A former court clerk fined for threatening to kill a man he thought was having an affair with his wife has lost an appeal against his conviction.

A hammer and a knife were found under a parked car after an aggressive showdown between three men in the Togher area of Cork City on a bright summer’s evening.

Irish Water contractors are not installing meters in the homes of protestors after striking secret deals.

A new garden will serve as an outdoor training centre for vulnerable young women at risk of homelessness in Cork.

Ireland Davis Cup boss Garry Cahill will take considerable encouragement from Saturday’s excellent performance of his doubles pairing ahead of the relegation play-off against Egypt in Dublin on April 4-6.

Political activist Ben Gilroy is one of three people facing the prospect of imprisonment for breaching court orders by allegedly trespassing and occupying a Co Kildare stud farm.

It had to be Joe.

A long-lost takeaway treat favoured by generations of Corkonians has been given a new lease of life.

A man who dragged a garda along with his car after refusing to stop for him has been jailed for two and half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Four-bed Glenbrook house is selling for €325,000, says Tommy Barker.

When Mal O’Kelly joined Leinster they didn’t have dressing rooms but when he left the only thing they didn’t have was a ladyboys’ tag

BETRAYAL comes cheap these days. All the front bench of Fianna Fáil are pushing knives into each other.

LEINSTER Rugby will be moving its administrative and training headquarters later this year in a multi-million euro development that will be partly funded at least by a private benefactor.

NOT only was Senator Liam Twomey’s attack on Finance Minsiter Brian Lenihan out of order, it was also historically inaccurate and, as a student of history, I feel I should correct this.

JONATHAN SEXTON insists there is no ill-feeling between himself and Ronan O’Gara as the battle for the out-half position on the Irish team intensifies ahead of the November internationals.

LISMORE estate agent, actor and arts buff Ken Madden has another few strings to his bow — a cracking great local property on nine acres by the River Blackwater, as well as a property market-related book just out.

THE bus service to some of Cork city’s oldest and most populated suburbs — one of which includes a major Cope Foundation centre — is under threat.

Leinster confirmed today that they have reached agreement to make the David Lloyd Health & Fitness in Riverview, Clonskeagh, their new administrative home.

TUG-OF-LOVE woman Kathleen McCarthy O’Reilly is to be buried by her parents in Askeaton, Co Limerick, on Friday next by order of the High Court.

A MAJOR operation targeting reckless motorists is to be carried out over the next two days following two weeks of carnage on the roads that has left 15 people dead.

FIVE people have died in just 24 hours in one of the blackest weekends ever on Irish roads.

Five people have been killed in road collisions around the country since yesterday morning.

PAUL Fitzgerald hit the jackpot on the Dublin tennis scene for the second time within a couple of months when at the Westwood - Clontarf Arena he added the Danone National Spring Tennis Championship title to his indoor award.

PICK-AXES, slash hooks, hammers, golf clubs and rocks were recovered after a riot between 50 Travellers in Co Limerick early yesterday morning.

A Cork family were forced to flee their home in the early hours of this morning after it was firebombed.

Heavy rain was a prevalent factor at the Danone Sponsored Irish Close played at the Donnybrook LTC today.