“We really feel it is time to go cashless. It’s safer for our employees and safer for our business. Hopefully, those who are causing us such hassle will bugger off now.”

Having grown up in the culinary institution that is Ballymaloe, Formula 4 racing driver Lucca Allen might have been pre-destined towards a kitchen apron than the car racing attire he dons nowadays. With no family ties to the world of motor racing, the 16-year-old son of Darina Allen jettisoned football, hockey, and rugby for the allure of the race track.

Local politics in Fermoy has been a game of musical chairs of sorts with representatives not just giving up county council positions for Dáil seats, but also swapping parties since the last local elections.

A woman who was injured when she was a secondary school student travelling as a passenger in a car has been awarded €92,000 by the High Court against the driver.

The winning of the All-Ireland hurling final by Limerick was joyous. But it is likely that the occasion was spoiled by repeated singing of ‘Sean South of Garryowen’, a song associated with IRA violence.

Myrtle Allen, founder of the world renowned Ballymaloe House in Co Cork, will be laid to rest tomorrow following a Quaker ceremony.

An investigation is underway following a serious crash in Clare this morning.

A driver has been put on trial after a woman jogging near her home in Rosscarbery was seriously injured when struck with iron bars that came loose on a passing trailer.

Schools in Cobh are to be asked to allow tourists to use their car parks over the summer months amid fears that the harbourside town will not be able to cater for an expected increase in visitor numbers.

Anthony Nash knows there have been questions and conspiracy theories.

Gardaí are asking for the public's help following a hit-and-run in Cobh, Co. Cork.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Darragh Nugent that occurred at Wheatfield Avenue, Clondalkin last Monday have made a further appeal to the public for information.

A judge yesterday warned two warring sisters that if they breach their sworn undertakings, he will pack them off in a windowless white wagon “and ye can scream at each other to your little hearts’ content”.

This ‘Home of the Year’ contender in West Cork is in ship-shape for a lively buyer, writes Tommy Barker.

The 16-year-old girl who died in a car crash in Co Waterford was a back-seat passenger.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

With five bedrooms and more than 1,300 sq ft of space, No 3 Beechwood Avenue in Cobh is quite a bit larger than the average starter home.

A man was airlifted to hospital after a consignment of timber fell on him while he was making a delivery in Co Galway yesterday. 

Martin D Stern (Letters, January 6) wrongly suggests that in my letter on January 13 I was trying to imply Israel was ultimately responsible for recent Saudi executions.

Outgoing Waterford secretary Timmy O’Keeffe claims that the county board will be debt free within two years in his report to annual convention.

Amid speculation surrounding the future prospects of Irish drivers Kris Meeke and Craig Breen, both will start out today’s Rally GB, the final round of the World Rally Championship, with the ambition of achieving impressive results.

A Limerick asset management opportunity guiding €2.1/2.3 million, as well as 11 Waterford apartments for €560/600,000, are among the stronger Munster commercial offers in next month’s combined Allsop auction.

A man in his 40s who groomed a teenager on Facebook and via text message for oral sex was jailed for four years yesterday.

Newtownshandrum 0-29 Sarsfields 0-27 (AET): Newtownshandrum rolled back the years in Fitzgerald Park, Fermoy yesterday, sending favourites and current champions Sarsfields down the route of the losers’ rounds of the Cork SHC after this epic extra-time first round victory.

Gardaí are investigating the theft of three vehicles in Co Louth this morning.

Gunman Adam Lanza’s parents and the education system worsened his social isolation in the years before he carried out the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, according to a report.

A bomb threat led to the evacuation of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

The Events uses a different Cork choir each night in the manner of a Greek-style chorus reacting to events, writes Colette Sheridan.

A controversial US group selling a "miracle" cure for serious conditions, despite the fact the product is industrial-strength bleach, is planning to return to Ireland this autumn.

One man believes that Donegal will lift Sam Maguire again this year, and he’s even written it in stone.

Bombing victim Erika Brannock is going back to where she was standing for last year’s Boston Marathon, so that she can move on, writes Abigail Jones.

A judge has pleaded ignorance to the existence of the multibillion-euro green ogre Shrek after hearing that a taunt related to the character sparked a pub row between extended family members.

In his first public comments about the 2012 Connecticut school massacre, the father of gunman Adam Lanza said what his son did couldn’t “get any more evil” and he now wishes his son had never been born.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see the wood from the trees, to stand back far enough to see where and why a problem exists.

Wicklow 1-21 DIT 3-13

Seattle girl escapes serious injury when glasses deflect bullet

It’s a year to the day since Kaitlin Roig barricaded herself and 15 first-graders in a bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hiding from a gunman who would go on to kill 26 in an 11-minute rampage.

A YEAR on, dolls fill the shelves of a living room and flowers and rainbows decorate a kitchen window next to a little girl’s name: Avielle.

Recordings of emergency calls made during the Connecticut primary school massacre reveal terrified callers being urged to take cover amid gunshots in the background.

A boy opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun at his Nevada school yesterday, killing a maths teacher who was trying to protect pupils and wounding two 12-year-old classmates, before turning the weapon on himself.

US lawmaker John Morse explains how he lost his job fighting for gun control — and why he’d do it again.