A Cork community is trying to comfort the family of a young woman whose life was tragically cut short when she drowned in West Cork on Tuesday night.

The family of one of two homeless people whose bodies were taken from the River Lee on Sunday night has asked that donations be made to the Cork Simon Community.

A parish priest is among those disappointed over the refusal of planning permission for the first privately operated graveyard in Cork.

“Your mum is safe in heaven and now nothing can ever hurt her again.”

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is to write to the family of a young Cork fan of the club who died after a kickabout with his friends.

Friends of a popular 14-year-old schoolboy who collapsed and died after a game of soccer are urging Liverpool FC to highlight his memory when they play Hearts in the Uefa Cup tomorrow.

CCTV cameras have been installed outside a graveyard on the outskirts of Cork City to deter thieves targeting mourners’ cars.

TESTS are taking place amid fears that a Cork father may have died from the rare, lethal brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

A FORMER lord mayor of Cork and a legend on the city’s northside devoted his entire life to the service of others, mourners were told yesterday.

TWO young men who died after being struck by a car driven by an off-duty garda were yesterday laid to rest amid a continuing investigation into the incident.

GARDAÍ have met with senior members of all families connected to last Thursday’s tragic road deaths in Knocknaheeny, Cork, amid growing tensions in the area.

A STONEMASON stabbed to death in Cork city was yesterday remembered at his requiem mass as having been a cheerful, outgoing person who had a love of travel and cooking.

THE little boy who died after being crushed by a lorry, just days before he was due to start primary school, was buried in his new uniform yesterday.

THE prayers of a tight-knit community are being said for the family of a four-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday, five days after being run over by a coal lorry.

A CITY council is to introduce strict restrictions on the size of headstones in its cemeteries following the furore surrounding a huge monument erected to a well-known horse dealer.

HOLLYWOOD stars mingled with mourners yesterday as actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers bid an emotional farewell to his beloved mother.

Some of the biggest names in the world of entertainment stood side by side with actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers this morning as he said a final farewell to his late mother.

THE removal took place in Cork City last night of an Irishman whose body was found inside a freezer in an apartment in Portugal.

SECTIONS of the media came under fire from a Travellers’ spokesperson yesterday for giving a ‘sensationalist’ slant to serious acts of violence in the Traveller community.

GARDAÍ yesterday appealed for calm among hostile rival elements of the Travelling community, in Kerry, to allow the investigation into the murder of Michael Faulkner, aged 43, in Tralee to continue.