Firefighters went above and beyond the call of duty yesterday to save a trapped pony who was within minutes of drowning.

Five men have been charged in connection with a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road earlier this year which became a YouTube hit.

Gardaí are expected to question a number of people about dangerous driving, endangerment and cruelty to animals after a group of 60 Travellers took over a main road to stage a sulky race.

DIRECTIONS are still awaited from the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case against a man accused of impersonating a garda and stealing €28,000 from a pensioner in Cork city in June.

A MAN accused of impersonating a garda and stealing €28,000 from a pensioner in Cork city is out on bail on condition that he refrains from calling to the homes of the elderly in the city looking for work.

Two squad cars have been damaged in an incident outside Blarney garda station in Cork this morning.

MINISTER for Justice Dermot Ahern has been called on to ensure gardaí in a Co Cork village are given adequate resources to combat a gang which has burnt the local station twice and thrown a petrol bomb at a garda in a van.

Gardaí are investigating an arson attack on a garda station in Co Cork.

GARDAÍ are searching for arsonists who caused more than €250,000 of damage to a Garda station in Cork.

A Cork family were forced to flee their home in the early hours of this morning after it was firebombed.