Mourners attending a funeral where a priest accidentally drove into the gathering crowd feared they were being targetted in a deliberate attack.

Mourners attending a funeral where a priest accidentally drove into the gathering crowd feared they were being targetted in a deliberate attack.

A father of four who died following an assault in Mitchelstown, Co Cork was remembered as a "one in a million family man" who loved a good chat and had a hearty laugh, his requiem mass in his native Ballindangan heard today.

A teenager appeared at Cork District Court yesterday accused of spraying insulting comments about a garda in graffiti on four different schools in the Blarney area, leaving them with a total bill of €1,200 to remove the paint.

A criminal who was trying to get into the “headstone business” has been jailed for 18 months after causing criminal damage to cemetery headstones in what the judge described as “an unbelievable mean, despicable crime”.

Tony Keady’s iconic white helmet was brought to the altar by former teammate Gerry McInerney in one of the most poignant moments at his funeral Mass as Galway hurling said goodbye to one of its finest players.

Former Hurler of the Year Tony Keady has died in hospital in Galway after suffering a serious illness earlier this week.

Locals in a Cork village who recently attended a charity coffee morning for a woman who was going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could never have anticipated she would become ill and lose her life on the trip, her funeral Mass heard.

Fears about a proposed new student development near Cork's Lough area has seen residents take to the streets in protest.

Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has defended her participation in an event to commemorate the deaths of eight IRA men killed in Loughgall, Co Armagh, in 1987.

A large number of people attended Mass at the Lough in Cork at dawn on Easter Sunday.

Joe Walsh, the former agriculture minister who was acclaimed as being equally at home in the parish hall or in the gilded buildings of Brussels, was laid to rest yesterday.

Joe Walsh, the former Agriculture Minister who was acclaimed as being equally at home in the parish hall or in the gilded buildings of Brussells, was laid to rest today.

Mystery surrounds the removal of a heavy church pew from a church at Ballymacelliggott — a sprawling rural parish between Tralee and Castleisland.

Descendants of workouse and County Home residents buried in unmarked graves in a west Cork cemetery took part in a solemn procession to mark the return of a sacred symbol yesterday.

As a mark of respect to an employee who was killed in a work accident, members of Cork County Council adjourned their meeting in County Hall yesterday after offering their sympathies to the deceased’s family.

There were global family ties at a weekend gathering where an extended clan celebrated the anniversary of their shared ancestors’ wedding almost 150 years earlier.

They’ve had to wait nearly 150 years, but residents of one West Cork village finally have a traditional organ in their church.

Stunned colleagues of the garda who took his life this week paid emotional tributes to a man they described as exceptional as his family prepare to bury him today.

The grieving father of the youngest victim of the Tit Bonhomme sinking told mourners at his son’s requiem Mass he hoped the sea would give up the bodies of the two remaining missing crewmen.

A 100-YEAR-OLD horse-drawn farm cart carried the last Knight of Glin to his final resting place in Co Limerick yesterday.

IRELAND has lost one of its “titans and greatest champions” of the arts and heritage following the death of the last-ever Knight of Glin.

Detectives investigating the murder of a Catholic policeman in the North arrested a second man today.

Detectives investigating the murder of Police Constable Ronan Kerr are questioning a man in the North today.

THE head of the Catholic Church in Ireland was applauded by mourners at the funeral of murdered PSNI officer Ronan Kerr when he called for an immediate end to the futility and evil of violence.

THE crimson red of the Gaelic football shirts; the bottle green of the police uniform.

The head of the Catholic church in Ireland called for an end to the futility and evil of violence in a powerful statement at Pc Ronan Kerr’s funeral today.

Police officers and senior nationalist sporting officials shouldered the coffin of murdered Catholic constable Ronan Kerr at his funeral today in an unprecedented show of unity.

AS the funeral of Ronan Kerr takes place today, fears mount that a new dissident group may have been behind the murder as no one has claimed responsibility.

FOR the fifth year in a row, there has been a decline in the number of people killed on the country’s roads.

The funerals take place today of two of the victims of Monday's crash in Co Monaghan.

A large crowd of people has attended a prayer meeting in the town of Newcastle West in Limerick in memory of the four people murdered there last Tuesday.

A grief-stricken community will gather in Limerick today to remember a loving mother who was murdered with her two young children and a friend.

ARCHBISHOP Dermot Clifford has written to the National Council for Special Education asking them to review a decision to drastically cut the hours of a special needs assistant (SNA) caring for a seven-year-old schoolgirl who has Down syndrome.

Dominic West has married his long-term partner Catherine Fitzgerald in Limerick.

STAR of the hit TV series, The Wire, Dominic West will marry a Co Limerick woman at her family castle on the banks of the Shannon Estuary tomorrow.

THE funeral will take place today of a 51-year-old father-of-two, described as a community stalwart, who died in a tragic indoor football accident.

Shots were fired over the coffin of an IRA killer today in a blatant display of paramilitarism by dissident republicans.

The former Defence Forces Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Tadhg O'Neill, died at a hospital in Dublin today.

DIRECTLY across the road from the impressive stone church in west Cork’s Clonakilty town, this sizeable Western Road corner house also dates from the same 1880s period.

The Irish man shot dead by Bolivian police two weeks ago is due to be laid to rest in Co. Tipperary today.

GRIEF-STRICKEN communities yesterday buried two men in their 40s, who were killed in a head-on crash in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, last Monday.

A mother and daughter found dead in their home will be laid to rest today.