“It’s a disaster for the village,” is how the owner of Falvey’s pharmacy, Conor Falvey, summed up the fallout from the weekend fire in Douglas Shopping Centre that has forced its temporary closure.

Councillors have blocked the disposal of two derelict sites in Cork amid concerns about the sale prices.

A bread van thief rose up against his sentencing judge and told him he was appealing a previous sentence for another crime and that it would bring the judge’s career to an end.

A homeless Cork man was so desperate to get arrested that he decided to commit a bizarre crime, going behind the counter of a busy pharmacy and rummaging through boxes for D10 sleeping tablets.