News of the murder of their neighbour has rocked the community of Ballincollig, as Niall Murray and Eoin English report.

Gardaí have yet to establish the motive behind a brutal attack in which a man in his 30s was hacked to death in his Co Cork home in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The 42-year-old’s trial was in its sixth day at the Central Criminal Court.

A murder trial has heard that a man, whose body was found in the River Bandon, died due to ligature strangulation.

The body of a man taken from the River Bandon in suspicious circumstances had black flex and lace around his neck, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

Just a mile or two of scenic road, or stretch of river, separate two property sale arrivals this month near Bantry, West Cork.

A man jailed for life for the murder of Jonathan Duke in Bandon, Co Cork, five years ago has moved to appeal his conviction.

Cork City Council is awaiting further information from developers of the proposed reworking for residential use of a former bakery site in Togher.

There’s huge character, as well as internal and external appeal, to the apartments at Bridge House in the very heart of Cork city. 

A notorious on-the-run Scottish prisoner stabbed himself before he was recaptured in Belfast last night.

A young woman who died of a suspected drug overdose is the latest victim of a family fraught with problems, which include her aunt being jailed for a double murder and her mother dying in a drink-fuelled car crash.

Barn-storming opportunities at North Cork thatched homestead, complete with tennis court and barn workshop, says Tommy Barker.

Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.

A knotted piece of black cloth — described as a ligature — contained the DNA of both the accused and the dead man, a forensic expert told a murder trial.

The Romanian man accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon in 2011 said there was no time for him to stop the Cork woman who has admitted killing him.

A pathologist who observed a complex of multiple injuries on the body of a dead man found tied up in the River Bandon said it was very unlikely a person acting alone could have tied up and disposed of the body.

A murder trial witness said yesterday that the Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon told him on the night in question that he had killed the victim by cutting his throat.

The Romanian accused of murdering an Englishman in Bandon in 2011 claimed the woman drinking with them at the time slashed the victim’s throat with a broken glass after the victim had professed his love for her.

A man accused of murder was “looking for trouble” on the night in question, a witness said on the second day of the trial in Cork yesterday.

The body of a man was found in the Bandon River tied with cable and the belt from a cardigan and rolled up in a carpet, a jury was told yesterday as a 39-year-old man went on trial for murder.

We hope she’ll never see the light of day again and be allowed to torture another family like she’s tortured ours.

A 37-year-old Cork mother-of-three has been sentenced to life in prison for murder for a second time this year.

A woman in jail for murder has received another life sentence for killing John Forrester whose body was found trussed up with cable ties in the River Bandon, two years ago.

The family’s victim impact statement read by the deceased’s sister, Cindy Duke:

Two killers broke down in tears at opposite sides of a courtroom dock yesterday after hearing of the impact on the murdered victim’s heartbroken family.

The sister of a man who was murdered in Cork two years ago said that the family will never be able to forget - or forgive.

A 37-year-old woman has been found guilty of the murder of father of one Jonathan Duke in Bandon nearly two years ago.

A soundtrack of the circumstances surrounding the murder of 27-year-old Jonathan Duke was available to the jury complete with noise from an upstairs apartment, the dragging of a body down the stairs, comments by the accused woman, and her laughing like a hyena afterwards.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon was laughing hysterically in the Garda station holding cell within hours of her arrest, the last prosecution witness in her trial testified yesterday.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon had blood of the victim under a fingernail on her right hand, a forensic scientist told a judge and jury yesterday.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon, Co Cork, had been drinking three to four bottles of vodka a day around that time, she told investigating gardaí.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon was found by gardaí with blood on her hands and feet and she told officers she had taken magic mushrooms, the jury was told yesterday.

A murder trial jury yesterday heard a recording of a 999 call from a man who claimed to have seen a body being thrown over the balcony outside his building.

A 37-year-old woman yesterday denied murdering a 27-year-old man whose strangled body with more than 60 wounds was found dead in the Bandon River in Nov 2011.

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A man and woman facing double murder charges after two bodies were recovered from a West Cork river have been returned for trial.

An Irishwoman and a Romanian man facing murder charges have been charged with a second murder in West Cork in November.

A man and a woman were this afternoon charged with the murder of a man in Bandon, west Cork in November.

A MAN and a woman charged with the murder of a man in West Cork in November have been further remanded to appear in court again next month because of the complexity of the investigation.

Gardaí in Cork are today continuing to investigate two separate murders in Bandon.

Gardaí investigating the death of a man in Bandon, Co Cork have appealed for information on the family and background of the deceased.

The investigation into the death of a second man in Bandon, Co Cork, has been upgraded to a murder inquiry, gardaí said.

Gardaí in Cork will hold a case conference this morning following the discovery of a second man's body in a river in Bandon yesterday.