NUIG/Gráinne Mhaol took their third consecutive senior eight at the Irish Rowing Championships in the National Rowing Centre, Farran Woods, yesterday.

A state counsel yesterday criticised a cleric for coming into court to give character evidence on behalf of a homeless campaigner convicted of stealing €26,852 from an 88-year-old care home patient.

There’s been lots done to 7 Murmont Villas by its owners over the last number of years, and now the semi-detached family home off Cork city’s Old Youghal Road is poised for new occupiers.

The Good Shepherd Order has added another name to a headstone for a mass Magdalene grave, more than a quarter of a century after the woman’s death.

Two men appeared in Cork District Court yesterday facing charges related to the weekend seizure of cannabis with a street value of €1.5m.

The taxpayer is facing a hefty clean-up bill after tonnes of rotting rubbish and vast piles of nappies containing human waste were found inside an abandoned suburban house.

A six-strong senior boxing team, due to represent Ireland at a multi-nations tournament in Moscow, were left stranded yesterday morning after a mix-up with their passports.

“They said on the radio we were a sleepy little place.”

A PUBLIC meeting aimed at building a campaign against the Government’s proposed €100 household charge will be held on the northside of Cork tonight.

John Spillane’s new album reveals a softer, less quirky side. But he still eats rashers and drinks Beamish, he tells Carl Dixon

Prince Albert II of Monaco has arrived in Ireland at the start of a three-day state visit.

A RAFT of new bylaws, including a ban on children over 12 from using playground equipment, are to be introduced to crack down on anti-social behaviour in Cork’s city parks.

BOYS number 117 and 146 hadn’t been in touch for over 40 years but when they spotted each other in the crowd, they were instantly back in the childhoods they had tried hard to forget.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen tonight vowed no stone would be left unturned in the hunt for the killers of rugby player Shane Geoghegan.

CONDITIONS at a psychiatric ward in a Limerick city hospital were described as “appalling and custodial” in the Mental Health Commission’s annual report, published yesterday.

TRIBUTES were yesterday paid to the Waterford toddler who drowned at a family barbecue on Saturday.

IN the first three months of this year I was a patient at the Bons Secours hospital in Cork.

THERE are two for the choosing in one of the most convenient and established areas in Cork city — the Cross Douglas Road.

Dozens of mourners queued today to pay their respects to former Taoiseach Charles Haughey within minutes of a book of condolence being opened in the heart of his old constituency.

An order of nuns who ran an industrial school for girls today apologised for failing to provide for their needs.

THE sexual abuse of children at an industrial school in Galway was viewed by the Christian Brothers as a moral failure rather than a crime, an inquiry heard last night.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

A LINE of ten riot officers stood across Johnny Rodger’s driveway when he opened his door to a loud knock around 6.30am yesterday.

PUPILS at St Mary’s School for the Visually Impaired have an uncertain future when their school closes for the summer today.