Two men have been ordered to do 200 hours of community service after conspiring to swindle weekly jobseekers’ allowance totalling €3,824.

A woman was caught by the neck, turned upside down and spear-tackled head first into the ground by her husband outside a nightclub in Cork this week, it was claimed by a detective garda yesterday.

A man who left a city centre nightclub was jeered, punched, and kicked which left him unconscious on the ground with a broken eye socket and a broken cheekbone.

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There was good news on the jobs front yesterday with the announcement of nearly 300 jobs across the IT and hospitality sectors.

There are reports of localised flooding on Dublin's northside.

An urgent appeal for help has been issued for a Spanish couple — left without anything after a robbery — who were rushed to hospital after the mother went in to early labour.

A 33-year-old Cork woman was arrested and charged yesterday with 17 counts of theft related to the fraudulent claiming of over €43,000 of job seekers’ allowance for a period of more than four years.

Gardaí who raided a Cork apartment on Saturday found a Brazilian man and woman operating a brothel.

A young woman was left scarred over her eye after being struck with a glass at a nightclub and yesterday a man pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to her.

A 150-year-old Cork charity serving meals to 1,000 people a week is calling for donations of food in a bid to cater for growing demand.

Take your pick from items from some of the big Cork houses. Des O’Sullivan reports

THERE are those who say footballers are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers but they equally put them to good use off the pitch.

The former leader of the INLA in Dublin, Declan 'Whacker' Duffy, today publicly turned his back on the terrorist group and pleaded guilty to an INLA membership charge.

TODAY has long been earmarked as a landmark day for maternity services in Cork.