As we enter the final week of the election campaign, our in-house agony aunt Ask Audrey shares her tips for dealing with canvassers, and tries to predict the winners.

Fine Gael Senator and General Election candidate, Colm Burke, is confident that an incident which saw his office vandalised is not connected to the theft of hundreds of his posters.

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It is all eyes on Fianna Fáil in Cork North-Central where the party is scrambling to continue its presence in the wake of Billy Kelleher’s departure to Europe.

A man was arrested after an incident at a property in the Farranree area of Cork city this morning.

The family-friendly parade will mix red-hot jazz bands with fiery Cork characters who will dance through the city streets in a dramatic musical procession.

A court in Cork has heard how a man dealing with the grief of his mother’s death had his car was stolen shortly afterwards, adding to his distress.

A young man drank too much at an anniversary to commemorate the death of his grandmother and his behaviour resulted in gardaí being called.

The late father of former Republic of Ireland player and Assistant Manager, Roy Keane, considered all of his children to be stars, his funeral mass has heard.

The father of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane has died after a long illness.

Two young women who took part in a highly unusual shoplifting escapade even asked for extra bags as the large paper bags they were using were tearing under the strain of being packed with so many clothes, a court has heard.

A boy, 4, has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after he was knocked down on the northside of Cork.

A Traveller activist who ran in the local elections in Cork city plans to continue his campaigning work despite failing to win a seat.

The revamped Cork City local electoral areas are posing challenges and changes across the city but the northside of the river is undergoing a far more drastic change.

In the third of a five-part series on the local elections, Kevin O’Neill profiles the revamped Cork City North-West district

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.

A middle-aged man became concerned about screams from a woman next door and when he called to the house to see if she was OK, he was kicked in the groin by the woman’s attacker.

A man wearing a Scream mask raided a sweet shop in Cork city and yesterday was sentenced to five years in jail with half of it suspended.

Ask Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages...

A primary school in Cork City has closed for a week, due to pest infestation.

Four women who stole €4,777 worth of clothes from Penneys in Cork were so laden with bags that one of them asked for the help of a shop assistant to carry the stolen property out of the shop.

Sorting out Cork people for ages

Any fears that the Cork element of The Young Offenders might have been diluted by the BBC’s involvement in the upcoming TV adaptation have been allayed by a viewing of the first episode.

Ask Audrey has been sorting out the people of Cork for years.

Extra work still needed in some poorer, urban areas, survey finds

Empty-nesters are being encouraged to downsize into secure and sheltered local authority housing in Cork City in a bid to free up larger homes for families on the housing list.

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Nicola Collins in Cork earlier this year.

The National Lottery celebrates its 30th birthday this week and in that time has created more than 800 millionaires and donated almost €5 billion to charitable causes.

A sheltered housing scheme for downsizing over-60s was among four social housing projects approved for Cork City last night.

A mother whose partner drowned last year is sleeping in her car with her five children because she is unable to source emergency accommodation from Cork City Council.

A group of Cork City fans involved in a pre-match fight with visiting Bohemians supporters are missing a historically successful season for the League of Ireland leaders as they are banned from Turners Cross stadium.

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).

Ms Collins was murdered in a flat on Popham's Road in Farranree in the early hours on Monday morning.

Gardaí have arrested a 44-year-old man in connection with the murder of Nicola Collins.

Nicola Collins, 39, who lived in Togher, sustained injuries to head, neck in flat in Farranree

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

The key to identifying Aidan O’Driscoll’s killers may be stored in cameras of drivers who were in the Blackpool area of Cork City hours before last week’s brutal murder.

Gardaí were last night working to identify three men who died when their car burst into flames following a two-vehicle collision in Waterford yesterday.

A free open-air gig outside the Opera House kicked off the 34th annual Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, which is expected to attract 40,000 fans to the city this bank-holiday weekend.

A survey carried out by Irish Business Against Litter shows that rubbish is largely limited to neglected city areas.