A 15-year jail sentence was imposed on a man for sexually assaulting eight girls over a ten-year period as the judge said the man had enticed the girls into his house and then committed "very nasty" sexual assaults.

THE owners of a quarry alleged to be illegal have been told to halt all operations.

THE eye-in-the-sky garda helicopter will be scanning traffic and the movements of boy racers during what is sure to be a hectic bank holiday weekend in Killarney.

PLANS for one of Ireland’s largest retirement villages have been overturned.

STAN DE GAME, jointly owned by Con Riordan and Kevin Downing from Ballymacoda, Co. Cork and trained by John Condon in Curraglass, collected his second All-Aged Stake of the season when he won the Fitzgerald Cup at Glanworth yesterday.

IT took years to sell, but when it did it sold well. Templehill Farm, on one of the highest points to the west of Cork city, has been bought by a local farmer for in excess of €3m.

A MEMBER of a “ruthless and very violent gang” beat a householder around the head and body with a baseball bat and stole his car as they tried to evade gardaí after carrying out a string of robberies early yesterday.

AN Bord Pleanála (ABP) has refused permission for a large housing development in the village of Crossbarry, but given the green light for a windfarm in Bantry.