The enticing prospect of feasting your eyes as you tuck into your breakfast is an added bonus of this appealing County Cork residence.

A 47-year-old man, who denied arson causing €200,000 to his own business but was found guilty by a jury, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of making a fraudulent insurance claim afterwards.

A 47-year-old man from Passage West accused of arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building and making an insurance claim by deception denied both charges and went on trial by judge and jury yesterday.

The taxpayer is facing a hefty clean-up bill after tonnes of rotting rubbish and vast piles of nappies containing human waste were found inside an abandoned suburban house.

A Cork man who was arrested during the garda investigation into a money laundering operation involving the proceeds of the 2004 Northern Bank robbery in Belfast was jailed for three years and three months for IRA membership by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.