A young man who was so intent on getting back to his flat — even though the building was sealed off as a crime scene following a fire — caught a garda protecting the area by the throat.

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A decision to grant planning permission for a scaled-down €41m retail project on a site designated as an area of “high landscape value” straddling the Cork city and county boundary has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála.

MARY Hanafin assured voters present at the opening of Cork Film Festival recently that she understood the necessity of subsidising the arts.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man has died and two others hospitalised after a stolen vehicle collided with a taxi in a suspected joyride tragedy.

Gardaí investigating a fatal collision in Cork city believe that one of the vehicles involved had been stolen just a short time earlier.

DESPITE a continued fall in the price of crude oil, motorists are being warned to expect a continued “slow increase” in the price of fuel because of fluctuating currency values, as well as the recent introduction of a carbon tax.

GARDAÍ have set up extra patrols in west Cork and Kerry in an attempt to catch callous thieves who are preying on the elderly.

A 43-year-old male pedestrian has been killed in a road crash in Cork.

MAURICE MOLONEY, Cork County Manager, certainly does as he says - his commitment to bringing development to the regions means he’s upping stumps and moving to Mallow himself. He is selling his house in Cahergal Lawn, off the Ballyhooly Road in Cork, through Sheila O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald for offers in the region of 254,000 euro.