A Ukrainian who obtained an Irish passport by using a forged Estonian passport yesterday pleaded guilty to this offence and got a three-month suspended jail term.

Teenagers’ passion for computer and online games should be harnessed by schools to develop their use of logical argument, a maths professor says.

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It was a special day for a special little boy yesterday as supermarket chain Tesco created 104 new jobs by opening its latest Irish store.

Cork financier Ted Cunningham confessed for the first time yesterday to laundering money from the Northern Bank robbery of 2004. He will be sentenced on February 27.

An Irish bakeryhopes to double its workforce and take a major slice of the global bakery market after making a major food technology breakthrough which is poised to revolutionise the sector.

MUSIC and dance have long been believed to possess transformative powers, from Turkish spinning dervishes dancing to elevate their souls, to African tribal healers stomping in frenzied trances to cure illness.

Two doctors found guilty of professional misconduct have been struck off the medical register.

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Founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on this date in 2006. I sent my first on the same date in 2009. I found my voice and a career as a media commentator, so Happy Birthday, says Barbara Scully

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While touring her new record, Julie Feeney has let singers in each area pick which songs they want to work on, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

THOUSANDS ofmusicians are expected to descend on a Cork town next month for one of the largest traditional Irish music festivals of its kind.

DNA obtained from a money bag seized by gardaí is “a thousand million times” more likely to have come from a Cork man accused of IRA membership than an unknown source, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

AN elderly couple who devoted their lives to caring for their brain-injured son and who lost six other children to cystic fibrosis are Ireland’s Carers of the Year.

IT has been a turbulent few weeks for Jerry Henchy. In an unexpected announcement he was told at the end of January that his services as chief executive of Dairygold were no longer required.

THE Corkman accused of money-laundering claimed from the witness box yesterday a group of Bulgarian business people were keen to invest money with him, because they could not trust their country’s banks.

A PROPERTY developer who loaned Ted Cunningham €200,000 on the security of a bag of sterling totalling £175,000 testified yesterday that the accused man told him he was doing business in Bulgaria with Phil Flynn and the Bailey brothers.

TWO of Cork’s leading PR and marketing firms have merged to form a group with a turnover of €5 million.

A DUBLINER who is accused of threatening to kill his wife and members of An Garda Síochána with a hatchet was brought before Cork District Court yesterday.

Irish-made pizzas are now being sold in the world-famous Harrods store in Knightsbridge in London.

Ian Horgan has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter and rape of beautician Rachel Kiely.

Two former army barracks have been sold for in excess of €65million, in a deal agreed by the Minister for Defence, Michael Smith.

A 16-year-old youth arrested in connection with the murder of a 22 year-old woman in a park in County Cork in 2000 told gardai he could not help their investigation and had nothing to do with the murder.

There was an estimated chance of around one in 650,000 million that a DNA profile matching a Cork man accused of rape and murder matched someone else, a forensic scientist said today.