Vacant shop windows are being transformed into artistic tourist information panels as part of a new approach to tackle dereliction in Cork City.

A drugs taskforce met in Cork yesterday to discuss how best to tackle the city’s growing heroin crisis which saw a little boy jabbed by an addict’s needle he found discarded in his school yard.

Two American tourists had to be cut from a car after it flipped over on its side on a busy street in the north side of Cork city. The accident occurred when the car in which they were travelling clipped the rear wheel of a parked car on Gerald Griffin St, Blackpool, yesterday afternoon.

“A classic case of city thuggery” was how a sentencing judge yesterday described the actions of two thieves.

Two separate grant schemes have been launched to help tackle dereliction in the historic spine of Cork City.

A woman with more than 300 previous convictions has been sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment for a number of thefts in Tralee and Killarney during the Rose of Tralee festival last year.

AT a meeting of the Northside Principals’ Group meeting in Scoil Iosagáin, Farranree recently, 22 principals in Cork city met to discuss the proposed cuts to DEIS schools.

Gardaí say they do not suspect any foul play in the death of a woman whose body was found in an apartment in Cork city yesterday afternoon.

A woman’s body has been found in an apartment in Cork city.