A Corkman who had previously received a three-year suspended jail term, for mugging an 81-year-old woman, risked having to serve the sentence after burgling the home of a garda.

There are fears that dogs are being stolen and used in organised fights as bait following an increase in thefts in recent weeks.

An animal rights group has offered a further €5,000 reward for any information on the brutal stabbing and killing of a pet dog in Cork City.

The owner of a dog who died an agonising death after its throat was slashed has vowed not to rest until her pet’s killers are brought to justice.

The daughter of an elderly woman whose life was destroyed after a mugging has criticised a judge for handing down a suspended sentence to the mugger, who has more than 80 previous convictions.

THE wild game season is well and truly underway again.

A man's body was found in the garden of a house in a Cork suburb this morning.

EVEN driving down this country’s rural roads, much of Ireland is hidden, more of it is simply overlooked, abandoned, or ignored. And, some of it is making its way back – as can be seen in a day in the wandering company of someone like the multi-faceted George Gossip.

One of the most prominent figures in the drugs trade in Cork city was caught red-handed with €500,000 worth of cannabis and today he was given a 15-year jail sentence.