A woman granted temporary release from a prison sentence for shoplifting was caught stealing more than €360 worth of clothing from a store in Cork.

A GAA club has come to the assistance of a soccer club in Cork whose pitch was badly vandalised when a car crashed through locked gates and was driven around the pitch and ultimately set on fire.

A heroin dealer who was jailed this month for a stash concealed in a teddy bear got another sentence for a drug driving crime yesterday .

Construction work on the first phase of a decade-long housing regeneration project on Cork’s northside is poised to begin.

The vast majority of services around the country are operating as normal with some delays, Bus Éireann has reported this morning.