Featured on these pages on August 9, a 75-acre residential farm in the townland of Thurlesbeg near Cashel was auctioned last Thursday at the Horse-and-Jockey Hotel.

It is three years since broadcaster John Creedon took to the byways in a camper van to explore the Wild Atlantic Way.

Five men have been arrested after a spate of car break-ins and separate burglary incidents across Cork.

A 44-year-old man has been killed in a crash in Tipperary.

A prominent independent retailer in Co Cork is to close down after nearly six decades of business, citing “impossible” competition from online and chain retailers as being behind his decision to ceasing trading.

Gardaí have seized around €230,000 worth of drugs and made five arrests in three counties.

The floral tributes spelled out the words “friend” and “mam”.

The young woman who died when the car she was in was hit by a truck on the M8 motorway yesterday had just taken a call giving her good news about her newborn baby.

When you see the name of Glanmire, Co Cork, in print, it’s normally associated with words such as “bypass”, “residential” or “commercial”.

There’s room for families to spread out in the detached homes at Cork’s Chestnut Meadows, a scheme facing around a green, above Glyntown in the Glanmire area.

Questions remain over what happened the night European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy had two gardaí bring him, his wife, and driver from rural Cork to Dublin Airport after his car broke down.

Gardaí are advising people to arrive in the village of Castlelyons, Co Cork, before 1pm on Friday if they want to attend Thomas Kent’s State funeral.

Just how much more family home you get for you money if you go outside of Irish cities is shown by this spotless-order family home, called Denell Lodge near Kilworth.

The major extension proposed for the Bon Secours Hospital, in Cork City, has been approved by An Bord Pleanála.

With the M8 motorway just a kilometre away, access could hardly be better for a 19-acre holding in the townland of Mondaniel near Fermoy. Added to that is extensive road frontage along its western boundary and a mains water supply.

New plans have been lodged for a motorway service area off the M8 motorway near Fermoy in north Cork.

A section of the M8 motorway will be closed next month to enhance drainage works amid concern that climate change could make the main Cork-Dublin road unsafe.

It really upsets me when I drive on the M8 motorway and see the sign ancestral home of Barack Obama and all the hype and publicity it gets — even our Taoiseach dropped in on July 4 to visit a new complex which opened up recently, and yet here we are a year later and no mention of Hacketstown, Co Carlow, birth place of William Presley great, great, great grandfather to the King of Rock ‘n Roll.

The message is clear: Keep on trucking.

A new guide to Dublin and Wicklow will be a failsafe companion for walkers everywhere, says Dan MacCarthy.

A woman in her 40s has died after she lost control of her car and it left the road in Offaly.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a single car collision in Co. Tipperary yesterday, which claimed the life of a man in his 60's.

The National Roads Authority has been accused of being ‘party poopers’ for removing flags and banners from motorways erected by Banner supporters as they prepare to move en-masse to Dublin for tomorrow’s All-Ireland replay.

An application for planning permission has been lodged for the first 24-hour motorway service station in Co Cork, which if approved will lead up to 100 full-time jobs being created.

WITH Cork to Dublin flights axed, there are only three ways to make it between the two cities in a reasonable time — by car, bus or rail. We decided to put the options to the test and last week, three intrepid journalists headed off from Parnell Place bus station and Kent Train Station in Cork, all with one objective: to get to the Spire on Dublin’s O’Connell Street as quickly as possible...

A row has broken out between the National Roads Authority, a prominent businessman and a county councillor over why it has taken five months to repair a section of motorway on the Cork/Limerick border.

An Bord Pleanála has given the go-ahead for a massive casino development in Co Tipperary.

The planning board has given the green light to part of a major proposed development for County Tipperary.

IT isn’t often that Taoiseach Brian Cowen gets to give out some good news but today he will announce the opening of the final link in the completion of the M8 motorway between Dublin and Cork.

TODAY John Quane will nudge his car onto the M8 motorway near Kilbeheny and begin a 208km trek from the south-east corner of Limerick.

IRELAND could have a new state-of-the-art racecourse by the spring of 2013.

A replica of the White House will form the centrepiece of a €460m Las Vegas-style village deep in the Tipperary countryside, it was announced today.

Scotland fly-half Dan Parks is under investigation after being arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, it was revealed today.