Detectives were questioning a man and a woman last night about a daylight knife attack on a woman in Cork City earlier this year.

Gardaí are investigating the possibility a daylight knife attack on a young woman, leaving her with serious slash injuries to the face, may be connected to another incident which happened in Cork City just over a week ago.

Plans to establish an arts quarter in Youghal have taken a step forward.

An east Cork town hopes to reverse a long-term commercial decline on two of its main thoroughfares by transforming the area into an arts quarter.

THE first solicitor to be found guilty of overcharging child abuse victims for cases brought before the Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) has been censured and fined a total of €5,000.