The family of Cork-born soldier Michael Maguire are considering further legal options after an inquest found he was unlawfully killed by a single machine gun bullet fired by a colleague during a training exercise.

A safety supervisor on a gun range where a Cork-born soldier died during a training exercise has refused to tell an inquest about events on the fateful day because of possible further legal proceedings.

An Irishman serving with the British Army was shot and killed by a single machine gun bullet to the head at a non-combat zone within an army training range, an inquest heard.

An Irish-born soldier who survived Afghanistan was accidentally shot dead during training when he was hit by machine gun fire from 1km away, an inquest in Cardiff has heard.

YOUR pictures of flooding (November 12) reminded me of a terrible tragedy when a young mother and baby were drowned at Coomhola in west Cork a few years ago.

A MAN who learned to walk again after being crushed to within an inch of his life in a freak farmyard accident is planning to take part in a marathon to raise money for the hospital that saved his life.

PEOPLE who lost out as refuse contractors collapsed in West Cork, or who have never had a proper collection, could be in for good news.

A BRAVE six-year-old boy desperately sought help after he was pushed clear from a four-wheel drive jeep swept away in a raging river flood that claimed the lives of his mother and sister.

A DISTRAUGHT local community gathered in sadness last night for the removal of the remains of the mother and daughter who lost their lives in a harrowing flash flood tragedy in West Cork last week.

A TRAUMATISED young boy who walked over a mile in torrential rain to get help for his mother and sister who later drowned was still asking for his mother last night.

Post mortems will be held today for a mother and her young daughter whose bodies were recovered from a heavily-flooded Cork river.

THE residents of a rural idyll near Bantry, County Cork, were last night struggling to come to terms with the horrific drowning yesterday of a mother in her thirties and her three-year-old daughter.

A MOTHER and her young daughter were drowned yesterday when their jeep was washed off a bridge into a flooded river at the entrance to their west Cork farm as they were returning home from a children’s party.