A young man was stuck in the boot of a car driven at high speed through the northside of Cork City before it crashed, it emerged at Cork District Court.

A "desperado" who stole a minibus for a highly dangerous escapade has been jailed for 18 months.

A three-year-old boy was among five lives lost on the roads over the bank holiday weekend.

A Garda motorcyclist tossed into the air by a speeding stolen van was yesterday hailed a hero for safeguarding other road users from being killed or seriously injured.

Two burglars in a stolen van careered through the streets of Cork without any regard for the safety of other motorists as they tried to escape pursuing gardaí.

A heartbroken family is hoping the public will grant their Christmas wish and help them find their beloved pet.

Price: € 375,000

An award of €185,000 was made yesterday to the family of a man who died moments after being ejected from a pub in Cork City.

Following the success of the An Post Rás last week, the action becomes more localised this weekend when one of Ireland’s most storied cycling clubs, Blarney CC, host their annual June Bank Holiday festival of racing.

AFTER their sensational performance in the An Post Rás, where they won the Best County team prize for the Carlow Dan Morrissey outfit, Timmy Barry and The Edge cycling team will be back on home territory this coming weekend when they compete in the Blarney Festival of Cycling.

A CORONER has ordered three brothers, who were cleared of charges linked to the death of a man following his ejection from a pub, to attend an inquest.

BIG TIME road racing returns to Blarney this weekend when the Blarney Cycling Club Festival of Cycling gets under way tomorrow night with the Osborne Butchers Criterium, followed by the Donal Crowley Memorial and Kay Stratton Memorial races on Sunday.

AN inquest into the death of a man following his ejection from a pub was adjourned yesterday following legal submissions which included claims of threats to the lives of key witnesses.

A young man on trial for murdering a man in his bedroom in Cork city last year told gardaí during an interview a few days later that he stabbed him a number of times and was sorry, according to evidence presented today.

EVEN the statues must have known that something special was happening yesterday afternoon.