The organiser of a teenage disco in Cork, where emergency services were called to free a group of girls trapped in a lift, has apologised to hundreds of Junior Certificate students denied entry to the event.

WORLD tennis number one Novak Djokovic is a man who knows a lot about discipline.

Couples were ushered down the aisle and invited to take a stroll down memory lane as Cork’s Silver Springs Moran Hotel hosted a showcase to celebrate 50 years of weddings at the venue.

Suburban train services were disrupted in Cork yesterday after a truck got jammed under a railway bridge in the city.

A date has been determined for an oral hearing into the €100m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange.

Cork Federation Day competitions will be held in the Silver Springs Moran Hotel on Mar 4 (12 noon-2pm).

Five American teenagers broke into a Florida home and snorted the ashes of the owner’s dead father and her deceased dogs.

THE Cork branch of Down Syndrome Ireland is planning a series of fund-raisers to help defray the cost of employing two full-time speech and language therapists.

The former leader of the INLA in Dublin, Declan `Whacker’ Duffy, has been jailed for four years for membership of the organisation.

IF I live to be a hundred, I don’t think I will ever quite get my head around the phenomenon known as Cheltenham.

CORK businessman Mitchel Barry was “puzzled and amused” at his invitation to a private dinner because he wasn’t told the name of the special guest of honour, the Mahon Tribunal has heard.

Don’t mention the war, we agreed. “I’ll meet on one condition”, laughed Waterford’s Jim Greene.

HOTELS need to work harder to deliver a better product and attract tourists, the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) yesterday said.

The ESB National Grid will host a workshop in Cork’s Silver Springs hotel next Wednesday to promote its scheme for businesses to manage energy demand over the winter.

CORK-BASED nurse Niamh Casey recognises that she has been given a unique opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable people in Darfur, western Sudan.

Moran Hotel Group is to sell three of its Dublin pubs in order to focus on operating hotels.

FOR the first time in his life Bertie needed a decoy last night to break through a crowd: angry IFI workers protesting outside a Fianna Fáil fundraising dinner.