The HSE has made a settlement offer of €105,000 to a young woman whose baby boy died in hospital hours after he was born.

Kya deLongchamps visits a secret gem in Fermoy Co Cork, which lay hidden under brambles until found and sensitively brought back to life.

Today, July 28

Teagasc dairy experts and their industry partners are nearly ready to use an enhanced adaptation of cow’s milk to bring it even closer to mirroring the components of human breast milk.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Bizarre and disturbing texts were sent to a young woman in Cork referring to things in her personal life, such as her engagement, her home address and reference to a knife.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

It was meant to be just a girls’ day out, so it came as a mighty shock when Laura Jayne Halton was declared the best dressed lady at the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS yesterday.

Age: 26 

The man who lent his name to Cork city’s railway station, Thomas Kent, was aside from Robert Casement, the only 1916 leader executed outside of Dublin, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Many of us can only dream of jetting off to a remote destination but for one Cork man, this dream could soon become a reality.

IF we did not have, like all European countries, a big-house tradition, Irish literature would be a far less spectacular vista and our politics would be pretty different too.

Michael Flatley has urged foreign companies to set up in Ireland as part of a campaign aiming at attracting 5,000 new jobs to the country by the end of 2018.

The Cork man at the centre of an international cycling media storm has apologised to anyone he offended following his now infamous selfie with Sunday’s stage winner of the Giro d’Italia in Dublin, Marcel Kittel.

WILDLIFE tourism is a term we will be hearing more often in the not too distant future, now that eagles have started to breed here again as part of what looks like being a successful reintroduction programme.

White House planners did not include Cork in the first draft itinerary they prepared for President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Teagasc is investing up to €4m in a new research and education facility that will play a pivotal role in supporting the expansion of Irish farming in the context of Food Harvest 2020.

New products as well as overseas acquisitions, capital investments, and ambitious plans for post-2015 growth in emerging markets, form the back story to the €2bn revenue reported in the Irish Dairy Board’s (IDB) annual results for 2012.

This week street trend meets Caroline Kelleher and Patricia Looney, both from Cork.

A WOMAN walking in Cork city at three o’clock in the afternoon was kicked by a Fermoy man who first asked her, “Are you a nun?”

A trip to Britain, probably Perth next month, is on the cards for Esporao following his all-the-way win in the opening Down District Council Ladies Day At Downpatrick Maiden Hurdle on the Co Down track yesterday.

CHINA, Africa and other emerging economies will be core targets for new dairy products developed at the new Dairy Innovation Centre in Fermoy, Co Cork.

A TEENAGE boy drowned in the River Suir yesterday, while the body of an unidentified man was recovered from the River Blackwater near Fermoy.

CHANGES to school bus rules are an attack on rural Ireland and will mean new pupils travelling to different schools or their parents paying fares that are four times what they pay for their older brothers and sisters, teachers claimed yesterday.

A NEW specialist mobility vehicle outlet suitable for wheelchair -users is to open at CAB Motors in Co Cork.

THE €10,000 first prize in the Economic Breeding Index Discussion Group Competition, which promotes better breeding on dairy farms, was jointly won this year by two groups from the midlands and the south-west.

A PSV (Public Service Vehicles) inspector who has served 26 years in the gardaí told an inquest there were a number of factors which could have led to the deaths of two young male passengers when the car they were travelling in spun out of control and crashed.

ONE of the Duke of Devonshire’s estate managers, who has fed many rich and famous people, could make herself a small fortune after winning a major cookery competition.

THERE has never been a more important time for co-operative marts, a conference was told in Fermoy, Co Cork, yesterday.

THE parents of an 18-month old boy — one of only 50 people in the world to be diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease — have pleaded for people to donate money to medical research which could save his life.

CUSTOMS officers have seized almost 200,000 cigarettes after three operations in Cork.

Almost 200,000 cigarettes have been seized during the latest in a wave of anti-smuggling operations, officials said today.

KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL member John Brassil has been appointed chairman of Shannon Development.

Gardaí are calling for more urgency in the introduction of stab-proof vests for all members of the force.