A battle among a new generation of Real IRA members to control its drugs trade, racketeering, and money-laundering operations may have lead to the killing of dissident republican Aidan O’Driscoll, garda sources believe.

Outside, as a new economic recovery day dawns, the water meters are going in. Is this how we cherish the children of the nation in 2015, by measuring miserably their consumption of The Oil Of Life Itself?

The first of the Irish funerals for the victims of last week’s balcony collapse in Berkeley, California, take place in Dublin today.

Cork sculptor Séamus Murphy is the subject of a new film, writes Colette Sheridan.

FROM relatively humble origins six years ago, Culture Night has become a hugely popular nationwide event.

Efforts to return to normal home and business life continued across the weekend in parts of Cork hit by last week’s floods.

Residents and business- owners in flood-risk areas should be given protective barriers to prevent a repeat of the damage done to their homes from this week’s deluge — a Cork City councillor has claimed.

The heartbroken family of the rally photographer who lost his life in Sunday’s horrific accident has asked mourners to pray for the driver involved in the tragedy.

THE neglect of the State and an underfunded childcare system were major contributory factors in the death of murdered teenager Daniel McAnaspie, mourners at his funeral mass heard yesterday.

THE devastated family of Daniel McAnaspie is to receive his body today, more than three weeks after his battered remains were discovered dumped in a ditch.

PARISHIONERS are to be asked to help raise around €1 million to complete restoration work on three Catholic churches on the northside of Cork city.

THE despair driving young people to suicide has been ignored amid the push to turn Belfast into a centre of prosperity, a priest claimed yesterday.

The despair driving young people to suicide has been ignored amid the push to turn Belfast into a centre of prosperity, a priest claimed today.

ONE of the country’s most promising basketball stars died suddenly yesterday after suffering an epileptic fit.