A fundraising page has been set up to pay the funeral costs of a 16-year-old girl who died in a crash on the northside of Cork city on Wednesday night.

Gardaí are investigating the incident which took place at around 11.45pm on Harbour View, Knocknaheeney.

Parents of children as young as six months are being encouraged to get them involved in the first free health and wellbeing festival of its kind in Cork this weekend.

Plans will be unveiled today for over 100 new homes which will be built on Cork’s northside as part of one of the largest housing regeneration projects in the country.

A teenager spat at paramedics bringing him to hospital in an ambulance and continued to shout abuse at them in hospital within earshot of other patients at the accident and emergency unit.

A 30-year-old man who was seriously injured in a crash after a high-speed car chase — in which two teenagers were killed seven years ago — will have to wait a little longer to find out if he is going to be compensated for his injuries.

A 30-year-old man who was seriously injured in a crash after a high speed car chase — in which two teenagers were killed — has brought a case for compensation before the High Court.

The new Lord Mayor of Cork says he is confident that a “fair compensation package” for the county council can be worked out to secure a city boundary extension.

A Cork city suburban bar and off-licence, on a site of 0.3 of an acre, is up for sale in an evolving community, close to a new multi-million euro public library, a shopping centre with Super Valu, the progressive and highly-regarded Terence McSwiney Community College — and Apple’s European HQ, employing thousands.

A stretch of road between Cork City centre and Ballintemple is considered the most dangerous in Cork, according to a Garda rating system used to determine the location of speed cameras.

A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of a young Kerry man who was granted bail to attend his mother’s funeral but failed to turn up in court yesterday.

CORK GIY will have its first first outdoor visit of the year, and seedling swap at Knocknaheeny/Hollyhill Community Gardens. 

Gardaí in Cork have arrested two people and seized around €5,000 worth of heroin after searches on the city’s northside.

Traffic and building shoulder height issues have been raised in a submission by management of Cork’s Elysian development in relation to revised office block plans for a neighbouring city centre site.

A Cork man has failed in an appeal against his conviction and six-year sentence for dangerous driving causing the death of two teenagers.

Detectives are planning to speak to a 31-year-old man who is recovering after he was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle.

Bah humbug — Cork’s city officials have been forced to slash the number of Christmas tree recycling sites after a spate of arson attacks.

A MAN who stole wood from a convent to throw on a bonfire was so drunk when gardaí found him he couldn’t get down from the wall of the property without the officers’ assistance.

GARDAÍ arrested a man yesterday and charged him with assault causing harm to another man at a pub in Cork City.

A MAN who died of cancer two years ago was exposed to asbestos over a six-month period 40 years ago and yesterday his family was awarded €190,000 compensation.

Three people have been remanded in custody in connection with assaulting three gardaí in Cork city yesterday evening.

THE driver of the car in which two Cork city teenagers were killed earlier this year had been an escaped prisoner.

The drivers of two cars convicted by a jury of dangerous driving causing the death of two teenagers were jailed today – one for six years, the other for four.

THE sentencing judge in the case against the two men who caused the deaths of two teenagers in Knocknaheeny last May apologised that it could not go ahead yesterday because one defence senior counsel was not present in court.

The jury in a trial relating to the death of two teenagers on the road in Knocknaheeny last May returned verdicts of guilty against both accused men this evening.

THE jury in a trial related to the death of two teenagers on the road in Knocknaheeny last May was invited by the prosecution yesterday to take the view that the deaths were caused by the joint driving of the two accused.

THE jury in the trial relating to the death of two teenagers on the road in Knocknaheeny last May was discharged from dealing any further with one of the accused yesterday.

Three of the six men on trial on charges arising out of a series of incidents culminating in the death of two teenagers on the road in Knocknaheeny last May were found not guilty this afternoon and walked free from the case.

CORK city council followed the county council’s lead and is making grit and salt available to the public this weekend.

DETAILED evidence was given in a trial yesterday of what was seen in the seconds before two cars crashed, resulting in the deaths of two teenagers.

A TRIAL related to the crashing of two cars that resulted in the deaths of two teenagers will continue on Monday following legal argument in the absence of the jury.

A TEENAGER who claimed attackers danced on his head, threw him into the boot of a car and drove him to a cemetery, denied yesterday he would say anything in support of his own gang to get other men convicted.

A COMPLICATED trial of six men facing different charges arising out of a series of incidents culminating in the road deaths of two teenagers in Knocknaheeny, Cork, last May has been listed for trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on November 23.

TWO teenagers suffered multiple fatal injuries when the car in which they were travelling struck the side of a house, an inquest heard yesterday.

BOOKS of evidence were served yesterday on two men accused of dangerous driving causing the death of two teenagers in Cork last May.

Books of evidence were served today on two men accused of dangerous driving causing the death of two teenagers in Cork last May.

THREE more men were charged yesterday with false imprisonment arising from a Garda investigation into a car crash which claimed the lives of two teenagers in Cork city last May.

A CORKMAN will be tried by judge and jury on charges of dangerous driving causing the death of two teenagers in Cork earlier this year, the Director of Public Prosecutions has directed.

A charge of dangerous driving causing the death of two teenagers was brought against a man who made an unsuccessful bail application today.

A SIXTH person has been arrested in connection with the fatal road crash in Knocknaheeny earlier this month which led to the deaths of two teenagers.

A man in his 20s is being questioned by gardaí in Cork in relation to a crash which claimed the lives of two teenagers.

FOUR people who were questioned on Thursday in relation to an incident linked to a fatal car crash the previous week have been released without charge. The three men and one woman were released from Tralee and Gurranabraher Garda Stations, with a file being sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

A CLOSE friend of 19-year-old Derry O’Callaghan paid a heartbreaking tribute to the Cork city teenager during his packed-out funeral yesterday.