It is understood that a car struck and demolished a supporting pillar for the roof of retail units next to Quish's SuperValu in Ballincollig.

Michelle Morgan, 27, who was playing on behalf of her mother took home a grand total of €522,000 on last night's show.

A 95-year-old woman was targeted in the Supervalu car park in Fermoy by what Gardai are describing as non-national criminals targeting vulnerable people.

Carolanne Rushe has a way of drawing you in. Talk of her travels and how the vertiginous mounds of aromatic spices in the Qatar souk influenced her cooking is enough to whet any appetite.

Two sisters who assaulted a woman in front of her baby son have been ordered to complete community service hours in lieu of prison sentences.

THE most divisive of all surveys we have ever done, who knew that burgers could be controversial?

There’s a millionaire out there with just a week left to claim their life-changing prize.

Here's a selection of some of today's sights and sounds from around the country on day 2 of Storm Emma

It was far from scary in the National Lottery HQ today as three players from Monaghan, Donegal and Cork celebrated a Happy Hallo'win after collecting €363,294 on Lotto and Scratch Cards.

When I gave it a bit more thought though, I fell half in love with the idea of having my own personal robot to mind me, writes Terry Prone.

GAA chiefs are expected to take the lessons learned from Wednesday night’s opening game in the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh and apply them at this weekend’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals.

She scratched the ticket in the car while her husband popped to the vet to get fish food.

Traders will meeting representatives of the Office of Public Works tomorrow to discuss the potential impact of plans to close a car park in the heart of tourism hot-spot Clonakilty next summer.

THERE was no shortage of black pudding on the shelves at the end of 2016 when I went shopping for this survey. We tasted just about all I could find in shops (not butchers) in Cork.

A Cork family has picked up €500,000 they won in the EuroMillions Plus draw last week.

Significant changes in traffic management are being considered in the country’s biggest whitefish port to ensure expansion of the industry in the coming years is not hampered by gridlock.

A public health warning has been issued after it was confirmed an adult with measles visited a number of locations in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, and in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, in recent weeks.

A son of Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh has been spared a criminal conviction and a possible sentence for stealing a box of Desperados beer.

A pioneering Cork-based initiative to cater for autistic and disabled shoppers has gone national after similar schemes were adopted by major retailers across the country — and even by a supermarket in the UK.

A 1990s-built, yet traditional looking 14-bedroomed townhouse accommodation business in West Cork’s Clonakilty has a guide price of €600,000 as it comes for sale, all ready to trade: even the bedrooms are prepped for guests.

Not many people would claim to feel lucky after being stabbed multiple times and yet Dublin’s Jonny Cooper has no doubt he was fortunate not to have suffered a worse fate when he was attacked in a late-night incident just over a year ago.

It’s the country’s most internationally renowned celebration, and everybody knows it. All across the world, people with itchy feet are making bucket lists — Brazil for Carnivale, India for Holi, and Ireland for St Patrick’s Day.

A Toyota Land Cruiser suspected of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash almost three years ago, was registered in the name of a 22-year-old accused and he also had an insurance policy on the vehicle, a court heard yesterday.

Murdered mum Jolanta Lubiene had her tickets booked to return permanently to Lithuania in July last year, her sister said yesterday.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has served eight enforcement orders on food businesses in August for breaches in food safety legislation

AUSTRALIA has slipped a little in sales in Ireland, partly due to a strong Australian dollar, but we still buy around a quarter of our wines from a country that constitutes just 5% of the global market.

JOE MANNIX is happy. He is surrounded by people who care for and about him and hasn’t a care in the world.

Gardaí should get regular refresher courses in CPR, a jury recommended after an inquest yesterday into the death of a man who collapsed in a Garda station cell.

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Festival of music, fun, and food kicks off today in a three-day spree expected to attract 100,000 spectators.

A Meath mother who stole over €100,000 from the Supervalu where she worked as a manager has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

MUCKROSS WALK, KILLARNEY

A Meath mother who stole more than €100,000 from the Supervalu where she worked as a manager has been remanded on bail pending sentence next March.

A politician has called for Defence Forces backup to deal with Travellers who have set up home in Co Donegal.

Enda Kenny bit off more than he could chew at The Crusty Corner.

*It’s a typically seasonal forecast for St Patrick’s Day — cold weather with sunny spells and showers — but that won’t stop tens of thousands of people from taking to the streets for celebrations this weekend.

THERE was a time when the wine business was almost exclusively male but thankfully those days are long gone.

SO that’s January out of the way for another year.

FROM the 1970s until recently, if someone mentioned Spanish wines your first (and only) thought was Rioja.

Ardfield, West Cork €375,000

Permission to challenge a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for a large-scale retail development at the site of a former military barracks in Co Cork has been granted by the High Court.

A High Court challenge has been brought against An Bord Pleanála’s decision to give the go-ahead to a large-scale retail development at the site of a former military barracks in Ballincollig, Co Cork.