As a spacious, modern, well-maintained, energy-efficient, four-bed semi located within six kilometers of Cork city centre, No 35, Crawford Woods, Church Hill in Glanmire will tick a lot of boxes for a trade-up buyer. 

A major business organisation and the country’s largest Garda representative body have both expressed concern about the lack of progress in replacing a Garda station which has been described as “a deathtrap”.

Delays at the Forensic Science Laboratory were described by a district judge yesterday as “absolutely ridiculous”.

Below-cost vegetable sales are driving farmers out of a sector worth €350m annually to the local economy, the IFA said at protests outside Lidl and Aldi outlets.

An Armagh who was caught with 20,000 cigarettes and 240 packets of loose tobacco in Cork without payment of excise duty was given a one-year jail sentence suspended yesterday.

A touring health author who held a series of talks in Ireland last week has been accused of promoting banned substances that claim to prevent cancer.

The Government is expected to extend the Irish Naval Service humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean today as donations flood in for an aid convoy bound for Calais.

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THE latest addition to the Naval Service fleet, which is due to arrive this time next year, will be captained by an officer who lives in Glanmire, Co Cork.

There will be “no compromise” by protesting teachers in their opposition to proposed Junior Certificate reforms, the new president-elect of the 18,000-member ASTI has warned.

In the shadow of a big roadside sign promoting the upcoming Kinsale Community school show The Bodyguard, staff took it in turns to operate the picket line of groups of up to 10 teachers at a time, based on a pre-determined roster.

A ballistics expert criticised prosecution evidence about a garda flash-bang grenade as preposterous, requiring the kind of chance that would see one winning the lottery twice in a row

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It’s a Disney dream come true for young cycling fanatic Clodagh Hayes from Cork — a training session with Olympic gold medal cyclists Laura Trott and Jason Kennedy.

Gardaí are searching for the driver of a black BMW coupé whom they wish to question as part of their inquiries into the death of a young motorcyclist yesterday.

A young woman who was caught in a taxi with €70,000 worth of cocaine was jailed yesterday for six years with half of the sentence suspended.

When Clara Le Blanc, 3, could not sing a nursery rhyme to her baby sister, her mother, Karen, had no doubt she had suffered a stroke.

The respected traditional musician, poet, and writer Tomás Ó Canainn has died, aged 82.

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We scan a selection of trading up homes across the country

A British buyer used the Christmas wind-down period to swoop on one of Munster’s best country estates, one with a trail of British blue blood — and the River Blackwater — running through it.

A violent incident in a town on the outskirts of Cork City may have been sparked by a turf war involving ice-cream van operators.

In view of their heroics at the weekend, it would be fair to say that never has an Irish team given so much enjoyment to so many, as the Munster rugby team has for well over a decade.

PARENTS whose children attend a prestigious all-girls school are claiming over half the total Department of Education’s remote area grant scheme.

Gardaí at Glanmire, Co Cork are today seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of Shannon Cunningham, 16.

A CORK man who was seriously involved in the drug trade for profit was jailed for eight years yesterday.

SARAH HARTE has always wanted to be a writer.

THE brother of the only woman on tragic flight NM7100 has described her survival as miraculous and paid a deeply moving tribute to Cork city’s emergency services.

IN THE midst of all the doom and gloom, the recession, the IMF, the banks and the budget there was one good news story which got very little attention — at least a lot less than it deserved.

DAN O’CONNOR has already lost half a leg to diabetes, and saving the other depends largely on access to a podiatrist, a professional who identifies and treats diabetics at risk of foot ulceration, which, if untreated, can lead to amputations.

Some of the biggest names in the world of entertainment stood side by side with actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers this morning as he said a final farewell to his late mother.

THE Garda Technical Bureau is being drafted in to assist with an investigation into a missing Lithuanian man who may have been murdered.

"HANG on to those, Gran. I’ll be back in a minute."

THE body of a student who drowned in a tragic sea rescue last Sunday was recovered yesterday, close to where the people he helped save were washed ashore.

A PUBLICAN and first-time horse-breeder was toasting the birth yesterday of the first thoroughbred Andalucian colt to be foaled in Ireland.

A Cork teenager has pleaded guilty, minutes before his trial began at the Central Criminal Court, to unlawful carnal knowledge of a young girl.

SURVIVORS of paedophile cleric Brother Ambrose yesterday sought reassurances from the Brothers of Charity that the ailing brother will not have access to children and will receive professional help.

GARDAI are concerned about security at a centre for girls at risk after two teenagers claimed they were raped when they absconded from the unit.