Working in Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, Noelle Healy has her good days and bad days. She’s seen things she probably wouldn’t want you to see and after a stint with the Mater’s cardiology team, Healy is now specialising in anaesthesia.

The Menu has long been meaning to make mention of the wonderful little Garden Café, sited in a Victorian glasshouse perched just above the heart of Blackpool, and a wonderful combination of pop-up supper and photo exhibition has given him ample reason to do so. 

A rapper who starred alongside pop star Bressie in an RTÉ reality show, has been given a 12-month 'rap on the knuckles' by a judge.

Residents who blockaded one of Cork city’s largest waste depots plan to ramp up their campaign to get it closed.

IF the neighbours weren’t used to it, they’d demand the destruction of my house. It is one of the ugliest buildings in the neighbourhood. In fact, it wins the prize for being ugly, leaky, and disfunctional.

Councillors have called for staffing changes to bridge a gap in library openings that see all three of Cork’s northside branches close for lunch.

Repairs to the stalled clock mechanism in Cork’s landmark Shandon church are due to get under way within weeks.

The average second-hand home in Dublin now costs €262,000, up 9.5% from this time last year, according to an estate agent's survey.

Mercedes-Benz and three commercial vehicle dealers are to pay fines totalling £2.6m (€2.98m) following an inquiry into market rigging.

Clare Daly is awaiting the results of a blood sample she gave to gardaí after she was stopped for making a wrong turn on a Dublin street on Monday night.

IT’S a wet and miserable night and the wind is whipping around Kinvara in Dublin Hill, Cork, as Sinn Féin general election candidate Jonathan O’Brien and his team of about 10 canvassers trek around the sprawling estate knocking on doors and depositing leaflets.

Gardaí have today renewed their appeal for help in tracing Blathnaid Timothy, who went missing in Dublin ten days ago.

Tributes have been paid to Cork City Fire Service after they managed to extinguish a fire which gutted a building on the Northside of the city, despite the water crisis.

Flood-hit communities were today facing up to the devastation caused by the torrential downpours as homes and businesses were cut off by collapsed or damaged bridges and schools closed.

An urgent safety review of Cumbria’s 1,800 bridges was under way today with emergency services warning one bridge could collapse at any time and 50mph winds forecast.

State-of-the-art Evergreen is a bounty for buyers, says Rose Martin.

A man remains in custody in Limerick following the discovery of drugs and firearms in the city on Friday.

THERE were fears last night for the future of a large employer on Cork’s northside after it announced it will axe about half its workforce.

THE mother of a Dublin woman, beaten to death in Spain two years ago, has spoken of her heartache as she awaits the trial of her daughter’s alleged killer.

IT was hardly the first dawn ram-raid witnessed on the Northside, but it was one of the most surprising.

A CRISIS meeting has been called to tackle antisocial behaviour in Cork city amid fears that inter-family violence in some areas could result in a death.

IT is with regret I learned of the failed legal bids to stop the sale of Waterford Port (Northside) to private developers. Every time public property falls into private hands, something has been stolen from the ordinary people.

INTERNATIONAL athletics star Mark Carroll is to have a road near his family home named after him.

AND they’re off. The first new homes launch of 2005 around Cork city is a batch of just under 100 homes at Ashmount Court, Silversprings.

EDUCATION Minister Noel Dempsey last night vowed to investigate any complaints of “education apartheid” made by Limerick parents after 50 students were refused places in local secondary schools.

GARDAÍ last night released without charge the remaining two of seven people questioned over the weekend in connection with a Cork murder inquiry.