One of a group of people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine-extraction laboratory has been refused bail.

The gang was being monitored locally by Cork drug units, nationally by the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and Customs, and internationally by the EU’s Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre.

A 71-year-old Englishman set fire to a neighbour’s van, endangering the life of a family with a newborn baby, because he believed he was being spied on by MI5.

DEFERENTIAL to classic design, but not a slave to it, is Rossacon House, a modern quality build within a walk of Bantry in west Cork.

A search is continuing in Co Cork for a man who went missing from a nursing home in Bantry earlier this week.

IN LAST Saturday’s Pick of the Day’s TV column in the Weekend Examiner we were told that one of Ireland’s stand-up comedians was “just waiting for the big break which would make him a household name in the rest of the UK”.