Gardaí have charged 16 people with various counts of deception and making false reports in relation to orchestrated traffic accidents.

16 people have appeared before Cork District Court charged in connection with making false insurance claims as a result of staged traffic accidents.

The Real IRA has claimed responsibility for the “punishment shooting” of a 33-year-old old man in Cork City after claiming he was involved in “unrepublican conduct”.

A chemical engineer from Carrigane, Mitchelstown, Co Cork, and a barrister from Gurteen, Ballymore, Co Sligo, are the candidates at today’s election to select the next Macra na Feirme president.

A 40-KM-LONG superhighway linking Tipperary with Laois —o n the main Cork-Dublin road — is set to open on December 8, more than six months ahead of schedule.

OVER most of the country outside Dublin there is, in effect, no road transport available for people who do not have a car.

THE smoking ban has had a relatively successful introduction considering it affects almost everyone whether they smoke or not.