Tests carried out by two students which showed significant contamination of seawater at two popular West Cork beaches will go on display at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition from today.

Three decades after her last exhibition in her home county, Vivienne Roche joins four other Cork-based artists to display their work in Kinsale, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Tommy Barker is blown away by this spectacularly set, architect-designed, no-expense spared home.

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The former director of a hepatitis C support group, who stole €116,000 from the organisation, has been given a chance to raise compensation.

Old Head home seeks new hands, says Tommy Barker.  

Bridgehill is a quality house in a special setting, says Tommy Barker.

Pat Coholan shows the Irish Examiner around his 1979 VW Golf 1.5 Diesel GL

What a setting — it’s been sought-after, for 800 years or so.

TWO big Kinsale offers come to market independently this week for receivers — one being 95 acres of spectacularly-sited land at Pregane, next to where a €200m golf resort development was proposed a decade ago.

A seaside town in Cork has been dealt a severe blow as its main strand looks set to be shut to swimmers next summer over water safety concerns.

Triskel Christchurch is preparing for a temporary takeover of its visual art offerings by John P Quinlan, the figure behind the establishment of the Vangard Gallery in Macroom in 1991.

Met Éireann has warned of a major flooding risk both from expected stormy weather from Wednesday onwards and from heavy rainfall which will swell rivers already near capacity.

The customers of a well-known pub/restaurant were hoping for a lock-in as the storm raged, but as its owner surveyed the massive damage being inflicted outside his premises there was only one option: evacuation.

The benefits of water and surfing for children with autism are manifold.

Cork County Council has been urged to deploy more litter wardens on beaches after sun worshippers left some of them looking like rubbish tips.

Sideline scrum now the bane of rugby

IT’S the little village with the big name — renowned far and wide for certain mysterious movements.

THE RAIN, it rains on the just and the unjust. And has been doing so forever. Complaining about the weather in Ireland is like Mrs Lincoln complaining about the play.

CONNA, CORK €340,000

A TOURIST who tried to climb a sheer cliff on the Cork coast in his bare feet after becoming trapped by the tide came within minutes of death, the Coast Guard said last night.

IN these recessionary times, the helicopter business has been hit hard.

YOU could take a sledgehammer to this Kinsale cottage — the former labourer’s cottage is on a site so good it merits going for planning for a replacement dwelling, larger, and on a different portion of the site to get sea views.

Oliver Hayes is due to be sentenced later for the murder of West Cork widow Anne Corcoran.

HOODED and clearly shaken, Oliver Hayes entered Kinsale courthouse last year to shouts of “you lousy bastard” and “scumbag”.

AS Ann Corcoran’s partially burnt body lay wrapped in bin bags buried under a mound of earth in a woods in Garrettstown, Co Cork, her murderer, Oliver Hayes, was using her money to fund a skiing trip in Austria with his girlfriend.

Anne Corcoran’s killer drew gardaí a map of where he burned and buried her body after a garda recognised him from CCTV footage withdrawing money from her bank account.

AS flood clean-ups got under way throughout Cork yesterday the ice returned, creating treacherous driving conditions which are likely to feature in the coming days as the cold snap once again takes a grip.

The vast majority of services around the country are operating as normal with some delays, Bus Éireann has reported.

A date has been set for the trial of a 49 year-old man accused of murdering a 60 year-old woman whose body was found buried in woodland in west Cork earlier this year.

A date has been set for the trial of a 49-year-old man accused of murdering a 60-year-old woman whose body was found buried in woodland in west Cork earlier this year.

RICH pickings in the foreland? A plumly-positioned south Cork cottage not only has sandy and surf-friendly beaches nearby, it also has one of the country’s most exclusive (and inaccessible) golf courses as a near neighbour.

THIS looks the easiest of the 10 Cork County Council electoral areas to predict, especially as it’s only a three-seater – and the three outgoing councillors are firm favourites to be returned.

THE High Court has heard that a man held in custody on a charge of false imprisonment is to be also charged with the murder of west Cork widow Anne Corcoran in January.

THE complete Garda file on the investigation into the killing of a Co Cork widow is to be delivered to the DPP next Friday.

Lucky by name — lucky by nature.

Co Cork widow Ann Corcoran has been laid to rest following funeral mass near her home in Kilbrittain this morning.

Gardaí are expected to identify the body found in a wooded area of west Cork yesterday as that of missing woman Anne Corcoran.

A man is due to appear in court this evening, charged in connection with the disappearance of Cork woman Anne Corcoran.

Gardaí are checking to see if a bank card belonging to Anne Corcoran was used by someone else since she went missing 16 days ago.

AFTER the razzmatazz of his arrival died away, Doug Howlett had to settle in.

A north-inner-city Dublin man has been given 16 years in consecutive sentences by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in an attempted Securicor cash van heist while he was on bail for having cocaine for sale or supply.