THEY were told after the 1996 disaster that it would never happen again.

A DUTCH-to-Dutch deal to develop the historic Beamish and Crawford site in Cork city has just been confirmed – as work is set to start next week on removing the massive steel tanks at the South Main Street brewery.

“SAM is coming home,” that was the triumphant chant around Kerry, last night, as preparations were being made to welcome home the victorious All-Ireland football champions.

IT IS some carry-out.

Heineken today announced the impending closure of its Beamish & Crawford brewery in Cork in March 2009 with the loss of around 120 jobs.

A WET shelter for homeless street drinkers is set to fully open in Cork within weeks.

A MAN who was on a stolen motorbike when it crashed, killing another passenger, will face criminal charges.

A MAN who ruptured his achilles tendon during a game died after it triggered a chain of tragic events.

AN inquest into the death of a man who was stabbed in Cork last summer was opened and adjourned yesterday because two men have been charged with his murder.

THE man who died in a crash on a stolen motorcycle in Cork city on Monday night was previously caught stealing a car on the same street.

BUILDERS donated €500,000 to Cork’s Simon community yesterday - the single biggest donation the organisation has received in its 30-year history.

A SENIOR garda called last night for the urgent establishment of a 'wet shelter' in Cork following the tragic death of a young mother in a doorway on the city's main street yesterday.

THE Gateway Project proposes to demolish a derelict building at No 34 Leitrim Street in Cork and to construct a new hostel on the site.

Eoin English

UP to 80,000 people are expected to go on the streets of Cork today as the city officially celebrates its designation as European Capital of Culture.

CORK city’s infamous riverbanks will be the central focus of the largest outdoor event ever to be staged here when the city is officially unveiled as the 2005 European Capital of Culture on Saturday night.

A witness has told a Central Criminal Court jury that gardaí showed him a photograph of a man two months before he made an identification at a formal parade in a Cork garda station.

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 12-years for robbery for breaking into a 46-year old woman's flat in Cork city centre before she was murdererd.

A 20-year-old Cork man has been acquitted of the murder of a 46-year-old woman during a break in at her flat in Cork city centre.

A 24-year-old Cork man has been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of the murder of a 46-year-old woman during a robbery at her flat in Cork city centre.

A 24-year-old Cork man has been found guilty of the murder of a woman during a robbery at her flat in Cork city in July 2002.

A murder-accused used a large knife “like a hammer and chisel” on his victim’s throat, wrists, stomach and thigh after strangling her with an electric cable and robbing her, it was alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

THE men behind Cork’s latest lapdancing venture were set to go ahead with plans to open for business last night, within 24-hours of garda raids on similar clubs nationwide.

AN anonymous phone call led to the discovery of a body of a 45-year-old woman in a flat in Cork, gardaí said yesterday.

Gardai in Cork are investigating the circumstances surrounding the suspicious death of a woman in the north of the city overnight.

A "gulf between reality and unreality" has been opened during the trial of a homeless man accused of murder, a defence counsel told a jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A witness told a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court today that a man accused of murdering another man in a derelict house in Cork in 1997 admitted he had "finished him off".