John Sexton is the share farmer in the 100-cow share-farming arrangement set up by Teagasc and Shinagh Estates in Bandon, Co Cork.

Every €1 that a business spends on improving its procurement practices delivers €10 back, according to Ingrid De Doncker, CEO of iDDea, a specialist procurement advice and training company based in Bandon, Co Cork.

The country vet, along with the priest, teacher, doctor and creamery manager, was always a pillar of rural life.

An 82-year-old man from a village in East Kerry had publically acknowledged his abuse of two women when they were young children, and he was in his forties and fifties, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee has heard.

Chat-show host and comedian Graham Norton remains Ireland’s best-paid broadcaster, earning a whopping €3.14m (£2.52m) in fees last year.

Convicted murderer Graham Dwyer wants legal aid for his action against the Garda commissioner and state over the use of mobile phone records in his trial.

A Bandon shopkeeper has apologised and agreed to pay undisclosed damages to a bank official after admitting he used language and behaved in such a way as to wrongly suggest she had stolen articles from his discount store.

The manager of a supermarket was punched in the face as he and staff escorted a drunken man from the premises. The culprit was yesterday sentenced to two years imprisonment with the second year suspended.

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A 70-year-old man, arrested yesterday in connection with a fatal hit-and-run in Kerry three years ago, was questioned by gardaí but released without charge.

A lover of model planes. ’Fantastic’ knowledge of computers. A predilection for knives. What did we learn of Graham Dwyer? Noel Baker reports.

Unions are refusing to re-ballot members on revised junior cycle proposals as they force students to stay at home from 720 second-level schools today and threaten a third strike.

A man has died in Bandon, Co Cork, after a wall collapsed on him.

A prominent former Garda superintendent who relocated to the Seychelles where he worked to combat crime in the island nation’s version of the Criminal Assets Bureau has died of a suspected heart attack.

A 23-year-old man has died following a collision in Bandon, Co Cork.

Architect Graham Dwyer, who is accused of the murder of Elaine O’Hara, has been sent forward for trial after he was served with an eight-volume book of evidence.

The State has been allowed two weeks to complete a book of evidence for the trial of architect Graham Dwyer, who is accused of the murder of childcare worker Elaine O’Hara.

IT says something about a growing interest in nature and environmental matters when close to 200 people of all ages turn out on a winter’s night for a talk about the humble hedgehog.

Kilkenny’s Mount Juliet swept the board at Ireland’s food Oscars, with the venue taking the three top prizes at the Good Food Ireland awards.

A father of two charged with the murder of Elaine O’Hara, whose remains were found in the Dublin mountains, was refused bail in the High Court yesterday.

An architect father-of-two charged with murdering childcare worker Elaine O’Hara has today been refused bail.

A woman in jail for murder has received another life sentence for killing John Forrester whose body was found trussed up with cable ties in the River Bandon, two years ago.

An Irish girl guide has helped fashion design icon Vivienne Westwood select a flag that will be planted on the seabed beneath the North Pole as part of a environmental campaign to save the Arctic.

A previously unknown letter written by a Cork lord mayor who died on hunger strike in a British jail has been sold to the Cork City and County Archives.

The auction of a unique collection of War of Independence letters is to go ahead tonight despite calls for the collection to be kept in public ownership.

Irish Paralympian Nadine Lattimore, one of 72 young people presented with a Gaisce gold medal award yesterday, believes it gave her the confidence to take on the world.

Graham Norton will be visiting his old school in Bandon, Co Cork today.

It’s the ultimate big boy’s boasting toy, weighing in at a powerful 16 tonnes.

A hard-hitting student video showing the dangers of cyber-bullying is to become part a national programme that aims to keep kids safe online.

BBC chat show host and comedian Graham Norton is laughing all the way to the bank after receiving €3m in fees and dividends from his production firm last year.

AT the Punchestown festival in May, Apt Approach was in front when falling at the final fence in a valuable handicap chase eventually won by Scotsirish.

THE newly-built smokehouse in Bandon, Co Cork, owned by fishmonger brothers Pat and Paul O’Connell could create up to eight jobs next year.

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CANNABIS users are exposing themselves to “higher risks of psychosis” by smoking super-strong homegrown herbal cannabis.

A CHRONIC gambler stole €15,000 from Goleen Developments Ltd, while working there, and carried out a robbery at a goldsmiths in Mallow, Co Cork, in desperation to get money. He was jailed yesterday for four years.

Click this story to watch Superintendent Eddie McKeown speaking at Bandon Garda Station this morning.

THERE has been a worrying increase in the number of key medicines, including cancer-treating drugs, in short supply or unavailable, pharmacists have warned.