Detectives have arrested a woman after seizing illegal drugs believed to worth almost €500,000.

GARDAÍ have smashed a major cocaine distribution ring following a raid on a drug-mixing factory in Cork and the seizure of an estimated €1 million worth of the drug.

ONE of Cork city’s best designed new apartment complexes is hiding its light under a bushel - you’d need a helicopter to realise just how successfully it has been squeezed into its quayside site.