Raised 10lb. for a repeat win in a handicap hurdle in Limerick over Christmas, the Eddie Harty-trained Fahamore followed-up when foiling the Willie Mullins-trained favourite Abbey Lane in the Buy Tickets On-Line Rated Hurdle in Fairyhouse yesterday.

Two people are dead and seven others seriously ill amid fears that a batch of very high purity heroin is in circulation in Cork.

A young Waterford man who died in Co Cork after possibly taking a deadly drug was laid to rest yesterday.

A warning has been issued to recreational drug-users following the deaths of two young men in Cork.

Gardaí investigating the deaths of two men in Kinsale, in Co Cork on Sunday have made a further arrest.

A woman in her 20s, who was being questioned by gardaí in connection with the deaths of two men in County Cork, has been released from custody.

Gardaí are preparing files for the Director of Public Prosecutions after releasing without charge three people arrested on suspicion of drug dealing following the deaths of two young men from a suspected overdose at the weekend.

Two men arrested in connection with the deaths of two friends in Kinsale, Co Cork at the weekend have been released without charge today.

A post mortem and toxicology tests will be carried out today on the bodies of two friends who died from suspected drug overdoses.

Even though they had just moved into the area, the young couple renting the dormer cottage on Abbey Lane in Kinsale, Co Cork, bought a baby present for their neighbours when their son was born four weeks ago.

The two men who were found dead in a house in Kinsale, Co Cork today have been named locally as Michael Coleman, from Dungarvan, who had moved to the area with his girlfriend, and Liam Coffey from Cappoquin.

The bodies of two men found in a house in Kinsale this morning have now been removed from the scene and have been taken to Cork University Hospital.

The bodies of two men have been discovered in a house in Co Cork this morning.

A TYPICAL Kinsale, Co Cork house, number 1 Abbey Lane has a higgledy-piggledy look and a suitably antique interior with its half timbered walls and low ceilings.