Residents of Sherkin Island, just across from the fishing village of Baltimore in West Cork, enjoyed the warmest weather in the country last month.

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Flood waters swept over Cork city centre again last night after another Atlantic storm battered the city and the city was subject to a status orange wind warning.

Pints were flowing in exchange for turf as a rural pub owner attempted to combat austerity.

There will be a changing of the top guard at the annual general meeting of Macra na Feirme in Charleville next Saturday.

A chemical engineer from Carrigane, Mitchelstown, Co Cork, and a barrister from Gurteen, Ballymore, Co Sligo, are the candidates at today’s election to select the next Macra na Feirme president.

Carbon monoxide killed a family of three in Christmas week 2011 after a plastic bag blocked a chimney.

A daughter whose parents were killed by a driver with nearly twice the legal alcohol level spoke of the heartbreak which will haunt her family to the day they die.

A motorist was yesterday found guilty of dangerous driving causing the deaths of a married couple when his 4x4 went onto the wrong side of the road and ploughed into their vehicle.

An alert has gone to abattoirs and livestock markets for a gang of rustlers which stole 105 sheep.

There are those who rave over the thoroughbred racehorse, the lines and the speed of Frankel and so on, but what if you have a field to be ploughed, what good is your Frankel then?

If you travel to Knock you might be in search of a miracle — just don’t expect any good weather.

Changes to the Waterford constituency will be of concern to TDs in Tipperary and Waterford City, writes Conor Kane

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Gardaí have described the deaths of three members of the same family at their County Sligo home on Sunday night as a tragic incident.

THREE people found dead in a bungalow died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

A middle-aged man found dead with his two children spent their last night alive visiting their sick mother in hospital.

The bodies of three people who died in a house in Gurteen, Co Sligo last night have been removed to Sligo General Hospital where post mortem examinations will be carried out.

A middle-aged man and his two children have died in a suspected accidental gas poisoning, gardaí said today.

A middle-aged man and his two children have been found dead in a house.

Tommy Barker finds a Bandon house with history in its blood and wooded grounds with pond, stream and an old bridge.

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DOWN by the sea and down in price, too, is this large, European-style property at Gurteen, Beara. On the tip of the peninsula at Eyeries, the house sits on an acre of ground and looks straight out to sea.

GRASS growth last week on Curtins Farm in the Teagasc Moorepark research centre was only 13kg per day, compared to an average for the previous three years of 24kg.

Motorists are being urged to take extreme care on the roads this morning with icy conditions reported in many areas.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen is to visit Buncrana Garda Station in Co Donegal later to pay his respects to the colleagues of a young garda who was killed following a crash yesterday morning.

Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern today led tributes to the young garda who died today after being injured in a head-on car crash.

A YOUNG garda was fighting for his life last night and another officer was hospitalised after a high-speed chase ended in a head-on collision with a suspected drunk driver.

’TIS only small, but the location is perfectly formed.

THE view is the star at this roadside, Roundstone, Co Galway property.

Two teenagers have been killed today in separate road accidents, according to gardaí.

TWO men died after a rush-hour collision between a car and a lorry in Limerick last night.

A 27-year-old man has been killed after a road accident in Co Kilkenny last night.

WILL the reinvigorated ‘Connemara 4’ phenomenon drive the €400,000 guide price of this Galway cottage through its quaint thatched roof?

A MAN died during a simple operation after suffering an unexpected and sudden allergic reaction to an antibiotic, an inquest heard yesterday.

IN the heart of what could be termed “alternative lifestyle country”, a farm at Gurteen, Dunmanway is on the high ground between Dunmanway and Inchigeela.

GREEN ISLE Foods is to close its fish breading facility in Boyle, Co Roscommon, resulting in the loss of up to 78 jobs.

A man died in hospital this afternoon following a road accident in Co. Galway last Sunday.

A cyclist in his 50s has died after being struck by a vehicle in Gurteen, Co Sligo, last night.

EVEN from the outside, Gurteen House near Bandon in Co Cork looks that bit different, but the differences really stack up on closer examination — spooky eyes follow your around the outside and inside of this unusual property mix.

THERE are two houses in the one property at Gurteen House, a couple of miles out of Bandon in Co Cork.

UP to 12 hours of torrential rain wreaked havoc across the south-east yesterday, with parts of Kilkenny and Wexford hardest hit.