Gardaí are investigating a fatal road traffic collision that occurred in Co Cork involving a car and a motorcycle where a young man died.

Picture the scene: in sparkling sunshine out of doors, a young couple are joined together in matrimony. The celebrant inclines her head to fasten their hands together, the bright red plumage of her hat matching the bride’s shimmering lipstick.

Fellows at this time of the year can often be found complaining that they have the world of trouble to contend with.

Trish Dromey views a fine Georgian country home which could be turned to a number of uses.   

Limerick Golf Club may have their own battles ahead in the AIG Senior Cup today at Carton House but one of their sons left Kildare yesterday with an All Ireland winners’ medal following Ballybunion’s AIG Junior Cup victory.

Gardaí have recovered a gun and arrested three men in a crackdown on organised crime in Limerick.

The Nagle family tried to cut out plastic for a month. Alissa MacMillan finds out how they got on.

Five males, including three teenagers, yesterday appeared in court on multiple charges relating to a crime rampage during which, it was alleged, several high-powered cars had been stolen.

Cork 1-20 Monaghan 1-13: Is there any middle ground with this Cork football team?

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has led tributes to one of his party’s most popular county councillors, Dan Joe Fitzgerald, who has died after a short illness.

Eir has announced the locations of about 100,000 homes in up to 200 areas that will receive high-speed broadband in the year ahead.

Glenville 2-10 Ballydesmond 0-5: Glenville remain in the race for IFC honours after overcoming Ballydesmond with an eye-catching performance at Ballyclough yesterday.

A man in his 40s who groomed a teenager on Facebook and via text message for oral sex was jailed for four years yesterday.

A 42-year-old man who groomed a 14-year-old girl over Facebook and texted her to meet him for oral sex was jailed yesterday in what is one of the first cases of its kind before the courts.

With a handsome 10-point haul, Colm O’Neill crowned his first full game for Cork since his third cruciate operation last year.

Johnny King experienced mixed fortunes on Amateurs Day in Cork, completing a his first double on Winter Magic and Operating and being suspended for five days for using his whip with excessive frequency on his first winner.

The widowed father of rugby international Eoin Reddan may have to abandon plans to see his son play in Leinster’s Heineken Cup match in France tomorrow, after being the victim of a hatchet-wielding intruder.

Gardaí obtained a court order last night allowing them to carry out forensic examinations for a further 24 hours at an apartment block where a fire killed two men in their 30s.

After being kidnapped at gunpoint, the son of a Limerick postmaster was threatened with death unless his parents handed over a substantial sum of money, a court heard.

A graphic design graduate has described her “emot-ional agony” after she was punched, kicked, and choked by her then boyfriend who told her he was going to kill her.

The Cork football camp is “absolutely gutted” following confirmation that forward Colm O’Neill has ruptured the cruciate ligament in his knee for a third time in Saturday’s League victory over All-Ireland champions Donegal.

Colm O’Neill says the defeated Munster football team will take plenty back to their counties from Sunday’s Interprovincial semi-final defeat to Ulster.

Eugene O’Sullivan’s The Blarney Rose lit up yesterday’s extremely wet Boulta point-to-point fixture by destroying the opposition in the open lightweight.

Rockchapel manager Tom Doody may be no stranger to club football success, but yesterday will rank among his most memorable achievements.

An attractive package at Ballinakill, Ballinamult, Co Waterford, is on offer through Christy Buckley.

Ballyclough 0-10 Mitchelstown0-7

Times change — in a matter of two years since this Scart, Ballyclough farm first went on the market, land prices have broken through the €10,000 per acre barrier and sales are strong.

Cork may have been disappointed when stripped of home advantage for this tie but their trip to the midlands proved a perfect tonic for a side that shed points on its two previous away jaunts.

There were only 538 spectators in Páirc Uí Rinn to witness a McGrath Cup clash on a cold January afternoon yet the low-key setting could not detract from Colm O’Neill’s delight at returning to the inter-county game last Sunday.

TEN MONTHS after hobbling off in Pearse Stadium with a snapped cruciate ligament for the second time in his career, Colm O’Neill announced his return to the inter-county senior stage in style yesterday in Páirc Uí Rinn.

NEWS of the death of John Myers, aged 93, former chief executive of Ballyclough Co-op, now part of Dairygold Co-op, was received with sadness across the Irish dairy industry.

THE living space at this Longueville, Mallow home is first class in more ways than one — it was originally the ‘First’ classroom in a two-room school, built about 1890.

EARLIER this week I shared a platform with the chairman of Fonterra, which is effectively the entire New Zealand dairy industry.

GLANWORTH reached round four of the Cork IFC last night after a good night’s work at Kilavullen’s GAA grounds.

Five players struck down with the injury.