Ireland’s largest free summer show rolls into Cork this weekend with a lizardman, contortionists, magicians and some of the world’s top street performers set to enthrall thousands of visitors.

A record number of swimmers are set to take the plunge in the River Lee this weekend to help fund the development of a new service centre and treatment pool for children with physical disabilities.

A Polish national who was selling stolen cars as a member of an organised criminal gang has been jailed for four years by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A SERIOUSLY-ill man who walked out of a hospital with a chest tube sticking out of his abdomen was found dead in a river a few hours later, an inquest heard yesterday.