A teenager who bought tyres on eBay drove into a roadside and overturned his car causing serious injuries to a lifelong friend.

Organisers do not expect weather problems for next Sunday’s Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show, where exhibitors will flock in search of some of the €165,000 on offer for the best livestock, home industries, dogs, inventions, poultry, best dressed lady, glamorous granny — and much more.

It may be small but it’s one of the top nine drama groups in the country — now West Cork’s Kilmeen Drama group is to perform its latest prize-winning play at Cork Opera House.

The silverware flowed their way throughout last year and when the 2011 calendar of games spilled over into last January, the winning run kept going for Kilmeen-Kilbree.

THERE are castles in the air, and then there are castles rooted in the past. Ballincurra House is a small bit of both.

Double All-Ireland senior hurling medal winner Brian Murphy is one of five new appointments as Cork Co Board Games Promotions Officers.

DRAMA groups from Co Cork towns Kilmeen and Charleville are set to compete for All-Ireland honours in a theatre of golden dreams.

THE founder of Britain’s most famous family dynasty of executioners once offered his macabre services in a case in Cork, in 1903.

Four people were killed in three separate road accidents, gardaí said today.

Three people were killed today in two road accidents.

A man in his 20s has died after the car he was driving collided with another vehicle in Loughrea, Co Galway, early this morning.