A Corkman caught with €32,000 worth of heroin who claimed he had only gone to Limerick to get papers for his pet chihuahua was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday.

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A motorcycle garda who anticipated a potentially fatal accident and stopped traffic on a junction of the main Cork/Mallow road was seriously injured when struck by a stolen van, and yesterday, he was commended for his outstanding professionalism as the culprit got a 12-year jail term.

A 27-year-old man who deliberately drove a van, while drunk, at a motorcycle garda has been jailed for twelve years for various offences.

* The award-winning garden of Gertie and Maurice O’Donoghue at Dromboy, Carrignavar, will open this Saturday and Sunday from 2pm to 6pm in aid of the Friends of Marymount.

A motorist high on drugs who rammed a Garda car twice during an escapade of dangerous driving was banned from driving for 10 years and jailed for five years with the last two years suspended.

* The World Flower Show will run at the RDS, Dublin from June 19 to 22.

Thirteen fresh charges have been brought against a man accused of crashing a stolen car into a motorcycle garda and endangering his life.

Two men facing charges arising out of the investigation of a high-speed chase in Cork on April 18, in which a motorcycle garda was seriously injured, were back in Cork District Court yesterday.

Two men, arrested after a high-speed pursuit during which a garda was injured, have been remanded in custody after being charged with theft and a range of road traffic offences.

Two men who were arrested after a high speed pursuit in Cork during which a garda was injured have been remanded in custody after being charged with theft and a range of road traffic offences.

A Garda motorcyclist tossed into the air by a speeding stolen van was yesterday hailed a hero for safeguarding other road users from being killed or seriously injured.

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.

There are reports of a high-speed chase underway in Cork, and that a garda has been injured after he came off his motorcycle as part of the chase.

The 2014 Sliabh Luachra Music Trail, celebrating the traditional musical style of the area, will be launched on Friday by Arts Minister, Jimmy Deenihan, TD, at Ballydesmond Community Centre. The aim is a year-round calendar of events, encompassing festivals and venues throughout the region.

Building work has started on a new Garda station to replace one gutted in an arson attack almost five years ago.

Nearly €100,000 worth of cigarettes were seized by customs officers supported by armed gardaí when they stopped a Ford Transit van on the outskirts of Cork City yesterday morning.

Construction is to start next March on a garda station which will be built on the site of one which was firebombed in 2008.

Top-ranking gardaí in Cork are moving to calm the fears of communities over the planned closures of four garda stations in the city and county by holding a series of public meetings.

Four Garda Stations in Cork city will close to the public next week.

A new computerised system is to be launched by gardaí in Cork as part of a radical shake-up of the force in the city and county which, it is claimed, will improve their service to the public.

A Garda staff association has expressed serious concern at how the force in Cork City is going to cope after it was left with just one 24-hour station for the whole city.

Much work has been done in recent years to improve the N52 linking Dundalk to Nenagh. Extensive works are underway near Borrisokane to improve transit times on this corridor.

Councillors have claimed a new junction layout under construction on the main Cork-Mallow road will end up causing fatal accidents instead of preventing them.

While it sticks rigidly to best practice in its operations and avoids environmental issues that plague other sites, Bottlehill landfill has serious problems, writes Claire O’Sullivan

FIVE people died in crashes on Irish roads over the weekend.

TWO gardaí were injured after their patrol car was deliberately rammed by a tractor.

Dublin Airport has reopened after being forced to close for a second time today, but the wintry conditions have forced Dublin Bus to cease all operations from 8pm tonight.

The arctic weather conditions are hitting public transport services with many bus routes not operating today.

AS a symbol of the effort required by the nation to get us through dire economic times, the Dublin City Marathon is a fitting metaphor.

THREE weekend fatalities have brought the number of people killed on Irish roads to 170 this year and to 15 this month.

Gardaí have named the two people who died in separate crashes in Kilkenny and Cork yesterday.

A 41-YEAR-OLD man became the 167th person to die on Irish roads this year after the car he was driving was involved in a horrific crash with a lorry on the main Cork to Limerick road.

A man has died following a crash in Co. Cork.

IT’S one of the most subtle and intelligent renovations of a railway cottage you’ll find and this Mourneabbey, Mallow, property is also in showhouse condition.

CLAIMS have been made that drivers will not use a proposed new motorway service station because it was too close to Cork city.

THE National Roads Authority hopes to build the 80km motorway linking Limerick with Cork over two phases at an estimated cost of €800 million.