A mother-of-two who had to take a cheese grater to bed to relieve a non-stop itch caused by her chronic liver disease is celebrating after having a successful liver transplant over Christmas.

A former Senator appeared in court today charged with a number of offences including drink driving and dangerous driving as a music festival was taking place nearby, writes Joe Leogue.

Farmers can hope to see milk prices improve in early 2017, by which time Ireland will have increased dairy sales into China, Africa, and the Middle East, says Ornua chief executive Kevin Lane.

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Labour ministers have backed their ministerial colleague Dara Murphy but said that his use of a garda car to travel from Cork to Dublin Airport was not an “appropriate use of resources”.

A pig farmer, who admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a pig by failing to treat it after it was found eaten alive on his farm, has had his 18-month jail term reduced to 12 on appeal.

A motorist injured in a head-on collision was awarded €295,000 in an assessment of her injuries at the High Court sitting in Cork yesterday.

A €50m grant scheme has been launched to help dairy farmers expand and modernise their operations — a move which could help position Ireland as the fastest growing dairy producer on the planet over the next decade.

Almost two years ago, I had the privilege of drinking pints with Kodaline outside a packed-to-the-rafters pub in Mitchelstown, Co Cork.

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Discount grocer Aldi is to open a new regional distribution centre creating 160 jobs.

Food and support services company, Compass Group Ireland, has signed a deal with Hodgins Foods in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, to provide sausages and black pudding products to its units countrywide.

USE of advanced traceability systems in the agri-food processing chain has helped underpin Ireland’s global reputation for food excellence, says one expert in this technology field.

With craft beer one of the few success stories to emerge from the recession, the Mitchelstown-based brewers Eight Degrees stand out as the brewmasters. And they’re only just getting started, writes Trish Dromey

A publican who claimed he was defamed by nazi references made by another publican at a vintners’ AGM has lost his case.

Seven neighbouring food companies in north Cork and east Limerick have boosted their business by launching the umbrella brand A Taste of Ballyhoura Country.

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A GARDA spotted a shovel in a car and jokingly asked the driver if it was for burying a body — the driver is now on trial for murder.

Unions and management from the 4Home DIY store in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, are due to attend the Labour Relations Commission today for more talks on the closure of the outlet.

The MANDATE trade union is due to meet management at the 4Home superstore in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, today to discuss the company's decision to close the outlet.

SUPERMARKET chain ALDI said that its sales in Ireland soared by 21% last year as it increased its market share to almost 5%.

Yesterday’s planned industrial action at Breeo Foods in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, was averted after both sides agreed to take the matter to the Labour Relations Commission.

INDUSTRIAL action is looming in a dispute at Breeo Foods in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, following a vote by workers yesterday.

GARDAÍ are keeping an open mind on whether a Brazilian, who was viciously beaten by three men, was the victim of a racially motivated attack.

MORE than 1,000 people marched through Mitchelstown, Co Cork, yesterday in protest at the decision of Dairygold Co-op to end pig slaughtering at its Galtee plant in the town.

Unions representing workers at Dairygold are due to meet the company’s management today to discuss yesterday’s announcement of 270 job losses.

ONLY 46 of the 2,300 employees in State agencies whose jobs are being decentralised have agreed to follow their own jobs down the country.

Five-hundred jobs are to go at the Dairygold food plant in Mitchelstown, Co Cork according to reports tonight.

A CHANGE in the public attitude to food was urged yesterday by celebrity chef Darina Allen.

A teenager who believed he was going to be killed said Hail Marys when he was kidnapped and driven up a mountain road on a foggy night by two men who were both given four-year suspended jail sentences today.

THE family of a 47-year-old man who was killed by a train minutes after he received treatment for a head injury has criticised the hospital over the manner in which he was discharged.

AN investigation has been launched into how two newborn baby boys were given to the wrong mothers by staff at a busy maternity hospital.

Gardai have named the two people who were killed in overnight road accidents.