Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has been urged to increase garda numbers in Cork city due to fears that the recent shooting of a senior Real IRA member will set off reprisals.

The key to identifying Aidan O’Driscoll’s killers may be stored in cameras of drivers who were in the Blackpool area of Cork City hours before last week’s brutal murder.

There is scope for further development on an eight-acre plot on Cork City’s new Mallow Road/old Commons Road, as the long-established Commons Express Inn comes up for sale.

A search is underway for a service dog missing in Cork.

With a little cash to upgrade the spec, this is ideal for first time buyers.

A long slash-hook was waved at gardaí when they called to a house in Cork in the early hours of the morning in response to a call for assistance for an injured woman.

There have been no injuries after a blaze broke out in Cork city this morning, the Fire Brigade has stated.

Emergency services are attending the scene of a fire in Cork.

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Well-situated property impresses on many fronts, says Tommy Barker

Power has been restored to all customers in the Cork suburb of Douglas following major flooding overnight, the ESB has confirmed.

ESB Networks is appealing to residents all over Cork to conserve electricity today, as they try to get customers back online after power outages caused by flooding.

More than 50 homes and many businesses were flooded and several thousand left without power after 50mm of rain fell in a seven-hour period across Cork.

Gardaí have identified the truck they believe was responsible for the spillage of hundreds of gallons of animal fat which caused several accidents on roads around Cork yesterday.

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GARDAÍ are poised to launch a murder probe today after a man was found with extensive head injuries lying in a pool of blood in a house in Cork.

HAULING sand and digging foundations under a blazing Indian sun may not be your ideal way to spend a college vacation — but for engineering student Gavin O’Brien, it was the experience of a lifetime.

A TOTAL of 19 dead horses have been found around Cork city in the past fortnight, some bearing signs of the worst neglect ever witnessed by welfare officers.

A YOUNG motorist who was seen racing a Honda Civic with another unidentified car on a dual-carriageway at 190 kilometres per hour has been banned from driving for a year.

DRAFT bylaws have been prepared to cut the speed limit in the heart of Cork city centre to just 30 kilometres an hour.

A GRIEVING son who lost his mother to cancer and a young woman whose baby died when he was just a day old were among the 10,000 participants in the four-mile Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon in Cork yesterday.

Three men were taken to hospital with stab wounds last night after a vicious incident in the Commons Road area of Cork city.

A NINE-year-old boy with a rare neurological disorder which renders him unable to speak has reportedly seen his condition dramatically improve following radical stem cell treatment in Dusseldorf in Germany.

A woman in her early forties has been tied up and threatened in her home in Co Louth.

WATER was being restored to a number of areas in Cork city yesterday and last night council officials said that all but 8,000 homes would have their supply restored by early this evening.

A suspicious device found attached to a vehicle in Co Meath this morning has been declared a hoax.

Bomb disposal experts are examining a suspicious device found outside a house in Co Meath this morning.

An elite squad of armed gardaí was today drafted into a Limerick housing estate to keep the peace after a teenager was stabbed to death.

A €100 MILLION redevelopment of one of Cork’s most iconic industrial sites got the green light last night.

A man has died following a single-vehicle road crash in Co Louth yesterday evening.

A POLISH man has been charged with dangerous driving following the death of a 25-year-old woman last weekend.

A man has been arrested in connection with a fatal road crash in Cork yesterday.

FOUR people died in road accidents over the weekend, bringing to seven the number of traffic fatalities since Friday.

A 25-year-old woman has died in a two-car crash in Cork.

A murder investigation was launched today after the death of a man who was assaulted almost a month ago.

TWO of the best-known people in Cork theatre were finalising the script last night for their fairytale wedding next week.

A hospital porter turned an apartment into a cocaine factory with a multi-million euro earning potential after meeting an Irishman in Thailand who told him how to go about it – and this evening he was jailed for twelve years.

A LONE gunman got away with €750,000 in a daring daylight raid on cash security personnel servicing an ATM in Dublin yesterday.

HOW QUAINT can you get? Apart from looking picture postcard lovely, Roseville Lodge, on the Commons Road, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin has access via a pedestrian bridge over the Shanganagh River.

Two people have been seriously injured in an accident involving a motorcycle and an articulated lorry on the Commons Road in Cork city.