The former tax office in Cork city centre is to be demolished within weeks, after it was the scene of two fires in two days.

Gardaí are hunting for three suspected arsonists after fire gutted a derelict listed former asylum in Cork city.

Latest: One of the best known buildings in Cork city - the former Our Lady's Hospital - is engulfed in flames tonight.

A man who was brutally attacked in Dublin’s Temple Bar area on Thursday night has died.

Tom Mohan has told his Republic of Ireland Under-17s to simply go and compete at next week’s UEFA championship finals in Bulgaria.

There are football followers, and then there are football fans: Tralee man Bernard Lynch is such a supporter of Kerry. He has decorated his house in the Green and Gold, got a banner specially made and staked €100 on a win.

Senator Jimmy Harte is seriously ill after been discovered on a city street with head injuries in the early hours of the morning.

Kildare County Board president Seamus Aldridge has criticised the handling of Seanie Johnston’s stalled transfer to the county.

YOUR lead story headline on October 8 read: 'Gormley: unite all parties to save economy'.

HAS anybody else noticed how this Government has furtively (as usual) managed to persuade a few menials to start suggesting that we the people are the real reason for the recession because we were too greedy.

WE know now that tooth decay is more widespread and more severe among Irish children than their British counterparts.

I RECEIVED a brochure from the ESB about having to use long-life bulbs.

HAVING reassured myself that An Bord Snip was not a new area of health to do with circumcision in our new multicultural society, I still found it very strange that Taoiseach Brian Cowen, previously the country’s finance minister, would actually admit to forming it.

FOR Taoiseach Brian Cowen to defend his record as finance minister to the IMF is equivalent to the Catholic Church defending its record on child abuse or George W Bush defending his record on world peace.

BY chance, I found George Orwell’s 1984 in a second-hand shop a while ago.

HAS anybody else noticed that you can’t turn on the radio any more without having to listen to some silly competition or other.

I HAVE written before that the only people as irretrievably corrupt as politicians are scientists and have thus been most sceptical about the current global warming PR blitz.

I READ recently that a man was jailed for theft.

A teenage suspected heroin dealer who told a Garda that he had “all the judges in the Children’s Court wrapped around his little finger”, was remanded in custody today.

PERHAPS if we could shut down all the hot air that is being spoken about global warming, the problem might go away.

WHAT are the Government’s real priorities? Almost every department is in complete disarray — health, transport and the environment are worst.

Two men have been arrested while allegedly trying to break into the headquarters of the Garda Dublin Metropolitan Division last night.

A man who was being questioned in relation to the murder of champion kickboxer James Curran has been released without charge, it emerged today.

THE Government has admitted it will have to pay about €250 million as a fine for exceeding agreed pollution limits.

I DON’T understand why anybody should be surprised at Dublin being much more expensive than anywhere else in Ireland.

EVERY day we read about poor Mary Harney (not an FF person) confronted with a nationwide hospital A&E crisis (which she is certainly not capable of solving before the next election, if ever) while goody-two-shoes Martin (the FF person who created the mess) has been quietly moved on before the dirty bandages hit the fan.