A landscape gardener with 141 convictions for drunken behaviour on the streets was described yesterday as a gentle giant who is incapable of having even one drink without causing trouble.

Two seminal Cork harbour mixed-use development sites with waterfrontage, in Crosshaven and in Passage West, come to the open market this week, being disposed of by the Doyle Shipping Group, and worth over €8m combined.

An Carraig in Kinsale has spectacular views, and dramatic plans to enhance the house, writes Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker on the charms of a centuries-old protected thatched cottage by the sea at Crosshaven that is priced to sell quickly.

James Oliver had a surprisingly easy win over Séamus Sexton in yesterday’s All-Ireland intermediate final at Port Mór-Blackwatertown, Armagh.

IT IS over 100 years since the peninsula curve and wooded hill at Currabinny was colonised with large homes for Cork’s merchant classes. Many served for years as summer and second homes, but now, the area’s very much a year-round community, at a sublime Cork harbour setting.

NOT every one-off house built during the boom was a McMansion — for every monster-sized block of a house mindlessly plonked in a field, there’s probably another built just right for its setting, and more discretely placed.

A 23-year-old on trial for murder told gardaí he couldn't explain why there were phone calls between his mobile and that of the man he is accused of killing, during the time the man was dying in hospital.

Defence lawyers for a man on trial for murder, assault and hijack, have argued that the prosecution's main witness has lied in his statements to gardai and in his evidence to the court.

A senior Garda has told a murder trial that the main witness in the case, who told gardaí of an alleged “confession” the accused man made to him, may have been under the impression that he was suspected of involvement.

A Garda forensic expert has told the trial of a man accused of murder, assault and hijacking, that he found a meat cleavers in a burnt out car which was allegedly involved in the events.

The main witness in the case of a man on trial for murder, hijacking and assault has told the jury that he broke his silence on the events, because he wanted the victim's family to “know what he knew”.

Rose Martin finds a rarity nestled near the pretty village of Crosshaven.

An alleged fuel smuggler who was cleared of killing a British solider at a cross-border checkpoint had two properties seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) today.

A man has died in an industrial accident at a construction site in Co Louth this morning.

Six Dundalk men charged with membership of an illegal organisation after gardai foiled a punishment beating in the town were further remanded for a fortnight at the Special Criminal Court today.