The remainder of the Rathkeale Rovers criminal gang at the heart of a €70m conspiracy to “plunder” British museums of rhino horn and other priceless Chinese artifacts have been jailed for up to six and a half years.

Members of an organised crime gang have been jailed for up to six years and eight months, after plotting to steal up to £57m in rhino horn and Chinese artefacts in a series of museum raids.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a woman struck by a car in Cork died in hospital.

Unassuming from the outside, but pristine and stylish on the inside. Tommy Barker reports

LATE-NIGHT revellers are being offered transport home to several satellite towns in Cork in a new initiative.

PLANS for a “local retail centre” in Cork’s western suburbs have been shot down after councillors voted unanimously againstrezoning.

A LATE night bus service will operate across Cork city this bank holiday as the city gears up for a recession-proof jazz festival which is expected to generate an estimated €6 million for the local economy.

BACK in 2008, a four-bed semi on the Melbourne Road in Cork city went on the market at €525,000 and now, two years later, a large detached house in the same general location hits the market with a guide price of €585,000.

Land could be secured for Ireland’s first ever science park in Cork by early next year.

HOUSE sales on Cork’s Melbourne Road are few and far between, so a new offering through James G Coughlan and Associates should draw some interest.