“I am thrilled with the performance. This is massive."

Leo Boyers-Hipwell has been found safe and well.

The parents of a little boy who was killed in a hit-and-run accident have called for tighter driving licence controls after it emerged the motorist’s licence was renewed after he had suffered two significant brain injuries which left him with the mentality of a child.

Compared with the west coast, the south coast has a mere smattering of islands. From Hook Head in Co Wexford to Cape Clear in Co Cork, there are a few clusters of islands at Glandore, Cork Harbour, and Kilmore Quay, writes Dan MacCarthy. 

Donal O’Keeffe tells the story of the mobile library service which brings a sense of community and joy to people of all ages.

IT’S all go out around the Knockadoon peninsula by Youghal Bay and Ballymacoda these weeks: not only has the East Cork equivalent of Summer Bay had a long tradition of gaeltacht summer camps, but it also hosts faith-based week-long summer camp for teens through June and July, which means the small coastal community gets a youthful buzz and injection of life for the fine weather days.

A six-year-old boy was fatally injured when struck by a car more than three years ago — yesterday the motorist pleaded guilty to failing to remain at the scene to get medical assistance.

17 Gleann Buí is a modern, well kept 1,000 sq ft family home which offers really good value at this price.

With multiple times British champion jump jockey Tony McCoy judging the Racehorse to Riding Horse class at last week’s Dublin Horse Show, he chose Forpadydeplasterer, shown by Joanne Quirke, Ashbourne, Co Meath as this year’s winner.

Two men from Cork are taking two weeks out of their time to transport vital aid to help people whose lives were destroyed by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

A man claimed he fell out of a moving patrol car on his way to a Garda station after he had been arrested for drink driving, the High Court heard.

Four community organisations in east Cork have joined to form a new action group in response to public damage and flood risks.

Tommy Barker reports on a family home that is convenient to Cork and east Cork’s beaches and offers all the trappings of a peaceful country living.

An inquest into the death of a child in a freak fireplace accident has been adjourned for three months, pending instructions from the DPP.

A 6-year-old boy who was fatally injured in a hit-and-run last week was a sweet and charming little rogue, “who stole the hearts of everyone he met”, his funeral Mass has heard.

Two young men lost their lives in separate accidents over the Easter weekend.

A six-year-old boy injured in a hit-and-run in East Cork on Wednesday has lost his fight for life at Cork University Hospital.

Anam Cara dates in part to the 1700s, but has been extended and refurbished to an exacting standard.

A boy days from celebrating his seventh birthday was fighting for his life in hospital last night after being mowed down by a car which fled the scene.

A man has been arrested after a hit-and-run incident left a young County Cork boy in a critical condition in hospital.

A long-serving county councillor yesterday succeeded in having a drink-driving conviction overturned.

A serving county councillor who had headed a Joint Policing Committee was yesterday convicted of a drink driving charge.

A GROWING awareness of the value of our wetlands has become noticeable, often for practical reasons given that they act as water purifiers and play a vital role in flood control.

Farmland damaged during recent river flooding in East Cork is still under review by local authorities, but requests for reinforcements must compete with housing for scarce resources.

BALLYMACODA, CORK €130,000

The chairman of the country’s largest joint policing committee has resigned from his post after being detained by gardaí on suspicion of drink driving.

Cork colours did well at last Sunday’s Clonakilty Show — with a red and white Holstein winning a top championship.

Visitors were treated to a show of top class horses at last Saturday’s Belgooly Show which required lengthy deliberations before the judges could name their supreme horse champion.

David Murphy kicked on from his European gold medal win to secure his place in the Munster senior semi-final with a comfortable win over James Buckley at Lyre on Sunday.

Grandmotherly duties usually extend to babysitting or gift-giving, but Claire O’Driscoll from East Cork went further than most with her latest favour as she helped deliver her daughter’s second child in the back of a jeep on a roundabout outside a maternity hospital.

Four owners of a Cork pub, including a GAA star, have been ordered by an Employment Appeals Tribunal to pay redundancy to a former employee.

An East Cork funnyman looks set to become a household name in New Zealand after winning a prestigious comedy award.

OISÍN O’NEILL likes routine, hurling, helping out on the farm and eating low-fat crisps on a Friday.

A NON-residential farm at Ladysbridge, Co Cork, has a reasonable price of €8,500 per acre through agent Liam Foy, of Brennan and Foy, Castlemartyr.

A 41-year-old woman has died following a housefire in Co Cork.

REVIVED just three years ago, tomorrow’s Tyre Stop Kerry Rallysprint has already found a perfect niche in the motorsport calendar.

THE Farmers’ Market movement is coming of age – it’s now over 12 years since Myrtle Allen and I first set up our stalls in Cork’s Coal Quay side-by-side with fish smoker Frank Hederman, vegetable grower Caroline Robinson, Klaus and Hannah Balz with their beautiful bunches of fresh flowers and a couple of other brave souls.

THE Margaret O’Sullivan-trained Oscar Delta confirmed the positive impression he created when shedding his maiden tag at Ballindenisk in December by landing a very competitive renewal of the winners of one at the Carbery Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Kilpatrick yesterday.

HOUSE sales from new developments in the Co Cork coastal townland of Ballymacoda are going very well — so a prime piece of coastal land should do likewise.