With direct flights from Cork to Malta launching next month, Suzanne Harrington visits the breathtaking island.

A 42-year-old man who groomed a 14-year-old girl over Facebook and texted her to meet him for oral sex was jailed yesterday in what is one of the first cases of its kind before the courts.

WITHIN a couple of hours of my first visit to Edinburgh, it became clear this was a really visitor-friendly city.

The investigation of a spate of burglaries throughout Cork and Kerry where over €90,000 worth of property was stolen led gardaí to the door of a Lithuanian couple where they found some of the stolen property.