Century-old secret police files released to the public for the first time reveal the efforts made to monitor suspected revolutionaries in the 11 months leading up to the 1916 Rising.

A law degree drop-out has been jailed for life for smashing a stranger’s head with a brick while high on a synthetic drug.

Freshly painted on the outside, and in good nick inside, the terraced, older-era home at 47 Green Street in Cork will get investor and private buying interest.

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Renovated, upgraded townhouse is a handy pad, reports Tommy Barker

THE father of a missing student has urged people to focus on a specific part of Cork city after CCTV images tracked his son’s movements away from the River Lee.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a serious assault in Cork city on Tuesday night.

Fashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in his wardrobe after leaving a note at the scene, an inquest heard today.

ALEXANDER McQueen’s family gathered for his mother’s funeral yesterday just one day after the fashion designer killed himself.

THE world of fashion was reeling yesterday after the apparent suicide of “creative genius” Alexander McQueen.

The fashion world was left reeling tonight by the death of celebrated British designer Alexander McQueen.

A TYRONE man appeared before a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin yesterday on charges of IRA membership and related weapons offences.

A Tyrone man was today brought before the Special Criminal Court and charged with membership of the IRA and the possession of a firearm and ammunition.

ON the second day of Christmas, Portsmouth gave to West Ham three vital points, for the second year in succession.

Hollywood star Nicolas Cage will turn on the Christmas lights in Bath, England, tonight.

English police and football club officials were today scouring CCTV footage in a bid to pinpoint those responsible for mass violence between rival fans in which a man was stabbed in the chest.

The Special Criminal Court has remanded in custody five men arrested in connection with the discovery of explosive materials in a Dublin apartment.

Gardaí in Dingle are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a missing man.

WITHIN 10 years the physical landscape of Cork city will be changed utterly. The regeneration of the City Quarter area, allied to the exciting proposals for the docklands (the proposed Atlantic Quarter), will alter the face of Cork forever and elevate the city and its environs to a bright, brand new plateau.

LONG-RUNNING plans to provide a cafe and other services on Great Blasket island will be the subject of a Bord Pleanála hearing in Dingle next month.

GAELTACHT Minister Eamon Ó Cuiv has referred to Dingle being only one of 2,319 placenames changed by his order on the exclusive use of Irish names.

Former You’re a Star contestant George Murphy will appear in court today to face an assault charge.

LOCALS in the village of Callan, Co Kilkenny, were yesterday checking to see if Christmas had come early after news broke that the €3.1 million winning lotto ticket had been sold in the town.

A gang used a stolen digger to break an ATM free from a building but they failed to get any cash, gardaí said today.

A GANG has failed to raid an ATM machine, this time using a stolen tractor.

Six men were cleared of being members of the Continuity IRA and one man was convicted of the charge at the Special Criminal Court today after one of the longest trials in the history of the court.

A Monaghan man who was arrested by detectives investigating the Omagh bombing was today charged in the Special Criminal Court in Dublin with membership of an unlawful organisation, the IRA.

A High Court judge today launched a scathing attack on conditions in the Special Criminal Court and contrasted them to the luxurious surroundings of the Court Service headquarters.

A bride walked down the aisle to the tinny sound of Here Comes the Bride played on a mobile phone after the organist failed to get to the church on time.

The British ambassador in Ireland, Ivor Roberts told the Special Criminal Court today that he had been advised by members of the British security service in Ireland and in London that all relevant material relating to David Rupert, the chief prosecution witness against the alleged leader of the Real IRA Michael Mckevitt, had been disclosed to the defence.

Convicted drug dealer and armed robber, Jeffery Mitchell, who was arrested on Friday evening after four days on the run, has been remanded in custody at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A GARDA hunt was underway yesterday after one of Dublin's top criminals went on the run just as he was due to be sentenced for armed robbery.

A prominent Dublin criminal has gone on the run after absconding from Dublin Circuit Criminal Court where he was due to be sentenced today on serious armed robbery charges.