The Government has been accused of “spin” with its plan to tackle the housing crisis after it emerged it had only agreed to fund the refurbishment of 71 of 113 vacant council houses Cork County Council had asked it to.

A Limerick man who spent six days on the run after escaping from custody has been jailed for four months after a suspended prison sentence imposed for throwing a wheelchair in a busy emergency department was activated.

It’s been described as “an absolute disgrace” that nearly 7,000 people are on the waiting list for houses in Co Cork, yet 600 Nama-owned homes and 163 apartments are lying idle.

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DISSIDENT republicans are suspected of being behind a booby-trap bomb which almost killed an ex-Garda informant who infiltrated the Real IRA.

An investigation is underway today after an explosion at a house in Co Meath.

WITHIN minutes of Douglas village, these two houses on Maryborough Hill have the bucolic charms dreamed of by trader-uppers.

Relatives of a motorcycle champion who was battered to death hit out today after his killer was told he must serve at least 10 years in jail.

THE Lee fields are the Elysian fields to Cork city dwellers — acres of bucolic heaven on the edge of the city.

A Co Offaly man used a homemade shotgun to shoot dead a 20-year-old man at a cider party in Birr, a prosecution lawyer alleged at a murder trial today.