Another 109 more social housing units are scheduled to be developed in the Cork city centre following a special City Council meeting last night.

Security barriers are to be erected at Scotland's biggest arts festival in the wake of terrorist attacks in London and Manchester.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has revealed that 106 Enforcement Orders were served on food businesses for breaches of food safety legislation in 2016.

“Tis a great little country” a judge remarked after being told a man with over 100 convictions who was found boarding a train in Killarney for Banteer in Co Cork with a new bike he had just stolen from a shop in the Kerry town’s High Street would be able to go back home on the train on a free travel pass.

The pensioner had been missing for 21 hours.

Two for the road at High Street’s Bridge House, says Tommy Barker.

You know how it goes at this stage.

A serious sexual assault in Bangor has led to a manhunt in the North.

A security alert is ongoing after a suspicious object was found in Omagh.

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A location within a short walk to Cork city centre has driven swift interest and bids to 4 Capwell Road, at the start of the Douglas Road near lots of services.

A jury in a fatal hit-and- run trial was yesterday shown more than three hours of CCTV footage tracking a large, grey, vehicle suspected of being involved in the incident.

A jury is due to be shown CCTV footage today tracking a vehicle suspected of being involved in a fatal hit and run, almost three years ago.

Tommy Barker says No 14 Frankfield Villas has three bedrooms, views of hills and sports fields, and scope at the rear for play or gardening.

A manhunt and child rescue alert remains in place after a teenage boy was abducted by two men in broad daylight.

Wayne Ronayne stepped down as the Mayor of Gosport just 40 days after taking office after an unfortunate incident during a night out in June.

A man in his 20s has been arrested after a serious assault in County Galway this weekend.

An investigation is underway after a man was seriously assaulted in county Galway over night.

I was sickened to read of the meeting between the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) and the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (Irish Examiner, March 8). Abusive priests have been shown too much compassion by their victims and the Irish public.

Armed police in Britain were tonight surrounding a snooker hall where a man reported to have a gun is holed up inside.

I fail to see Margaret Hickey’s (Letters, February 18) concern about children being raised by same-sex couples.

Police in the UK are continuing to search for missing teenager Jayden Parkinson who they believe has been murdered.

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The Programme for Government states “we will abolish the position of county manager and replace it with that of chief executive, with a limited range of executive functions.”

There’s a choice for buyers, side by side, in genteel Marble Hall Park, off the very start of the Douglas Road near High Street, Southern Road and a new Tesco Express.

A restaurant directly across the road from the bustling CUH and maternity hospitals in Cork’s western suburbs is up to rent.

A group of around 150 football fans forced a British town’s high street to shut after they tried to confront Italian fans following England’s defeat in the Euro 2012 quarter-final.

Equity investors wishing to cash in on the London Olympics can take their pick from British hotels, advertisers or retailers — history suggests the FTSE 100 could shine in the following 12 months.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in Britain on suspicion of the attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl, police said today.

AN Algerian man arrested in the Swedish terror plot last week was remanded in custody while gardaí seek to establish his true identity.

Two Muslim men have been charged following an international investigation into a suspected plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.

The skull fracture sustained by a retired Cork barman was most likely to have been caused by someone standing on his head, a pathologist told a murder trial today.

A young man went on trial today charged with murdering a retired barman in Cork city in October 2008.

A jury of nine women and three men was sworn in today for the trial of a man charged with murdering a 62-year-old retired barman in October 2009 at High Street in Cork.

I READ with dismay that Cork city centre shops are attempting to open on Boxing Day.

THE boil water notice in Cork city was lifted last night after the quality of water at the Lee Road treatment plant got the all-clear from the HSE.

IN a bid to boost business during the Christmas shopping period, a number of towns in Kerry have reduced or removed parking charges.

GARDAÍ were last night hoping to question a man in connection with the murder of a Brazilian mother in Tullamore, Co Offaly.

A 31-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman in Co. Carlow at the weekend.

Gardaí in Carlow are continuing to question a 31-year-old man in connection with the death of a woman over the weekend.

A POTENTIALLY lethal bug has been discovered in a west Cork town’s water supply, forcing a local authority to tanker in water for up to 800 homes.

Gardaí in Cork investigating a missing person's case are seeking the public's help in tracing a car.

AS President Mary McAleese concluded her Boston trip, spending much of her visit with Irish emigrants and organisations concerned with the cause of the thousands of undocumented Irish there, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan made changes to the work permit system here which will effectively force many immigrants into undocumented situations.