A Canadian company wants to build a windfarm at the country’s largest landfill site, which was ‘mothballed’ some years ago, having cost €48m to develop.

The Manager of a South Dublin-based Community Centre that closed suddenly in September has settled a claim for alleged bullying and harrassment she brought against her former employer.

A man brandishing a firearm was dramatically arrested by armed gardaí at a shopping centre after an almost eight-hour crime spree across west Dublin involving six carjackings.

The first new bridge over the river Lee in more than a decade has been installed.

There have been calls for a halt on the development of student accommodation in residential areas of Cork City until a coherent planning policy on such projects is adopted.

A man who acted as a peacemaker in a halting site dispute has been spared jail for having a slash hook during an earlier fight.

Academics and students have united to criticise University College Cork for naming a new research building after Nobel laureate James Watson, who has been roundly condemned for his racist and sexist views.

A man being hailed as Cork's nicest bus driver has been identified, and he's completely bemused by the huge reaction to his small act of kindness towards an elderly lady.

Doireann O’Sullivan is first through the dressing room door in Mourneabbey, sister Méabh but two paces behind.

Teenagers considering a career in medicine get hands on experience of being a medical student at UCC’s Prep-for-Med day,writes Ellie O’Byrne.

The recent decision of Cork City Council to allow a previously-permitted development change from retail to mostly office use has been referred to An Bord Pleanála.

Primary teachers have called for longer-term thinking on staffing for small schools after it emerged the Department of Education is supporting the opening of a Dublin primary school with just one pupil.

It isn’t every day that you see battle-hardened health professionals overcome with emotion, yet there were tears aplenty yesterday at University College Cork when Philomena Lee told the story of her 50-year search for her son.

Ivor Callely will be out of 23-hour lock up as early as today and will be given a job tending the grounds at Wheatfield Prison, it has emerged.

Tony Lyons was counting his lucky stars last night.

The Government is set to re-invest €600m from the Bord Gáis Energy sale into projects which are capable of creating jobs and generating a commercial return.

THE new academic year brings with it a sense of dread for many of the residents living close to universities. Parties with loud music, drunkenness on the streets, interfering with parked cars, public urination and other forms of unacceptable behaviour are par for the course.

THE new academic year brings with it a sense of dread for many of the residents living close to universities. Parties with loud music, drunkenness on the streets, interfering with parked cars, public urination and other forms of unacceptable behaviour are par for the course.

Students planning a night out were offered almost €25,000 in taxi vouchers yesterday as part of a “get home safe” campaign.

A man serving 20 years for killing a 16-year-old girl had boiling water poured over his face and chest in a gruesome prison attack.

Three Garda CCTV cameras have been installed around Cork’s university quarter as part of a wider crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

A man was charged in connection with the death of a schoolboy in Tallaght in 2001.

A Dublin man in his 50s has been remanded in custody, to appear before court again next week, charged with the death of a 12-year-old in Tallaght, 11 years ago.

Gardaí are confident of making progress in the investigation into the gangland murder of Gerard Eglington in Co Laois last Monday.

No 6 The Grove is tucked away off College Road, Cork, and is priced at €450,000, writes Tommy Barker

Visitors were treated to a show of top class horses at last Saturday’s Belgooly Show which required lengthy deliberations before the judges could name their supreme horse champion.

Locals in the Dublin suburb where innocent Melanie McCarthy was gunned down are bracing themselves for further violence following the funeral yesterday of the 16-year-old girl.

Gardaí will know as early as today if they have a DNA match linking a key suspect to last week’s murder of Melanie McCarthy.

Fourteen-year-old boys openly dealing drugs, carrying knives, and even guns.

A Traveller gang “runs” the Dublin estate where 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy was gunned down, local community workers have claimed.

Wall Street protesters are poised for an ugly confrontation with police and New York authorities trying to end the month-long occupation of a park that has spawned similar gatherings across America and is going global.

Gardaí in Dublin are making a fresh appeal for information about the death of a 12-year-old boy in a fire in Tallaght ten years ago tomorrow.

GARDAÍ say it was up to Spanish police to come and collect wife-killer Dermot McArdle from Ireland.

A SIDE garden site, with full planning for a detached house, has swiftly gone ‘sale agreed’ on Cork city’s Orchard Road, as a do-er upper a few doors away gets a price cut and change of selling agent.

A PLUM garden site on which to build, in one of Cork city’s best western suburbs, Orchard Road is for sale. It comes new to market, just as rival and adjoining sites across Cork city on a former crab apple orchard also get a renewed sales push (see below).

IT’S still on the ‘select’ list, despite being among some of the busiest thoroughfares on the western side of Cork city.

A RARE offering indeed — a College Road, Cork city site with full planning permission in place for a three-storey house of nearly 2,000 sq ft — is for sale.

BOOKS come out the door to meet you at No2 Carrigfern — literally. Even the side entrance porch here is shelved for book storage, and every room is similarly laden, with volumes tightly racked in serried ranks, shoulder to shoulder, spine to spine.

TULLAMORE, a splendid midlands course originally designed by James Braid and subsequently upgraded by Patrick Merrigan, is the venue for the finals of the Bulmers Irish Cups and Shields from September 16-19.

HOLY drive-by eggings, Batman — scramble the crack squad.

WIMBLEDON doubles champion in 2005, Wesley Moodie has confirmed his participation in the Shelbourne Men’s Irish Open tennis championships next month.