A video of the incident went viral after it was posted to Facebook.

A £2.5m retail and fuel forecourt is to be built near Belfast International Airport.

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A new era for Toyota and Lexus has begun in Cork with the move by Lehane Motors to a state-of-the-art facility at the Airport Road.

Tommy Barker on the charms of a centuries-old protected thatched cottage by the sea at Crosshaven that is priced to sell quickly.

Gardaí investigating a fatal hit-and-run incident in Dublin overnight are appealing for witnesses to come forward.

There’s a fascinating shape to the rear extension and high-ceilinged add-on to the back of 12 Amberley Green: it’s like its builder or designer folded up the floor plans in an origami style, inserting crisp folds in the roof line along the way.

What happens when your daughter enters a competition in your name without telling you?

This copy of the ninth printing of the first edition of Joyce’s Ulysses published by Shakespeare & Co, Paris, 1927, is among the lots at Cork Auction Rooms tomorrow at noon.

Striking staff at Musgrave’s chill warehouse in Cork rejected company calls to return to work last night and vowed to continue their dispute indefinitely.

Musgrave employees in Cork have voted for industrial action after rejecting a Labour Court recommendation on restructuring measures within the company.

A man has been arrested following the death of a woman found seriously injured on a roadside.

CORK-based drinks distribution firm Barry & Fitzwilliam saw pre-tax profit rise 6% to €3.4 million last year but it said 2009 is proving much tougher.

Concern is growing for the safety of a 33-year-old Cork man who has been missing for almost two days.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after he was hit by two cars while walking on the Airport road in Cork.

THE €8 million upgrade of Waterford’s Airport Road is now open to traffic, making access to the regional airport easier for the growing number of passengers availing of its routes to Britain and continental Europe.

Gardaí in Cork are today looking for a gang of masked raiders who broke into a warehouse and stole valuable equipment early this morning.

THE COMPANY behind a proposed €200 million retail centre in Waterford has launched a campaign to attempt to win public support for the project.

APARTMENT living doesn’t have to be all insides and cooped-up interior living, clung to a chicken-wing balcony or a rail across a French door for a breath of fresh air.

A BACHELOR farmer’s bequest has netted a whopping €27.5 million for a nursing home.

A security guard has died after being shot in the head at a military base in East Belfast today.

THE recent traffic lights installation at the Bull McCabe pub road junction on the Airport Road in Cork includes two excellent examples of mindless engineering which fit very nicely into the well-known Irish phrase, 'yerra, 'twill do.'

A WATERFORD development site sold yesterday for €45 million, €20m above its guide price.

WATERFORD City Council stands to gain up to €26 million in a land sale.

MOUNT Boyle House, at Ballycurreen, Farmer’s Cross, Cork , is back on the market with selling agents Lynch and Co.

A MAMMOTH garda operation, twice the size of the one mounted in Dublin for U2’s Croke Park gigs, kicks into action in Waterford next week as the Tall Ships Race arrives into the city.

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A man is his 40s died after a fire at his house in the Ballycoreen area of Cork city last night.

The 50th anniversary of the world’s first sub-four minute mile will be celebrated by Cork’s oldest athletic club, Rising Sun, who promote a Straight Mile on the Lisfihill Road, Ballinhassig, on Thursday May 6 at 8pm.