Gardaí in Cork said today that they are treating the investigation into the deaths of two men in Kinsale last weekend as seriously as they would a murder inquiry.

Gardaí have released without charge a woman they were questioning in connection with the murder of a man in Bandon last year.

FRENCH forensic experts are hoping advances in forensic science over the last 15 years will help them track down the killer of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

A MAJOR air and sea search was expected to be resumed today at the Old Head of Kinsale for a Hungarian man feared missing.

MURDER accused Oliver Hayes denied that he knew Bandon woman Anne Corcoran in reply to a Garda questionnaire circulated in the west Cork town following her disappearance in early 2009.

GARDAÍ have drafted in specialist forensic experts to examine a car belonging to a 60-year-old widow who disappeared in suspicious circumstances.

THE yacht at the centre of last week’s record drugs haul off south-west Cork will be used as an exhibit when the case comes to court.

THE Garda Water Unit searched a west Cork river yesterday after a man was reported missing.

GARDAÍ are searching for two raiders who stole more than €9,000 worth of electrical goods from a store in Co Cork.

Gardaí investigating the death of David Brett in Cork last year have arrested a 23-year-old man.

GARDAÍ don’t suspect that a robbery at a shop owned by a blind Nigerian and his wife was racially motivated.

FOUR men who robbed a service station at knifepoint were arrested early yesterday morning when they crashed their getaway car after a 15-mile chase.