A 27-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with the murder of a father of four in a row in a pub in Mitchelstown earlier this weekend.

The only evidence given by a motorist on trial yesterday for careless driving causing the death of an elderly man was to say to the family of the deceased: “I am sorry for your loss.”

Carol O’Callaghan reviews the life and internationally renowned work of Irish-American architect, Kevin Roche

Staff at Ornua's Kerrygold Park production plant in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, played a key role in the company becoming the first recipient of Leading Edge's new International Continuous Improvement Excellence Award.

Most of Ireland’s big music events have unveiled their lineups. Ed Power rounds up his top 10.

The organisers of a 10,000 capacity music festival expect it to sell out well in advance after announcing a raft of artists will appear alongside Manic Street Preachers, The Coronas and Sigma.

Sandra Mahon didn’t set out to make history in her job as a food demonstrator, but she did just that in relation to employment law.

THE death of William Trevor, one of the very greatest modern writers in English, leaves our world a poorer place.

Tributes have been paid to the late novelist William Trevor, who has passed away at the age of 88.

Some of the action from the annual dHillbillies mud run in aid of the Mercy Cancer appeal which took place in Mitchelstown, Co Cork. 

Pioneering technology developed at the Teagasc food research centre in Moorepark, Co Cork, is underpinning a new €20m cheese manufacturing facility for Ornua in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The 18-year-old cyclist killed in a collision in West Cork on Tuesday evening has been named locally as Stefan Cooper.

Three little pigs tucked into a pile of grain dumped by protesting farmers outside the EU Commission’s offices in Dublin yesterday.

If you’d asked me about The Vamps two weeks ago, I would have furrowed my brow, pursed my lips and eventually asked, ‘Aren’t they kind of like One Direction?

A seven-month suspended prison sentence and fines of €3,500 were imposed yesterday on former Minister of State Ned O’Keeffe for what the sentencing judge described as breaches of trust by a TD submitting false invoices to claim over €3,700 in mobile phone expenses.

Dairygold’s €117m investment in its Mallow and Mitchelstown sites will give the north Cork co-op the processing capacity it needs for next year’s abolition of EU milk quota restrictions, said the company’s chief executive, Jim Woulfe.

Gardaí arrested a number of members of a pickpocketing gang who stole smartphones worth thousands of euro from festival-goers.

A GP service that offered unlimited doctor visitors for up to 10 years for an upfront fee has said it will reimburse patients left out of pocket following its closure.

A teenager who used his karate skills to fight off a bull which gored his father and flipped him in the air like a rag doll and another boy who saved a mother and child from drowning have received outstanding bravery awards from the gardaí.

More than €25m of property was sold at the latest large-scale public auction held by Allsop Space in Dublin yesterday. A total of 131 lots out of more than 180 properties for sale went under the hammer for a combined total of €25.61m.

Running outdoor festivals in Ireland can cause a grown man to shed a tear.

Irish indie favourites Bell X1 join De La Soul and Bastille as headliners at the Indiependence festival in Mitchelstown, Co Cork next August Bank Holiday Weekend.

Dairygold shareholders have endorsed the co-op’s post-2015 €150m expansion plan, following two back-to-back meetings yesterday at its premises in Mallow, Co Cork.

Food giant Dairygold has dropped a controversial penalty clause from its new milk supply contract.

The forecast is not looking good for dairy farmer John Mullins, who has had to start using feed from his winter stores for his cattle following the recent spell of bad weather.

A section of motorway was closed for a number of hours yesterday after a man was killed when he was hit by a truck.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has rejected claims by Éamon Ó Cuív that Sinn Féin would be their preferred choice as coalition partners in any future government.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Ned O’Keeffe was released without charge after being questioned by gardaí over suspected fraud offences.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Ned O’Keeffe has been arrested today in connection with suspected fraud offences.

A major music festival planned for Mitchelstown, Co Cork, in August is expected to swell the town’s coffers by up to €1.5m.

A sense of isolation was felt keenly by the Irish diaspora in the USA in the late 1800s whose sole means of communication was the letter home. Dan Buckley dips in to some of them

THE Government should move future budgets to February to promote consumer confidence prior to Christmas, the most valuable retail window of the year, says one prominent business owner.

ATTENDING the family doctor will be free from 2015, according to the minister with responsibility for primary care.

As a festival of Irish craft brewing begins, Joe McNamee clinks glasses and compares tasting notes with Ireland’s new breed of quality micro-brewers.

FINDING new methods of reducing the high costs of bottled water in hotels and restaurants gave Dermot O’Brien a new business he readily admits is increasing every month since he started.

AN Irish aid worker has played a leading role in freeing almost 2,000 girls kept in bonded labour, a form of slavery still widely practiced in parts of Nepal.