Mystery surrounds how a koi carp fish ended up in a fast-flowing, normally shallow Cork river and how it survived after being attacked by birds and territorially aggressive brown trout.

Tired but triumphant, a Cork student fulfilled his childhood ambition by swimming the River Blackwater River in Co Cork from Fermoy to Youghal non-stop yesterday.

The boy who died after falling into a river in Cork over the weekend has been named as James Casey Butler from the Tir Cluain estate in Midleton.

A seven-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after being pulled from a river in Co Cork this evening.

The body of a man who had been missing for almost a month was recovered from the River Lee in Cork yesterday.

One hundred tonnes of timber clogging a Cork river poses a serious threat to public safety in the event of a flood.

A man's body has been recovered from the River Lee in Cork city today.

A man found dead in the River Blackwater in Co. Cork yesterday afternoon has been identified.

Two bodies have been recovered from a river in County Cork.

A post mortem is to be carried out today on the body of a 14-year-old boy who drowned in the Co Cork town of Fermoy yesterday.

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

The search for a mother and her young daughter ended tonight when their bodies were discovered one mile from where their car plunged into a heavily flooded Cork river.

A truck driver has died in a road accident in Cork.