Willie Duggan has been on the Mitchelstown CBS staff since 1982 and, with over 30 years of service in the classroom and in promoting GAA amongst the school’s small student populace, today marks CBS’s biggest day in sport– its inaugural appearance in an All Ireland colleges final.

A taxi driver claimed junior minister Dara Murphy declined a taxi ride because of the cost of the fare on the night that the Fine Gael TD had two on-duty gardaí drive him from Mitchelstown, Co Cork, to Dublin Airport.

Four armed and masked men broke into a house and terrorised the three occupants, including a mentally disabled woman.

More than 600children from Cork and Limerick are taking part in one of the biggest single road safety campaigns ever undertaken.

Dan MacCarthy meets a couple who have added to their farm income by embracing agri-tourism

A row has broken out between the National Roads Authority, a prominent businessman and a county councillor over why it has taken five months to repair a section of motorway on the Cork/Limerick border.

A MONUMENT unveiled yesterday in honour of a brave young Irish soldier, who has been missing in action for 50 years, will help ensure his memory and sacrifice endures, his family said.

Three people have been killed in two separate road crashes in Co Cork.

A 18-YEAR-OLD girl died and six other teenagers were injured after the car in which they were travelling crashed into a ditch in Co Cork yesterday evening.

THERE’S a huge emphasis on the coastal areas of the country for holiday and retreat homes, and the interior heartland is sometimes ignored.

The latest stretch of the Dublin-Cork motorway has been opened.

THEY’RE in neighbouring counties, but the best and worst of the Tidy Towns entrants are poles apart when it comes to impressing the judges.

WORK has begun on a €70 million dual carriageway which will cut the journey time between Cork and Dublin by at least 10 minutes.

I AM delighted the number of deaths on Irish roads is significantly down on the same period for last year. However, although this is welcome news, I fear this trend is unlikely to continue.

A CONTRACT has been awarded for the construction of a €70 million motorway in Co Cork, which could be open to traffic within two years.

FIGURES released by gardaí yesterday show that the highest number of motorists’ deaths occurring in Cork, Kerry and Limerick are on main roads, reinforcing the view that public criticism of excessive speed traps on these arteries is unwarranted.

AN Bord Pleanála is to hold two oral hearings next week on major projects which are planned for Co Cork.

A 29-YEAR-OLD man became the 102nd person to be killed on the roads this year when his motorcycle was involved in a crash with a lorry.