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Large groups of teenagers were among the crowd at a “Stand up for Life” rally in Cork at the weekend, with more than 1,000 people gathering at the Grand Parade to voice their opposition to repealing the Eighth Amendment.

Highly-educated people are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, a study shows.

If a well-known beer did ringside seats, they would probably be like this — right in front of the cattle ring with a freshly-poured pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

The young revolutionary who killed the only policeman to die violently between 1916 and the War of Independence later became an early member of An Garda Síochána, a police researcher has found.

A man in his early 60s has been stabbed in the face during an aggravated burglary in Blarney, Co Cork.

Mick Flannery, 32, is from Blarney, Co Cork. His upcoming gigs include Róisín Dubh, Galway, Dec 28; Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, Dec 29; and Cork Opera House, Dec 31.

A man who has locked-in syndrome following an operation at Cork University Hospital was yesterday awarded a €10m lump sum payment in final settlement of his High Court action.

In his column entitled ‘Prochoice must be proactive ahead of campaign’, Shaun Connolly like the majority of the Irish media, is pushing for a secularised value-free Irish society.

Cork and Kerry football fans will enjoy the banter in Killarney at this evening’s Munster final replay and many will meet at McSweeney’s Corner on their way to Fitzgerald Stadium.

A former Cork city teacher who quit the profession to pursue a writing career has been awarded the 2015 Bryan McMahon Short Story Award from Listowel Writers Week.

ALOT of the time, I think it’s forgotten that young people are actually people. It’s forgotten that we are the next generation, which is kind of sad because it means we’re not all that often listened to.

<B>Trish Dromey </b>finds affordable options with agents Coldwell Banker.

GAVIN O’CONNOR is from Blarney, Co Cork, and plays the role of Fianna Fail politician, Seán Doherty, in the series Charlie, which begins on RTÉ One on Sunday.

16-year-old Ellie Menton describes the bittersweet loss of her beloved grandmother earlier this month

WE’VE made the world awfully small. Masses upon masses of information is available to each and every one of us (though mostly, we overlook this fact and watch videos of cats doing the most glorious things imaginable).

Amid fears of an escalation of a Traveller feud in Kerry, the county’s most senior garda officer has warned that violent behaviour will not be tolerated.

More than 100 people were present at Corrin Mart, Fermoy, yesterday to witness the €1.975m sale of a residential farm near Blarney, Co Cork.

Motorists who complain that they cannot recall the last time they encountered a Garda checkpoint are not necessarily cranks. Neither are they alone.

The organs of a garda who took his own life have been transplanted to five people, an inquest has heard.

A community leader yesterday warned that two homeless men currently living in public toilets in Ennis will die unless they can access state services.

Tommy Barker reports on Brooklyn House a modern home near Blarney, Co Cork.

The producers of a TV show have offered a lifeline to people swamped by debt.

Fifty cannabis plants valued at around €45,000 in total have been seized at a house in Blarney, Co Cork today.

A probationer Garda has today been spared a criminal conviction and a possible jail sentence for attacking two female colleagues who intervened when a drunken “mess” fight got out of hand.

If this was the Olympics, Lisa Madden would have been tipped for a bronze medal.

The magazine of the Garda Representative Association has strongly criticised a Fine Gael senator for comments he make in the Seanad in which he referred to the tragic death of a garda and claimed a Sinn Féin member had allegedly said “they would have done a much cleaner job”.

A man jailed for chasing his neighbour through fields with an axe complained to gardaí on his release that the victim had pointed a gun at him.

A probationer Garda will be sentenced in September after admitted attacking two female colleagues who intervened when a drunken “mess” fight got out of hand.

A garda who died following a tragic shooting incident was remembered at his requiem Mass as a kind, thoughtful and outgoing young man who loved his job and treated all people with respect.

The popular garda involved in a tragic shooting at the weekend has died at Kerry General Hospital.

THE political future of a Fianna Fáil tax defaulter is hanging in the balance after a call was made for him to resign his seat on Cork County Council.

THE mother of a young man who died in a car crash has warned teenagers they are not invincible.

PRIESTS in the Cloyne Diocese are to meet again to discuss the fall-out from child clerical sex abuse once the official report is published, it has emerged.

IT IS Saturday evening in downtown Calgary.

COMPLAIN as we might about our dear green country, it really takes an exterior view to paint a real picture of ourselves and where we live.

JAIL is harder for a garda than an ordinary prisoner, a judge accepted yesterday after allowing a member of the force to walk free after serving just one day of his sentence.

WE don’t have oil wells or gold mines in Ireland but we have amazing young brain power, President Mary McAleese declared when she opened the 47th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS in Dublin yesterday.

BT Young Scientist of the Year 2010 Richard O’Shea was awarded the Adene Special Prize for his work in the field of energy at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Portugal last night.

A teenager accused of murdering a man in Blarney, Co Cork, last September pleaded guilty to manslaughter today.

RICHARD O’SHEA doesn’t want a penny for the simple but innovative project that earned him the crown of the country’s top young scientist – but his work could improve the health and lives of millions.

A teenager who was charged in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in Blarney, Co Cork, on Saturday night was refused bail at Cork District Court today.