Gardaí are searching for a lone robber who held up bank staff at knifepoint in Cork yesterday morning before a security capsule exploded, covering him in ink.

Two burglars in a stolen van careered through the streets of Cork without any regard for the safety of other motorists as they tried to escape pursuing gardaí.

Two men are in custody after a high speed chase in which a garda was knocked off his motorcycle in Cork.

Gardaí will today interview the alleged teenage driver of car involved in a potentially dangerous ‘stunt’ condemned by hundreds of people after pictures of the incident appeared on social media.

The National Transport Authority has proposed an additional three buses for the Glen in Cork City and has given a commitment to look at future services.

The new lord mayor of Cork ignored a large vocal protest last night and vowed to review city centre parking policy and advance plans for a new food emporium for the city.

MYSTERY surrounds the intended target for a pipebomb which was discovered on a busy road in Cork.

A MAJOR dealer, active in a multi-million euro drugs enterprise in Cork city for more than 20 years, has been jailed for 12 years, with the last five years of the sentence suspended.

A major drug dealer who has been active in a multi-million euro drugs enterprise in Cork city for over twenty years was jailed today for twelve years with the last five years of that sentence suspended today.

A DRUG dealer’s claim that ecstasy tablets were being sold for €2 or less was rejected by a jury which returned a unanimous guilty verdict after more than an hour of deliberation.

A LITTLE girl died of massive head injuries after her bicycle careered down a Cork city hill and smashed into a wall at up to 80km an hour, an inquest heard yesterday.

A WOMAN arrested at Dublin Airport over the weekend was discovered to be carrying a kilogram of cocaine inside her body.

Gardaí in Cork have arrested a man in his fifties after recovering €50,000 worth of ecstasy on the outskirts of the city.

A 10-YEAR-OLD girl from Co Kildare is fighting for her life in Cork University Hospital after she lost control of her bicycle and collided with a wall.

A PERFECT country cottage in a perfect country setting: that’s Rosario on Cork’s Old Mallow Road where even the name harks back to another era.

The leader of the Real IRA in Munster was jailed for five years and nine months, his second in command was jailed for four years and three other members of a Real IRA active service unit were given sentence ranging from three years to four years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Five men have been convicted by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin of membership of the Real IRA. The five men have been remanded in custody for sentencing at a later date.

The case against five men accused of Real IRA membership was "a strong case", a prosecution counsel told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A Limerick man accused of membership of an illegal organisation told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he was "100% against violence".

A Corkman arrested on suspicion of membership of an illegal organisation had tattoos including the Irish flag and Oglaigh na hEireann on his arms, the Special Criminal Criminal Court heard today.

A Cork man accused of Real IRA membership denied to gardai that he was a member of the IRA or of anything connected to it, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A man accused of membership of an unlawful organisation said he "was not a member of the IRA of any description or type" and that "the only organisation" he was a member of was Fine Gael, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The Special Criminal Court will give its ruling next week on an application by defence challenging the validity of the arrest and subsequent detention of one of five men accused of membership of an unlawful organisation.

Two men accused of membership of an unlawful organisation said they were not and never would be members of the IRA, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Simultaneous searches on the homes of three men accused of membership of an unlawful organisation uncovered items including a bodhran with a man in a balaclava carrying arms and badges inscribed with "sniper at work", the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Garda Inspector told the Special Criminal Court today that he saw two men place a Real IRA wreath at a republican plot in a Cork cemetery on Easter Saturday in 2003.

Four men accused of membership of an illegal organisation were observed by undercover gardaí arriving at a Co Cork hotel, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The trial has opened at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin of three Cork men and two Limerick men accused of membership of the Real IRA.

A house with a cottagey feel and a very warm atmosphere is how TJ Cronin of Irish and European describes Woodville on the Old Mallow Road.

Two men charged with membership of an illegal organisation were freed on bail by the Special Criminal Court today.

Four men arrested during a garda investigation into the activities of dissident republicans in the Munster area were charged with membership of an illegal organisation at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.