Gardaí have sealed off a road on the northside of Cork city following the discovery of a suspect device.

A 31-year-old man is due to appear in court this morning after a robbery at a filling station in Dublin yesterday evening.

A man has been arrested following a robbery in Dublin.

Gardaí in Cork are appealing for information about a hit and run involving a small girl over the weekend.

A 20-year-old woman is recovering in hospital after she was shot with a high-powered airpistol following a row on the northside of Cork City.

A woman in her 20s is recovering after being shot in the leg during an altercation on the Kilmore Road in Knocknaheeny, Cork yesterday evening.

RELATIVES of the victims of the Stardust tragedy have expressed surprise that a supermarket group has applied to build an outlet on the site of the 1981 inferno, in which 48 people died.

SECONDARY school student Melissa O’Sullivan-Buckley is enjoying her mid-term break in more ways than one.

DETAILED evidence was given in a trial yesterday of what was seen in the seconds before two cars crashed, resulting in the deaths of two teenagers.

A former Brinks Allied security worker who admitted his involvement in an €1.8m cash-in-transit theft has been given an eight year sentence by Judge Martin Nolan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dublin man has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court accused of transporting €6.4m worth of heroin.

A North Dublin drug addict has been found guilty of attempting to murder another addict over €200 despite jury and witness intimidation.

A man who defrauded 12 potential tenants of almost €30,000 in a South Dublin apartment scam has today been given a three-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

IT’S hard not to despair. Plumes of choking bonfire smoke waft across council estates. Scorched black patches have consumed the green parks where children once played.

A 24-year old man has been charged with murdering a retired barman found dead in his Cork home last October.

A large number of fire-fighters are battling a major blaze at a business premises in north Dublin this morning.

THE 35-year-old victim of a shooting in Cork city may have to be transferred to the National Rehabilitation Centre in Dún Laoghaire amid concerns about a bullet that is lodged close to his spine.

GARDAÍ are seeking the driver of a dark-coloured Volkswagen Golf who was seen close to where a getaway car was burnt out by a would-be assassin.

Gardaí in Cork are investigating a shooting incident in the city in the early hours of this morning.

CAN anybody do something about cars parked illegally in the bus lanes?

Victims and relatives of those who were killed in the Stardust disaster are gathering on Dublin's northside for a special memorial mass today.

JOYRIDING is on the increase in Cork, claimed senior gardaí after a teenager was killed when the stolen car he was driving ploughed into a wall.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information about the theft of almost €2.5m from a security van in Dublin last week.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell last night warned he would revoke the licenses of security companies unless proper procedures were implemented immediately.

Two slash hooks, a bolt-cutter, a saw, a golf club, a hurley, a wheelbrace and several other weapons were seized by gardaí during the eruption of violence today in an 18-month-old family feud in Cork.

A taximan has been fined €2000 and disqualified from driving for two years for his attack on a young man who spat at his car and which left the victim in need of a life support machine for six weeks.

SURVIVORS of the 1981 Stardust fire disaster say they have new evidence which suggests it may have been caused by an electrical fault.

Gardai in Artane in north Co Dublin have launched an investigation following an armed abduction overnight.

An armed man abducted the driver of a vehicle at a petrol station on Kilmore Road in Artane in north east Co Dublin last night.

TWO armed men wearing motorcycle helmets smashed the window of a jeep and at gunpoint forced it's owner to hand over more than €20,000 in Cork city yesterday afternoon.