An 18-year-old youth with cerebral palsy who had sued for alleged negligence in relation to the circumstances of his birth in a Cork hospital was yesterday granted a further €475,000 towards his care.

Two people have been taken to hospital in Dublin after a fire at a house on the North Circular Road.

Gardai in Dublin are hunting two men who stole a cash box from a cash in transit van this morning.

Thousands of homes and businesses in north Dublin will be hit with a water shortage today, with some losing their supply completely.

Rose Martin says if you happen to be shopping for an utterly, idiosyncratic house in the city, then lift the knocker

The heartbroken mother of a 31-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in Cork City broke down in tears at his Requiem Mass and said she would “love and miss him forever”.

Gardaí in Cork have launched a murder investigation after a 31-year-old man stabbed in the city on Friday lost his fight for life.

The stabbing of a 31-year-old man in Cork on Friday is now being treated as murder after the victim died in hospital last night.

A man has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of Mark Hanlon in Cork city.

A 35-year-old man is recovering in hospital following a stabbing incident in Cork this morning.

Gardaí have arrested a number of people in Cork and Mayo following a violent bank holiday weekend which saw two men stabbed in unrelated incidents in Cork and a man shot dead in Mayo.

People on their way home from a night out could hold vital clues to gardaí investigating the murder of a 31-year-old man in a row that spilled into a Cork City street in the early hours of yesterday.

Gardaí have launched a murder investigation in Cork, after a fatal stabbing in the city this morning.

A post mortem is underway on the body of a man who was stabbed to death in Cork this morning.

A man has been stabbed to death during a fight in Cork city in the early hours of this morning.

DOZENS of parking spaces will be removed to make way for the first phase of a new €7 million network of cycle lanes linking Cork city to the suburbs.

THE HSE and the Director of Public Prosecutions are working on a new protocol to deal with requests from defendants in rape cases for counselling notes, which retired DPP James Hamilton has described as a “tactic” designed to intimidate alleged victims.

Cork Medical Centre is not the first private hospital in Cork to open its doors only to discover the VHI unwilling to come on board, thus scuppering its future, writes Catherine Shanahan

WITH a clank of the big blue door, he was out.

A MEDICAL negligence action involving a 15-year-old boy with cerebral palsy which may prove to be an important test case in regards to how payments are made to those who will require care for the rest of their lives has been adjourned by the High Court.

A 15-year-boy who suffered "catastrophic injuries" at birth has been awarded €1.6m as part settlement of his High Court medical negligence action against a Cork Hospital and a Consultant Obstetrician.

The Courts Service have issued an apology after a jury was discharged in a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court partly because a wheelchair using juror was unable to gain access to jury boxes in The Four Courts building.

A young man accused of manslaughter has said he wished to "turn back the clock" on the night he allegedly hit a middle-aged Sligo native, who died in a coma six weeks later .

NUMBER 3 Newenham Terrace is in the same state as it was when built, in the 19th century.

A Dublin teenager who made a suicide pact with his co-accused has been given a four years suspended jail sentence for a drink and drugs-fuelled assault which left another teenager with permanent facial scars.

THIS Victorian townhouse sold in the height of the boom for a sum in the mid-70s, but it took over a year to bring to contract and then the buyer backed out.

Part of Dublin city has been sealed off this afternoon following a major fire at a building site near the Phoenix Park.

WORK on a €120m landmark criminal court complex in Dublin, capable of handling over 200,000 criminal cases each year, is scheduled to begin next week, and is due for completion in 2010.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist fell from her bike yesterday afternoon, and sustained serious head injuries.

AN AUSTRALIAN company is set to build the €100 million supercourt in Dublin, it emerged yesterday.

An Australian company is set to build the new €100m supercourt in Dublin, it emerged today.

The first affordable housing initiative project in Dublin city is being launched by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, today.

ADDITIONAL State- owned land around the country is to be made available for affordable housing, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern confirmed yesterday.