A five-year-old schoolboy was jabbed by a heroin addict’s needle which was thrown into his school’s play area minutes before break time yesterday.

A WOMAN who attacked security staff and gardaí at the emergency department of a Cork hospital and shouted that she hoped patients would die was yesterday jailed for six weeks at Cork District Court.

There is no mental health treatment centre here capable of caring for a teenage girl whose violent temper has resulted in 30 convictions for assault, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

CORK’S city manager has pledged to use the full weight of the law to tackle dereliction blighting one of the city’s most historic communities.

NOT pretty to look at, any of them, but pretty damn cheap as a compensating factor, is this clutch of basic Cork homes, offered at prices not really seen in the city for quite a few years.

SHOWBAND legend Brendan O’Brien died of cardiac failure in association with acute alcohol intoxication, an inquest was told.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy was hit in the back in a random drive-by shooting in Cork city centre yesterday.

A 24-year-old woman is recovering in hospital after she was shot in the hand in Limerick this morning.

THE boy who died when his family’s mobile home was engulfed in flames on a Limerick halting site on Sunday has been named as Thomas Connors Jnr, aged six.