For Cork City, it’s now six games without a win under Neale Fenn and four games in succession without a goal.

Bohemians needed penalties to decide an epic Extra.ie FAI Cup second round tie with James Talbot the hero, saving the crucial penalty from opposing number Lee Steacy.

A three-man "hit for hire team" have received sentences totalling 36.5 years at the Special Criminal Court for planning to kill a member of the Hutch family before they were intercepted by gardai just 250 metres from their target's home in Dublin's north inner city.

A three-man "hit for hire team", which included an Afghan war veteran, were planning to kill a member of the Hutch family before they were intercepted by gardaí just 250 metres from the "intended target's" home in Dublin's north inner city, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

Singer/songwriter David Kitt likes to keep a close eye on his diet. Always on the move, his focus is on energy, not weight.

In the back of the seaside garden in Currabinny, the vegetable patch can prove fickle when it comes to growing certain things.

Dublin is a city of trees. They shape the city, give light and shade, colour some of the busiest thoroughfares and add incredible atmosphere and charm to the city.

A cynic, according to Oscar Wilde’s Lord Darlington, is “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”.

The Irish recruitment scene is enjoying an upsurge in activity in recent times, as can been seen with this selection of new appointments and promotions.

Do you ever find yourself missing your four-legged friend on a night out?

Amid the serious business at hand, there was some light relief around at Cork City’s Bishopstown training ground this week.

There has been a call for investment into the fire service nationwide.

A hotel and local residents have successfully challenged a decision by Dublin City Council to grant planning permission for a large new outlet for a German discount supermarket group.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a 42-year-old man, found unresponsive in a public toilet in Cork while out socialising with family. He subsequently died.

House prices close to new Luas Cross City service linking the red and green lines have rocketed by 15% in value, compared to a 6% increase in similar homes near other rail stations, it has emerged.

PROBABLY no festival will bring as many different musical styles to Cork this year as Sounds From a Safe Harbour, returning this week after a much-lauded debut in 2015.

Donohoe has solidified his position as a central player in Fine Gael and is now in pole position to be a contender the next time a leadership contest is held, writes Daniel McConnell

UPDATE: Oliver Watchorn has been found safe and well.

To have an airport called after you demands a wider international celebrity most Irish sportspeople simply do not have, writes Paul Rouse.

Pat Hickey, president of the Irish Olympic Committee who stepped side temporarily yesterday, was described recently as “Teflon Man” but he will need the slipperiness of an eel to slide out of his latest brush with controversy.

Your name? Margaret, she says. And that got him, the same name as his own mother. With the same motherly concern Margaret Kavanagh had when scumbags beat her son senseless, hit him with a brick, tried to throw him in front of a bus. That was the start. Ever since, John Kavanagh’s been winning and learning.

Missing Dublin woman Karen Scott, who has Down syndrome, has been found safe and well.

Gardaí are investigating a reported sighting of a missing woman with Down syndrome in Penneys on St Patrick’s Street, in Cork.

A trial date has been set in relation to the murder of a 36-year-old man believed to have been stabbed in a Phibsboro flat. 

A Kerry fan who travelled to Dublin for the All-Ireland football final drowned after a night out with friends, an inquest heard.

On Easter Saturday 1916, Tom Clifford sat down in his room in 4 Gardiner St to write a letter to his brother Dan. The letter has recently been discovered by their niece, Carmel Clifford.

Political Editor Daniel McConnell goes on the campaign trail in Dublin with Paschal Donohoe

Every day I take the same route.

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Five water meter protesters have been given prison sentences by the High Court for breaching an order restraining them from coming within a 20m exclusion zone surrounding installation works.

Five Dublin water protesters are facing jail for contempt of court.

A group of water protesters may be jailed or fined today if the High Court finds they have obstructed water meter installation works in North Dublin.

A robber described as a “menace to society who caused fear and terror” when he held up six Dublin businesses armed with a knife has been jailed for 10 years with three suspended.

Some are using the feeling of anger in Ireland to drag the standards of decency and legitimate protest down. It must stop, writes Michael Clifford 

Tragic pensioner Peggy Mangan died from hypothermia having walked for 23 kilometres, an inquest has heard.

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly has been spared a possible jail sentence and a criminal conviction for an unprovoked attack on a man in a pub two years ago.

Roy Keane shares Niall Quinn’s disappointment at Stephen Ireland’s international exile — insisting representing Ireland should rank as the high point of a player’s career.

Gardaí in Dublin are renewing their appeal for information after a woman was stabbed in the city centre last week.