The mother of a girl killed in a tragic farm accident has described her beloved daughter as a "bright, intelligent, popular girl".

Wiping away tears, Linda Dinsberga spoke movingly about 8-year-old Paula, who was killed in a farm accident on a rented farm at Rusheen, Newtownshandrum, outside Charleville, Co Cork, on Sunday.

The mother of a girl killed in a tragic farm accident has described her beloved daughter as a "bright, intelligent, popular girl."

A family were keeping a vigil at the bedside of their daughter, 11, at Cork University Hospital, after she was critically injured when a tractor front loader fell on top of her.

Four men have been arrested in Co. Cork following the discovery of a cannabis growhouse with up to €100,000 worth of drugs in Macroom.

A selection of starter homes from around the country

DOCTORS could not operate on a man requiring urgent surgery as there was no out-of-hours scan facility at the hospital, an inquest has heard.

PUPILS celebrating 125 years of education in a Cork parish include five great-great-grandchildren of one of the first teachers at the school.

The majority of schools served by Bus Éireann school bus services have decided to close for today and tomorrow.

Seven people have been killed in a series of accidents on the country’s roads this Bank Holiday weekend.

Two motorcyclists have died in serious crash in County Kerry this evening.

A woman in her late 70s has died in a road crash in Galway this afternoon.