A striking mural featuring Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney has been unveiled at their former primary school.

Eoin Aher is from Cork and has been looking after the entertainment, band bookings and promo at Cyprus Avenue and the Old Oak in the city since 2003.

An animal charity has slammed the level of cruelty in the country after a pony had to be destroyed due to what they believe were several savage beatings inflicted over several days and weeks.

Gardaí seized €1,300 during a drugs search in Cork and today a man applied to have the money returned to him saying that a friend he visited regularly in hospital gave him the money as a gift.

A motorist who sped from gardaí through a red light and a pedestrian crossing hoped to have a three-month jail term overturned on appeal today but the judge decided to double the sentence instead.

An intermediate Cork hurler who spent two months remanded in prison for an assault on another man and a woman in Cork city centre was given a fully suspended two-year jail term.

Football clubs in Cork are appealing to members of the public to report anti social behaviour with one facility which has incurred €10,000 worth of damage in just twelve months warning that the situation is a crisis.

Parents of children as young as six months are being encouraged to get them involved in the first free health and wellbeing festival of its kind in Cork this weekend.

For fans of antidotes to high-speed communications, the proposal to include a time capsule in the next census will hold a certain romantic appeal.

Youths driving scrambler motorcycles on footpaths and green areas have become a serious issue for gardaí on the northside of Cork City.

Having swapped the slopes of Fairhill in Cork City for the snowy hills of Norway, Colum O’Farrell became Ireland’s first international biathlete. Last month, he finished second in the first-ever Irish Biathlon Championships

Gardaí have issued an appeal for help to find a missing man from Cork.

A 15-year-old boy spent 10 days in detention for failing to keep his bail conditions in cases where he drove a motorbike at a Garda car and kicked wing mirrors off three other cars.

The home of a Polish man in Cork was subjected to a sustained attack by a gang of men who threw stones at the property, causing €4,000 worth of damage.

A man storing €11,000 worth of cocaine substitute pentedrone has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.

Up to 500 hospital consultants have lodged papers in court seeking compensation for the State’s failure to pay higher salaries agreed in 2008, according to the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

A mother of nine has sued Cork City Council after she was struck by a €1 coin that flew up from a local authority lawnmower.

A Cork man who lunged at his own father despite the presence of gardaí was given a jail sentence yesterday suspended on condition that he would stay away from his parent’s home unless by their expressed invitation.

A drunk driver who was pursued “from one end of Cork to another” in a stolen van before “deliberately” driving at a stationary garda motorcyclist has moved to appeal his 12-year sentence.

A verdict of accidental death has been recorded following an inquest into the death of a man whose body was found in a slurry pit more than a month after he disappeared.

A young man threatened to smash up his grandfather’s house and gardaí arrived to find the pensioner visibly shaken and in fear.

Pavee Point has called for college scholarships and for earlier interventions in second level to keep Traveller children in school.

KNOTWEED is flowering, those beautiful, lacy flowers that first won the hearts of the ladies and gents of Victorian England. 

Corkman speaks out about State continuing to deny liability in school sex abuse case

Death or serious injury could have resulted from the outrageous driving of a man who, speeding away from gardaí, drove the wrong way around roundabouts and crashed into a CIÉ bus.

Two classmates who backed U2 rock star The Edge at a once-in-a-lifetime gig in the Sistine Chapel say the experience has inspired them to make music part of their lives.

A mother and her four adult children all pleaded guilty yesterday to various counts of money-laundering and, in one case, a €4,000 Post Office book and €2,000 in cash were found in a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box.

The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment on whether to return a young, first-time offender to jail for a nightclub glass assault, following an “undue leniency” appeal by prosecutors which raised “significant issues”.

The dead man found in a slurry pit in Cork on Thursday has been identified as 31-year-old Diarmuid Twomey, who had been missing since before Christmas.

A jobs centre which was earmarked for closure today in an unemployment blackspot has been thrown a lifeline.

The daughter of a man whose body was recovered from the River Lee yesterday, almost a month after he was reported missing, has issued an emotional thank you to all who helped in the search.

The family of missing Cork man Diarmuid Twomey have been dealt yet another blow after his mother passed away in hospital last night.

Gardaí investigating the mysterious disappearance of a man in Cork City last month have issued a fresh appeal for a taxi driver and three other men to come forward.

The partner of a missing man has issued an emotional appeal for him to come home to their two young children for Christmas.

Drugs squad gardaí chased a man through several back gardens after they uncovered his €5,000 stash of heroin and cocaine at waste ground.

Addicts sharing a bag of heroin became embroiled in a fatal argument when one failed to find a vein to inject the drug into the other, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.