young Offenders have confirmed they’re keen on shooting another series and that we could soon see Conor and Jock back causing mayhem on the streets of Cork.

Plans to install a network of public defibrillators across Cork City are being reviewed after the city’s first 24/7 life-saving device was vandalised twice in the space of a few hours.

A 60-year-old man who shot dead a mother of six and injured her daughter as they sat drinking tea in their kitchen has been found not guilty of murder and attempted murder by reason of insanity.

A man has today pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering a mother and attempting to murder her daughter in Dublin over two years ago.

Revenge porn is not illegal in Ireland despite widespread criminalisation elsewhere, writes Joyce Fegan.

A judge drastically reduced yesterday the number of charges against a Waterford father and mother accused of sexually abusing their son.

A young boy who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother left his second foster home because his foster mother felt he needed more specialist care for his sexualised behaviour.

A boy who was allegedly sexually abused with a hot poker by his father only disclosed the allegations when he was in foster care where his father couldn't find him, a trial has heard.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to “have sex” with his mother told a social worker that the allegations “weren’t real”, a trial has heard.

A child who was allegedly raped by his father and forced to “have sex” with his mother told a social worker that the allegations “weren't real”, a trial has heard.

A Waterford man and woman sexually abused and exploited their son when he was aged between five and nine, it has been alleged at the Central Criminal Court.

Checking your symptoms online rather than visiting the family doctor is leading to growing levels of “cyberchondria” — where patients believe themselves to be far sicker than they actually are.

Dick Hodgins, former athlete and Cork City Sports administrator

Doctors say the next Government is facing an unprecedented crisis in the health service.

The next government will inherit “a crisis of enormous proportions” in the health services, doctors have warned.

Doctors have warned that any attempt to impose a “one size fits all approach” to the crisis in hospital emergency departments will not work.

Doctors have described the swapping around of medical card numbers by the Health Service Executive in its national service plan as “farcical”.

Crime against women is like a virus that keeps mutating, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan told a conference on digital abuse of women.

Most of the details of how money will actually be spent under next year’s health budget will not be available until publication of the HSE Service Plan 2016, the health minister said yesterday.

A man has gone on trial charged with the murder of his uncle 18 months ago.

A doctors’ group has called for an immediate ban on alcohol sports sponsorship.

The President of the IMO, Dr Ray Walley, said the Government still refuses to address the fundamental principle of equal pay for equal work.

The trial has begun of two men accused of raping a homeless woman in a hotel in Dublin city centre in March 2012.

Some medical card patients, unable to afford prescription charges, are not taking vital medication and suffering strokes as a result, research will show.

The HSE faces the headache of processing over a quarter of a million applications for free GP care for children under six by July.

Doctors agreed a deal allowing free GP care for under-6s after the Government increased its payment by €30m to €67m — an 81% increase, it emerged yesterday.

The Department of Health has denied claims that the Government is planning to force patients to purchase private health insurance for GP services.

Government plans to introduce free GP care for everyone in Ireland could be delayed by a decade because of doctors’ compensation and resource demands.

Older people had lost their medical cards in the past year without a proper financial assessment, a patients’ advocate claimed.

Junior Health Minister Alex White today faced "robust" questions from doctors at the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) annual conference over plans for free GP care for children under the age of six.

The Irish Medical Organisation has claimed legislation to facilitate free GP care for the under-sixes is “draconian” and “an attempt to unilaterally re-write the relationship between GPs and the HSE”.

An important dispute over whether internet hosting sites have immunity from defamation litigation is to be thrashed out before the Supreme Court.

The Irish Medical Organisation has hit out at the Minister for Health James Reilly over the free GP scheme, calling him the 'Minister for non-engagement'

A Government target for providing free GP visits for kids under six this summer is "not achievable", according to the GP committee of the Irish Medical Organisation.

Doctors have claimed the HSE failed to tell them about potentially fatal flaws in how two blood-thinning drugs to fight stroke are being used on 4,000 people — despite officials knowing about the problems since last week.