Two men were charged with the most serious charge under the drugs act yesterday arising from the seizure of €126,000 worth of cannabis resin on the main Cork-Dublin motorway in February.

The gently undulating landscape lying to the north of Cork city has a mix of farm and industrial life.

As Tommy Barker discovers, from humble beginnings, a one-time modest hillside cottage above Glanmire is now something way more spectacular.

Amanda Marcotte of the online magazine Slate did the state some service recently when pinpointing a flaw or two in the admittedly tired criticism of the Women’s World Cup, which was running over the past few weeks.

There has been much debate in the media in recent weeks about the continuing decline in air traffic at Cork Airport. Much of it argues that full independence from the Dublin Airport Authority is needed to get passenger numbers back to the level of the last decade.

A man in his 20s died yesterday in a crash in North Cork after his car was in a collision with a four-wheel-drive travelling along a motorway in the wrong direction.

WHEN it comes to the issue of fuel stations that serve the motorist in Ireland, our progress seems to be going in a distinctly negative direction in recent years.

Gardaí will this morning resume a manhunt for a gang of three men on the run after allegedly carrying out a spate of burglaries in south Tipperary.

A €7 MILLION service station has opened near Monasterevin, Co Kildare, which will provide services for motorists on the motorway linking Dublin with Limerick, Cork, Clare, Tipperary and Kerry.

GARDAÍ have issued an alert for a missing 16-year- old from Cobh, Co Cork.

MAKE us an offer — so say the builders and developers of Pairc na gCrann, as they price slash their last, five remaining houses in the 60-plus, Glanworth, Co Cork development.