A woman who met a man online was found dead in his bed the next morning, an inquest has heard. Margaret Crowley, 37, of St Colman’s Place, Buttevant, Co Cork, joined ‘social discovery’ website Tagged where she met Brian Glass, from Tallaght in Dublin.

The families of Michael and Valerie Greaney, who died as a result of a murder-suicide, have asked for donations to be made to a group which works with people who are considering suicide.

TO A TOURIST, the subdued mood in the seaport town of Cobh probably seemed no more than a dose of the post-Christmas blues, but for locals the picture was far darker.

IN 1970, fresh out of St Colman’s boarding school, I attended UCC.

Airtricity League Premier Division: Limerick v Cork City

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AFTER nearly 10 years in the dark, the magnificent Cobh Cathedral is to be illuminated again — at a fraction of the previous cost.

FOR so long Bishop John Magee’s toughest battle in St Colman’s Cathedral was in trying to change and modernise an ancient structure that was protected by law.

IN strictly hurling terms he’s had the best of a number of worlds, has Stephen Molumphy.

LINES of people sloping stoically along to a far-off water pump while holding any container they can find would normally give rise to images of a ravaged part of sun-scorched, sub-Saharan Africa.

THE youngest Irish person to swim the English Channel has dedicated his record-breaking feat to his late grandmother.

HEAVYWEIGHTS Eamonn Higgins (UCC) and Martin Donovan (OLOL) claim top billing on Friday night when Cork County Board host a charity boxing show in aid of the Alzheimer’s Association at Neptune Stadium (7pm).

TWO of Ireland’s leading female boxers, Olga Cronin (Dungarvan) and Laura O’Neill (Kilkenny), will touch gloves when Rylane Boxing Club stage a star-studded charity show in aid of Macroom Hospital at the River Park Hotel in Macroom on Sunday night.

A PARISH priest was placed under garda protection following verbal assaults on him during Mass in a Co Wexford village.

By Tommy Barker

LOYALIST paramilitaries faced new demands last night to hand over all their pipe bombs.

A Sinn Féin councillor in Lisburn outside Belfast says there has been a worrying increase in sectarian attacks in the area.

TOP class boxing returns to Fermoy tonight with a star-studded show at the Rowing Club where the McDonagh brothers will top the bill.