Teeming with common lodging houses, and home to a criminal underworld of murderers, pornographers and child gangs, TV show Ripper Street is back tonight for a second series.

JEREMY LEE of Quo Vadis in London rolled into town last week and gave a hilarious one-day course at Ballymaloe Cookery School.

A good friend lives on Dean Street and has watched with dread as this stadium has gradually risen almost literally on her doorstep.

THE college student whose body was found in Cork on Tuesday, five days after he went missing, will be buried tomorrow.

The body of UCC student Caolan Mulrooney has been removed to Cork University Hospital where a post mortem examination will take place tomorrow.

THE father of a missing student has urged people to focus on a specific part of Cork city after CCTV images tracked his son’s movements away from the River Lee.

It’s served by dozens of direct flights, and spilling over with great shops, restaurants, museums and shows. It’s London, baby, and it’s time you paid another visit, says Pól Ó Conghaile.

More than half of the shops in the Celtic Bookmakers chain have been saved from closure, it was revealed tonight.

Irish twins John and Edward Grimes were freshening up their careers in the recording studio today – with Shake n’ Vac.

A father-of-three gunned down in front of customers in a Dublin pub was a suspected major drug dealer, it emerged today.

AT a time when planning authorities elsewhere are trying to keep traffic out of city centres, Kilkenny’s application to An Bord Pleanála for permission to construct and inner relief road which will funnel heavy traffic through the ancient centre of the city is worryingly out of step with the rest of the world.

The route of the planned new Luas through west Dublin was unveiled today with tram lines running from Trinity College in the city centre to Lucan.

Two people have been brought to hospital in Dublin following a two vehicle collision in the city centre this morning.

CLOSE enough to Cork’s St Fin Barre’s Cathedral to hear the choirs, the former Verger’s House is going for something a bit more than a song.

THE time to drive a literal or even metaphorical coach and horses through 13 Marguerita Villas has passed — it is set for a sympathetic renewal.

A YOUTH who claimed he had been doused in petrol and set alight in a late-night mugging has told gardaí the incident never happened.

A 17-year-old man is recovering in hospital today after he suffered serious burns in Cork city, after he claimed he was set on fire on Barrack Street in the city.