Empty-nesters are being encouraged to downsize into secure and sheltered local authority housing in Cork City in a bid to free up larger homes for families on the housing list.

Some weeks ago, Martin McGuinness was interviewed and the murder of Paul Quinn, in 2007, was raised.

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Two schools and a hospital have been evacuated at the scene of two security alerts in Lurgan, Co Armagh.

A serial conman who once telephoned RTÉ’s Liveline to talk about his crimes has lost an appeal against a four-year jail term for theft and other offences.

A serial conman who once telephoned the RTE 'Liveline' show to talk about his crimes has failed in an appeal against his four-year sentence for theft and other offences.

A creche owner who removed books from playrooms because the children were “wrecking them” and who sent children to a “thinking chair” for bad behaviour was found to be in widespread breach of childcare regulations following an inspection.

The parents of a 5-year-old girl killed in an arson attack at her father's home have said they are pleased with her killers 13 year jail term.

A Sligo man has today been sentenced to 13 years in prison for the death of Mari Connolly-Keane in Boyle last October.

A 33-YEAR-OLD man charged with arson at a house where a five-year- old girl died earlier this month said he was “deeply sorry”, a court heard yesterday.

A 33-year-old man has appeared in court in connection with a house fire in Co Roscommon in which a five-year-old girl died.

A MAN who is squatting in a vacant NAMA property says he is delighted with his new home and will not leave without a fight.

THE tiny white coffin was decorated with Dora the Explorer stickers, but everyone attending five-year-old Mari Connolly’s funeral yesterday would have known her favourite colour was pink.

A MAN is recovering in hospital after he was slashed across the neck with a broken bottle and was only saved by the quick actions of a local nurse.

TWO youths used a chainsaw to try and cut through a post office in a terrifying attempted robbery yesterday.

The jury in the trial of a Cork father and son accused of laundering over £3m (€3.17m) from Belfast’s Northern Bank robbery of December 2004 was told today how gardaí found several bags bulging with Northern sterling in the home of one of the accused.

Elevated levels of lead were found in the tapwater of four areas of Co Clare after the local Council increased monitoring in recent weeks.

Police in the North were today no longer treating as suspicious the death of a woman in Co Tyrone.

Police in the North have questioned a man today after his former partner was found hanging at her home.

A man was being questioned today about the suspicious death of a woman in the North.

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THE stg£175,000 handed into gardaí in Cork by a local businessman has been sent to Dublin for technical examination, along with £2.3 million which was found at a house nine miles west of the city.

Gardai have named a 28-year-old man who died in a hit-and-run in Co Kerry this morning as Frank Keane, from Church View in Knockagree, Co Cork.