The Court of Appeal has ruled that the sentence handed down to Patrick O’Brien for raping his daughter Fiona Doyle was unduly lenient.

Size: 2,717/2,879 sq ft

Size: Sq m 420 (4,500 sq ft)

MAYFIELD, CORK €275,000

Seven people control drugs distribution in Cork, writes Sean O’Riordan

Shooting stranded whales is to be considered by scientists, the Defence Forces and state wildlife officers, it has been revealed.

Shooting stranded whales is to be considered by scientists, the Defence Forces and state wildlife officers, it has been revealed.

IT lapped up on the market last year with the guide of €1.2 million, but now, Tidewater Hideaway near Skibbereen, Co Cork, is at an asking price of €900,000 to tempt a holiday season sale.

A BIRD’S eye view alone could sell it; the money spent on aerial photography should pay dividends for the vendor of this 36-acre parcel located between Skibbereen and Baltimore in west Cork.

A man was killed after the van he was driving crashed, gardaí said today.

THE murder of Gerard “Topper” Staunton is only the fifth gangland killing to occur in Cork, but the fifth nationally this month.

THE BIG freeze may have given way to torrential rain but the country’s drinking water supply is still under threat due to burst mains pipes and over-usage during the cold spell.

Flooding, ice and a drinking water outage caused chaos across Cork city and county today.

Tommy Barker on a stunning waterside home that makes a splash.

WITH a famous movie producer neighbour, a tidal estuary at the garden’s end plus a boathouse, pretty stables and an interior as stunning as its exterior, Tidewater Hideaway is very much in west Cork’s upper echelons.

A LIFEBOAT crewman had to wade through 80 feet of thick deep mud to rescue a family whose yacht got stuck on a mud-bank at the weekend.

FOR more than 70 years, she plied some of the world’s roughest oceans, providing a vital service to the people of the remote Falkland Islands.

“I WILL never have the words to explain to you how it feels to have the person you build your life around taken from you so needlessly.”

TWO properties, on the outskirts of Skibbereen in West Cork, offer a choice of location for full-time or holiday home occupiers.

WE have arrived home in Spain after yet another wonderful holiday in Ireland. We normally stay in the south-west Cork area.

Eoin English

THE murder of Eric Cummins was cold-blooded and well planned, depressingly familiar on the streets of Dublin and Limerick, but rarely seen in Cork.

GARDAÍ are examining a burned-out car they believe may be connected to a gangland-style assassination in Cork at the weekend.

PRIM, trim lawns, cheerful shrubbery, people carriers and four-wheel drives — normally Oldcourt in Ballincollig bears all the hallmarks of modern, mundane life.

SERENITY beckons at the Grain Store on Ringarogy.

Oldcourt home in Greenfields scheme has guide price of €235,000.

THE first of the re-sales to come up in Oldcourt, Greenfields, Ballincollig is listed with Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald. This four-bed detached home is a on a large, west-facing site.

A mother and her child have been hospitalised following a house fire in Co Wicklow this morning.