Parents campaigning for a new, 800-pupil, all-Irish secondary school in a Cork town will meet TDs next week as they ramp up their campaign to avert a looming schools place crisis.

A man has been jailed for a kung-fu style kick on a garda which resulted in her requiring medical attention.

Fears have been expressed that thousands of voters in Cork could be disenfranchised after they received incorrect polling station information.

A university president went back to primary school for a day to mark the 20th anniversary of his college’s unique link to a gaelscoil.

Schoolchildren waved goodbye to cramped classrooms yesterday before a triumphant march into a spacious new state-of-the-art school.

A post mortem is to be carried out later on the body of a man in his 70s, who died following a workplace accident on a farm in Limerick yesterday.

A man has been killed on a farm in Co Limerick.

GARDAÍ have warned householders in a Cork suburb to be on the lookout for a number of teenage scam artists who are claiming they’re doing a sponsored fast for their school.

GLANBIA chairman Tom Corcoran is set to retire at today's meeting of the food group's board in Kilkenny, with vice chairman Michael Walsh expected to succeed him.

Gardaí were questioning two men today over the fatal assault of a 38-year-old as he celebrated Kerry’s All-Ireland football final victory.

GARDAÍ investigating the death of a 38-year-old man, following a row outside a pub after the All-Ireland, yesterday said some people who may have important information are not fully co-operating with them.

WHAT do you do with an old quarry when the digging has stopped? Dig a bit further, and then build up on it.

WITH a long slender, garden leading down to the main Cork/Killarney road, it’s not immediately obvious that this bungalow at Westbury, Coolroe, Ballincollig comes with a half acre of grounds.