A councillor has described the near €900,000 purchase of a small parcel of land as “an absolute scandal”, as it is now being used to graze farm animals instead of housing a badly needed fire station.

A North Cork doctor has denied he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old patient by fondling her breasts for several minutes when she attended his surgery with a chest cold.

A life will be lost if a second ambulance is not restored to a top tourist area, it has been claimed.

An anti-eviction group protested outside the now monthly Possession and Well Charging Court in Tralee yesterday.

The Fianna Fáil leader has accused the Taoiseach of "washing his hands" of the case of a family facing eviction in Cork.

The first person to introduce John Fitzgerald Kennedy in public as “the next President of the United States” was from Kanturk, Co Cork.

The family of a hit-and-run victim yesterday renewed an emotional plea to the driver of the vehicle involved to come forward.

Peeling away layers of history, a renowned conservation engineer has restored an old world gem to its original splendour, reports Laurie O’Flynn

THIS is the face that will haunt a woman who was repeatedly raped in a 40-minute ordeal.

A man has appeared in court charged with raping a woman in a public toilet in Kanturk, Co Cork.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a one of the first Volkswagen dealers in the country who raced his “beloved Beetle” in many rallies before finally changing his dealership allegiance to Toyota.

FORMER workers at Irish Sugar in Mallow yesterday called on Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan not to pay Greencore its share of the European Union sugar industry restructuring fund.