Torrential rain is having a serious impact on travel this afternoon, particularly in areas of Leinster.

A TASER gun had to be used by a garda on a man who arrived at the end of a siege situation and ran at gardaí with a slash-hook.

All sides in the row over Hanger 6 at Dublin airport will make presentations to the Oireachtas Transport Committee later today.

The Taoiseach was challenged tonight to personally intervene to secure 300 promised Ryanair jobs at Dublin Airport.

Under-fire Tánaiste Mary Coughlan tonight agreed to meet Ryanair boss Micheal O’Leary to try to secure 300 jobs promised by the budget carrier.

Under-fire Tánaiste Mary Coughlan was tonight considering meeting Ryanair boss Micheal O’Leary to secure 300 jobs promised by the airline.

THE attached garage at 6, Bishopscourt Green, Bishopstown, would allow room for a larger, kitchen/diner in any makeover.

WITHIN 10 years the physical landscape of Cork city will be changed utterly. The regeneration of the City Quarter area, allied to the exciting proposals for the docklands (the proposed Atlantic Quarter), will alter the face of Cork forever and elevate the city and its environs to a bright, brand new plateau.

WE call on the Taoiseach to stand by the Government’s statement on the Irish language (December 2006) wherein it is pledged, inter alia:

A THIRD man was in court yesterday facing charges in relation to a volatile confrontation in a housing estate in the early hours of Tuesday morning when slash-hooks, a hatchet and petrol bombs were seized.

AND, they’re off, with yet another house joining the sale race at the Paddocks in Cork.

THE introduction of contracted speed cameras will do little to resolve the carnage on our roads.

PROPERTIES in Bishopstown are always in demand and good, trading-up properties like this one in the Dunville Estate on the Waterfall Road, are scarce.

A series of explosions tore through a UK oil depot early today sending flames and smoke shooting hundreds of feet into the sky.

FROM the foundation of the state, the issue of whether An Daingean was the capital of the West Kerry Gaeltacht or an Anglophone bastion on its edge remained unresolved.

THERE'LL be a new colonising rush at 6, Regency Close - a suburban house with a strong colonial flavour.

WITH over €650,000 achieved for the detached house next door, expect strong bidding and interest for 6, Sidney Park in Cork city.

GOOD location, good house — which means selling No 6, Hettyfield Downs, won’t be too arduous for estate agent Paul Reid of Sherry FitzGerald.