Clonakilty Gardaí are investigating a fatal road traffic collision which occurred at Owenahincha Cross, Rosscarbery, Clonakilty at around 3pm today.

A man who admitted playing a game of “chase and tickle” with young girls on a summer day in 1996 but denied any indecency has been found guilty of sexually assaulting three of the girls during the game.

Vandals could have jeopardised the education of hundreds of pupils, a board member of a West Cork school has said.

Bad weather and the possibility of oil on the road may have played their part in a crash which claimed the life of a 64-year-old drapery assistant.

A woman in her 80s died in West Cork yesterday afternoon after her car collided with a lorry.

Business people in West Cork are being urged by gardaí to “wake up” to the risks of crime.

Criminals are risking causing a “catastrophic” road crash disaster after stealing almost €35,000-worth of essential life-saving emergency equipment from a West Cork fire station.

Gardaí are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 31-year-old Bernard "Bart” O’Donovan from Ballygurteen, Co Cork.

GARDAÍ are searching for masked raiders who attacked an elderly man after breaking into his West Cork home on Halloween night.

FOUR counts of hit and run and possession of an offensive weapon were among the charges brought against a 47-year-old man who was involved in a collision which left an 83-year-old man in a serious condition in hospital on Thursday.

GARDAÍ have arrested the driver of a stolen van involved in a hit and run crash in Co Cork which left an 80-year-old man in a serious condition in hospital.

GARDAÍ believe a bogus detective, who conned an elderly man in west Cork last weekend, may be the same person who has preyed on pensioners in other parts of the country.

ROAD safety chiefs have condemned a YouTube clip which shows a car performing a potentially lethal jump over a public road.

PUB-GOERS who tore the burning clothes off a man who doused himself in petrol and set himself alight have been praised for saving his life.

A “CONTRITE” Fianna Fáil TD who received a one-year driving ban yesterday for drink driving said he wants to get back to work for his constituents.

Cork South West TD Christy O'Sullivan (Fianna Fáil) has been disqualified from driving for one year and fined €300 after he pleaded guilty to drink-driving.

THE case against a Fianna Fáil TD accused of drink driving has been adjourned for a month.

A murder investigation was launched in west Cork today, where the body of a man was discovered in a slurry pit on a farm near Dunmanway on Thursday.

Tests carried out tonight on a body removed from a slurry tank on a remote farm in west Co Cork are expected to determine if the person was murdered.

GARDAÍ arrested a 32-year-old man last night in relation to the murder of a young mother of three in West Cork last week.

GARDAÍ conducting a murder probe hope to speak to a Turkish barber today after a post mortem yesterday confirmed that his ex-partner died of multiple stab wounds.

THE home of an elderly lady was gutted by fire on Hallowe’en night.

GARDAÍ were last night questioning a Moldovan man arrested in connection with a fire that gutted a West Cork restaurant.

A FILE is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions after gardaí last night released a man without charge following the death of a father-of-seven in Skibbereen, Co Cork.

A POST mortem has confirmed that a Co Cork father-of-seven, who died in a caravan on Monday, died from head injuries, gardaí said last night.

A MOBILE home owner claimed yesterday she was forced out of a holiday retreat in West Cork after chemically treated human excrement was spread beneath her caravan.