While the focus of a €82m cocaine seizure off the Cork coast has firmly shifted to Britain, gardaí are still trying to ascertain if the drugs shipment may have been unloaded here before being retransported across the water.

Up to 80 dinghys have capsized on Strangford Lough in Co Down.

THE graphic scenes of Love/Hate on our TV screens every Sunday have gripped the nation. It’s close to the bone of what is happening in Ireland’s gangland. Cork Supt Barry McPolin and Crime Prevention Officer Sgt Tony Davis are the men charged with keeping an eye on Cork’s underworld.

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Gardaí arrested a 25-year-old man yesterday in connection with the investigation into the death of a 57-year-old Cork City Council employee.

The man who broke a code which helped jail the British gangster who organised €500m drug shipment says this county “will be in grave danger of further large importation attempts” if there are any cuts to the Naval Service.

Residents living near University College Cork are bracing themselves as a major Garda operation began last night in a bid to contain Freshers’ Week chaos.

A man has been stabbed to death during a fight in Cork city in the early hours of this morning.

Gardaí at Anglesea Street in Cork are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a missing 16-year-old girl.

The ESB has teamed up with English company Geo to operate a fibre optic cable linking Ireland and the UK under the sea.

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Police are appealing for witnesses to the murder of a 90-year-old widow stabbed to death before her heart was cut out.

Leading from start to finish. Paul Harris and his co-driver, Eugene O’Donnell (Subaru Impreza), the reigning national champions, won the six-stage Clonmel

Saturday's Six Nations clash between Ireland and Wales in Cardiff has been postponed.

Junior Agriculture Minister Noel Davern has confirmed that sheep imported from the UK since the beginning of the month will be slaughtered.

The Government today announced a ban on all horse and greyhound racing in the Republic, tightening efforts to keep foot-and-mouth disease out of the country.