For 60 of my 75 years I was a film buff. A few words could be said with regard to the last of the old Cork cinemas, ie the Capitol which is nearly all knocked at present.

Gardaí had to go to a Mass in Cork City to arrest a man who was so drunk he was a source of danger in the church.

The magic of ‘the night before Christmas’ will come to life for children visiting the festive wonderland at Cork’s Bishop Lucey park this winter.

One of the country’s most notorious websites advertising sex for sale has seen the number of prostitutes it offers increase by 50% in the space of just three years.

Tony Mansfield, whose death took place in Cork on Sunday at the age of 73, was a leading figure in Waterford GAA, a member of the squad which contested the All-Ireland hurling final of 1963 against Kilkenny and going on to manage the 1992 U21 team which won the county’s only national title in the grade.

Thousands of families and friends of people lost to suicide came together last night to remember their loved ones at candle-lit ceremonies around the country.

A young Waterford man who died in Co Cork after possibly taking a deadly drug was laid to rest yesterday.

The Funeral Mass has taken place in Dungarvan in Co Waterford for one of the two men who died in Kinsale, Co Cork last weekend.

Health chiefs have issued a stark warning about a deadly form of ecstasy that has been linked to the deaths of two men in Co Cork.

A warning has been issued to recreational drug-users following the deaths of two young men in Cork.

Mourners at the funeral of a young mother-to-be killed in a road crash on Monday night heard how her injured husband held her hand as she lay in a hospital bed after the tragedy.

The woman who died in a head-on road collision on Monday night will be buried with her unborn daughter today following a funeral Mass in the church where she got married just last year.

IN Cork and Dublin they came in their thousands with candles, flowers and solemn prayers.

AN anniversary Mass in memory of the late great Christy Ring will be broadcast worldwide this Sunday on the internet.

AROUND 40 members of the Polish community in Cork were confirmed by the Bishop of Cork and Ross, John Buckley, in a packed church last night.

THE BODIES of the four Polish nationals killed in a road accident near Cork at the weekend are expected to be flown to Poland for burial on Thursday.

Catholics across Ireland today marked the first anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II with Masses celebrating his life.

THE Polish community in Ireland was in mourning yesterday after a building in southern Poland collapsed killing 66 people and injuring more than 200.

St Augustine’s Church is a focus point for many refugees in Limerick, particularly at Christmas, reports Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.