Five people, including a four-year-old boy, were taken to hospital following a pile-up on the outskirts of Cork city which closed the main Cork-Limerick road for several hours yesterday.

Gardaí are investigating a crash in Cork City which left six people needing hospital treatment.

The planned redevelopment of Kent railway station, in Cork City, is the subject of a new application by Irish Rail.

Size: 196sq m (2,100sq ft)

Waterloo, Blarney, Cork €395,000

* The award-winning garden of Gertie and Maurice O’Donoghue at Dromboy, Carrignavar, will open this Saturday and Sunday from 2pm to 6pm in aid of the Friends of Marymount.

* The World Flower Show will run at the RDS, Dublin from June 19 to 22.

Two burglars in a stolen van careered through the streets of Cork without any regard for the safety of other motorists as they tried to escape pursuing gardaí.

Within the price grasp of better-off first time buyers at €250,000, but also big enough to be a home for all stages of the family cycle, is this spotless Ballinraha bungalow, near Blarney.

An organisation representing the Travelling community has said Travellers should have been consulted before recommendations for new laws on sulky racing were made to the Government, and that funding should be made available to promote the sport.

Sulky drivers should be forced to wear helmets and high-visibility jackets, have their carriages fitted with anti-roll bars, and provide the authorities with an event safety plan prior to obtaining permission to race on public roads.

A 47-year-old farmer became the 100th person to die on Irish roads this year when he lost control of his car and hit a ditch a short distance from his home.

The youngest of the men convicted of involvement in a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road, which became a YouTube sensation, avoided jail yesterday for his part in the dangerous escapade.

Nearly €100,000 worth of cigarettes were seized by customs officers supported by armed gardaí when they stopped a Ford Transit van on the outskirts of Cork City yesterday morning.

Councillors have claimed a new junction layout under construction on the main Cork-Mallow road will end up causing fatal accidents instead of preventing them.

Rail services on the Cork-Dublin line were cancelled for nearly three hours yesterday after a man died after being struck by a high-speed train.

Cork’s county manager has promised to do everything in his power to prevent a repeat of Traveller families taking over a main road for sulky racing.

Travellers who take over roads for sulky races should be evicted from halting sites and have their ponies and carts seized.

Gardaí in Cork are understood to be ready to make further arrests in relation to a serious incident which occurred on the main Cork to Mallow road last Saturday.

Torrential rain may have been a factor in the death of a 23-year-old woman, from a well-known north Cork business family, whose car was in collision with a truck on a main road on the outskirts of Cork City.

A woman in her 20s has died after the car she was driving was in collision with a truck on the Cork to Mallow road this morning.

GOD made Donoughmore and then he done no more, as the saying goes.

THREE weekend fatalities have brought the number of people killed on Irish roads to 170 this year and to 15 this month.

Gardaí have named the two people who died in separate crashes in Kilkenny and Cork yesterday.

NOBODY deserves to die in the way murdered taxi driver Michael Healy did, but this is not the time for anger, mourners were told at his funeral Mass.

AN executor’s sale of prime land in a superb location in north Cork should be the most talked-about deal of the autumn.

A HIGH specification characterises the four houses in the Arduinne scheme.

TREACHEROUS weather conditions led to scores of accidents throughout Cork yesterday, the worst of which resulted in the closure of the county’s only motorway.

WHILE drink driving, speeding and unqualified drivers are key factors behind the carnage on our roads, the quality of road design can also be major cause of fatal accidents.

A NEW home for summer, and in after the children finish school, That’s the timeline for four large 3,000 sq ft five bed homes being built at Burnfort.

OPENING a park-and-ride facility in Mayfield would be a disaster, according to Cork county councillors who want their counterparts in the city to abandon the idea.

I WISH to protest against the waste of taxpayers’ money on barriers in the middle of part of the Cork-Mallow Road. With the vast sums spent on the new road, the public are entitled to something better.

THE people of a north Cork town were urged yesterday to seek a judicial review if a developer is granted permission to build 73 houses and a 100-bedroom hotel.

PLANS for a €300 million tunnel, up to five kilometres long, are to be lodged with the National Roads Authority as part of the proposed northern ring road around Cork city.

I REFER to your report of the fatal car accident at Rathduff on the Cork-Mallow road (Irish Examiner, April 6).

Two people have been killed already this bank holiday weekend.

Gardai have named the 23-year-old woman who was killed in a road accident in Galway last night.