Rail services on the Cork-Dublin line were cancelled for nearly three hours yesterday after a man died after being struck by a high-speed train.

A 25-year-old man has been jailed for eight years for carrying out an armed robbery on a businessman and his family at their home in Co Limerick.

BACK during the Cold War period, senior members of the Swiss government bought a west Cork bolt-hole at Liss Ard, near Tragumna.

PLANS for one of the country’s longest and most expensive motorways linking Cork and Limerick will be lodged with An Bord Pleanála today.

Rose Martin enjoys the superb surroundings of Glencoagh in west Cork.

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE buyers willing to spend anything up to €10 million have put demand for large country estates in Ireland at an all-time high.

THE West Cork property market is working its wonders again, with reports of several sporting and television celebrities on the viewing trail and even on the brink of purchases.