The filming of a new movie documenting the 1983 prison breakout of IRA prisoners from the North’s Maze Prison got under way at the recently decommissioned Cork prison yesterday.

A centre with play areas and arts and crafts facilities, as well as support services, is to be opened for families visiting inmates in Cork’s new prison.

The most expensive prison ever built in the State, at a cost of €35m, will open in Cork this December. Construction is to finish by the end of next month.

Councillors in Kerry have voted to defy national guidelines on planning by permitting access to housing alongside a number of busy national roadways.

The noise and disruption from building work on the new €35m Cork Prison forced a woman recovering from cancer to leave her home.

This is an artist’s impression of what the new multi-million euro H Block-shaped Cork prison will look like when opened in 2015.

A YOUNG woman who brought over €400 of drugs into Cork Prison when she attended to visit a prisoner was ordered to do 150 hours of community service to avoid going to jail herself.

THE intensive security surrounding the trial made it clear that this was not an ordinary everyday case.

A DISCARDED cigarette may have started the house fire which claimed the life of a father-of-five in Cork yesterday.

CHRONIC overcrowding has forced the early release of 45 prisoners from Cork Prison in recent days in a stark illustration of the “revolving door” situation, it was claimed yesterday.

THOUSANDS of homes in Cork city’s northside were left without water following severe water disruption caused by broken pipes.

AN application for planning permission to build a new bridge between Spike Island in Cork Harbour and the mainland is expected to be lodged early next month.

THE mother of a young man killed in a car crash complained that victims were forgotten and treated with no importance as she criticised the Director of Public Prosecutions for dropping a charge of dangerous driving causing death.

The mother of a young man who was killed in a car crash complained today that victims were forgotten and treated with no importance as she criticised the Director of Public Prosecutions for dropping a dangerous driving causing death charge.

FATAL road accidents hit a horrifying new record over the weekend. In the blackest weekend ever on Irish roads, a catalogue of nine separate accidents claimed 10 lives.

Gardaí have released the names of five people who lost their lives on Irish roads yesterday.

The death of two men in a car crash yesterday evening in Tipperary has brought to five the number of people killed on Irish roads this weekend.

One man has died in a road accident in County Cork today.

20 schoolchildren have been taken to hospital in Co Kildare following a collision between a schoolbus and a car.

A schoolbus carrying 20 children and a car have been involved in a serious accident in Co Kildare.