Former Kerry star Seamus Scanlon has thanked former Cork footballing adversary James Masters and his Garda colleagues for coming to his pregnant wife’s rescue last week.

GARDAÍ are to prepare a file for the DPP after a farmer died of a massive heart attack, minutes after he was allegedly assaulted during a row over land.

PRELIMINARY results from a postmortem examination on the 65-year-old Co Cork farmer, who died after an alleged violent fracas, indicate that he suffered a heart attack.

A THIRD man has been charged in connection with the £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery.

ANGRY businesspeople in the mid-Cork region are to write to Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy demanding more Garda manpower following a spate of robberies perpetrated by a violent gang.