A six-year-old boy has died after he was hit by a van on Friday.

An six-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a van in Co Dublin.

A man in his 20s who died after a hit-and-run in Dublin on Wednesday night has been named.

Update 9.24am: Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to last night’s serious hit-and-run incident at Hazelwood Drive, Kilmore, Coolock, Dublin.

While householders and business owners have broadly welcomed the publication of plans for €8m worth of flood defences in Glanmire, they’ve also raised some concerns — primarily the need to see them completed in a timely fashion and with as little disruption as possible.

Connacht and Ireland Prop Nathan White has been forced to retire.

Most of the detailed design for a €7.7m flood prevention scheme in Glanmire, Co Cork, has been completed and it is expected construction will get under way next spring.

Some East Cork families will be seeing in 2016 in five-star accommodation after their homes were swamped by flood waters, while eels were yesterday swimming down streets in Midleton as Storm Frank took its toll on the region.

Two buying types looking at accommodating home, says Tommy Barker.

A bar in the growing Cork satellite town of Glanmire has a sale date for full and final offers tomorrow, at a price in excess of €600,000. It sold in 2002 for as much as €3m.

Plans have been unveiled for a €10m flood-relief scheme to protect a Cork satellite town which suffered serious damage in summer 2012.

Irish rugby was relatively slow to cotton onto the benefits accrued from assimilating players with southern hemisphere backgrounds into the national team, but that process has belatedly taken hold in recent years.

A 32-year-old man who claims he was left with a brain injury after he tripped and fell in a car park at night has settled his High Court action for €1m.

Details of a proposed €11m plan to combat flooding in East Cork will include the building of walls and embankments.

A horse racing tradition that has endured, and blossomed, since it first took place in north Cork, in 1752, will be re-enacted on Saturday, Oct 13.

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.

The tight-knit community of Rindoon Park and Hazelwood in Athlone was last night coming to terms with the tragic drowning of two-year-old Liam Keogh.

Council chiefs have been ordered to report on the state of a ghost estate where a two-year-old boy drowned yesterday.

A BEREAVED mother has spoken of her “extraordinary, life-changing heartache and pain” after losing her 22-year-old daughter in a car crash.

The High Court has heard a Dublin man charged because of a €600,000 armed cash in transit raid broke his bail terms when he started a 10-day drinking binge on St Patrick's Day.

THE University of Limerick (UL) has been urged to increase its efforts to prevent students from making neighbouring housing estates “look like a slum”.

INTERCONTINENTAL Rally champions, Kris Meeke and co-driver Paul Nagle, bid farewell to the Peugeot UK team at this weekend’s Rally of Scotland.

DEREK McGARRITY could be forgiven for having a sense of déjà vu this weekend as he goes from one circuit to another.

A Fianna Fáil TD says the National Assets Management Agency (Nama) should shut down any properties under its control which are housing headshops.

A EUROPEAN anti-drugs campaigner has accused the Government of falsely blaming EU laws for the delay in banning head shop drugs such as mephedrone.

Two 15-year-old boys have been released from hospital in Sligo after they were admitted following a drugs party last night.

A man in his 60s has died in an industrial accident at a quarry in Westmeath today.

DURING the summer, the discovery of what some people believed was a sacred tree, in a church grounds in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, led to sensational headlines that set off a religious frenzy.

SORT of at the vanguard of a shift in thinking about building and the environment in its day, is this Richmond Wood home in Cork’s Glanmire.

GARDAÍ have questioned four people after a man in his 30s was hit in the head with a hammer during a row in a Cork suburb.

TIGHT security surrounded the removal of the mother of Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Cork last night.

HEARTBROKEN actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers jetted in to Cork with his father John O’Keeffe yesterday to attend his mother’s funeral.

“The GAA President’s Awards are about rewarding the volunteer. It’s about recognising the voluntary efforts of GAA members who seek nothing in return, work that has been going on for over one hundred years.” - GAA president Sean Kelly.

ABOUT 150 jobs are to be axed over the next year with the closure of two manufacturing plants in the north-west.

GARDAÍ believe they know some of the route travelled by a young woman who was abducted by a man on Monday in Co Cork.

ONE of the Irishmen named as an owner of the ship packed with explosives that was seized by Greek special forces has denied he had any involvement with the lethal cargo.

GARDAÍ have asked Cork County Council to erect a crash barrier alongside an estuary to prevent further tragedies, following an accident earlier this month which claimed the life of a mother and daughter.