Gardaí in Ennis are investigating the discovery of a woman’s body in the town early today.

A Limerick councillor has called for extra Garda resources after three youths, including a 14-year-old boy, received stab wounds in a series of violent incidents in Corbally, last Friday night.

Gardaí are investigating after three young males, including a 14-year old boy, received stab wounds in series of attacks overnight in Limerick.

Just over half a million euro worth of cannabis herb was found in a car that was stopped on the Mill Road on Wednesday evening and in follow-up searches.

A 64-year-old man has been found murdered in his home, police have said.

An urgent call for O negative blood donors has been made by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service after supplies dwindled to just four days because of the loss of a full day’s collection due to Storm Ophelia.

Cities around the country are screaming out for housing stock. The knock-on effect is skyrocketing prices, leading to claims that it will soon be beyond the average family to afford to live in any of our cities. In fact this could well already be the case in some sectors.

A local authority has expressed a “strategic interest” in acquiring a vacant HSE-owned hospital.

This is an elegant yet compact West Cork bolt-hole.

The operators of the 3Arena are among appellants in relation to recent permission for increased audience capacity for concerts at the Citywest centre in south Dublin.

Lands on the Cork side of growth town Midleton, which are part of a larger landbank zoned for strategic future housing needs, are being sold at €25,000 an acre. 

Occasionally, when it seems that things are going not too bad, I like to try and imagine Ireland being invaded, says Colm O’Regan.

An office scheme of two inter-linked blocks, totalling 33,000 sq ft on 3.5 acres, has come for sale in the North Cork town of Fermoy.

Tommy Barker reports on quay deals for future dock developments.

An east Cork author and historian has delved into the world of children’s stories with a first collection based on local history and folklore.

The most expensive flood prevention works ever carried out in Co Cork are all but complete and it’s hoped they will bring an end to years of misery and help to rejuvenate a town’s economy.

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A man in his 20s is being questioned by gardaí in Co Louth in connection with a stabbing incident in Dundalk last night.

A man has been arrested after a stabbing in Co Louth last night.

After viewing Watchdog on BBC 1 on Wednesday night where they related the ill-effects of methylisothiazolinone (MI), I realised by inspecting a number of items in our home that its use is widespread and a danger to many people.

An outspoken town councillor and leading suicide prevention campaigner spoke last night of his shame after his arrest on suspicion of drink driving.

A seven-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after being pulled from a river in Co Cork this evening.

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A police officer has been injured after a device was thrown at him and a number of colleagues in Newtownabbey.

Commuters on the M9 in Kildare will today face delays as gardaí and council staff work to clear any remaining snow.

THE Government has approved a raft of new flood defence measures for Ennis, but fears remained yesterday that the proposals are too late for Clare’s county town if more flooding occurs.

WELL, the word ‘cottage’ in the name is definitely a misnomer – Corbally Cottage is a big property offering, where you can draw a boat up to your garden boundary.

BUILT between the ninth and tenth holes of East Cork Golf Club in the 1980s, the Midleton home Ashleigh Villa is more than the sum of its parts – it just gels.

AS flood clean-ups got under way throughout Cork yesterday the ice returned, creating treacherous driving conditions which are likely to feature in the coming days as the cold snap once again takes a grip.

PARTS of Cork resembled a war zone last night as communities piled up thousands of sandbags in an effort to hold back the flood waters.

A WEST CORK town was under three feet of water yesterday morning, for the second time in seven weeks.

Limerick City Council Crisis Management Team has been advised by the ESB that they have reduced the level of water release at Parteen Weir again today by a further 6%.

SEVERAL hundred households were without power last night after the ESB was forced to cut off power because of safety concerns.

A six-year-old boy was killed today when his pushbike and a car were in collision.

OVER most of the country outside Dublin there is, in effect, no road transport available for people who do not have a car.

The judge in the trial of three men accused of the murder of a Limerick bouncer has begun charging the jury at the Central Criminal Court sitting at Clover Hill.

A LUCKY Boylesports customer in the Mill Road shop in Midleton, Co Cork, is today €55,904.63 richer after a €20 each way accumulator on four different horses netted him the big windfall.

SUFFICIENT land for about 1,000 further houses in Killarney has been zoned by the local town council — despite strong reservations by the Department of the Environment and the National Roads Authority.

THE Government’s timetable for reopening the Cork-Midleton railway line was called into question again last night when a TD claimed the start-up date would be later than previously announced.

A 16-year-old boy, who has been found guilty of driving a mini-bus that was stolen and later crashed, has been given a two-month sentence, by Judge Hugh O’Donnell at the Dublin Children’s Court.