A Polish national who sold two stolen cars on DoneDeal for around €6,000 each has received a suspended three-year jail term.

A 30-year-old West Cork woman has been convicted of dangerous driving and disqualified for two years after admitting to overtaking a driving school car on “a blind bend” at 100km/h in a 50km zone in Killarney.

Only in Kerry.

A stunned taxi driver has won €1m after checking his Daily Million ticket he purchased last month.

It started by accident. Shane Clifford quit his job in Tesco and went travelling in Asia. On his return, while waiting to enrol in a programming course at Tralee IT, he started making short comedy videos for his own entertainment and posting them on social media.

Japan’s meeting with Russia at the 2002 World Cup produced one of Eamon Dunphy’s most famous RTÉ moments.

Update 1pm: Gardaí say they are now satisfied that a knife was not produced following an alleged assault on a late-night cinema goer in Cork's Mahon Point shopping centre on Friday night.

A cyclist who did everything right was killed by a motorist who turned around momentarily to tell one of her children to remove a tag from a toy they had just bought.

This week a focus on Austria, one of the most consistent wine producing countries on the planet — I’d even go so far as to say that I have yet to taste a wine from Austria that I didn’t like.

They used to say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Cork City striker Graham Cummins knows better.

The husband of missing Tina Satchwell insists he did not kill his wife as gardaí search woodland in the hope of solving the mystery of her disappearance.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of Tina Satchwell have sealed off a woodland in East Cork which they will begin searching today.

The distraught parents of a healthy 20-year-old student who died suddenly in a hospital emergency department (ED) still do not know why their daughter died following an inquest.

A smart revamp of Tralee town centre, nearing completion, has left the town’s taxi operators feeling pushed aside by a pedestrian-focused project.

Gardaí are examining two suitcases which the husband of missing East Cork woman Tina Satchwell said might have been hers.

Gardaí are examining two suitcases which the husband of missing East Cork woman Tina Satchwell said might have been hers.

The London School of Economics this week published a cheerful report under the title Does Money Affect Children’s Outcomes? An Update.

Aiding his elderly mother inspired him to create ProU, a fortified yogurt, Michael Murphy tells Trish Dromey.

Christmas can be a stressful time.

A man who followed customers including children in a Tralee supermarket while masturbating three years ago has “made Trojan efforts” Tralee Circuit Criminal Court has been told and is to be given the Probation Act.

Police in England have released CCTV footage of a "savage" attack on a homeless man which left him with possible life-changing injuries.

Security staff at a toy store saw two women loading toys into the boot of a car and then returning to the shop to steal more stuff.

The leader of a syndicate that claimed the €381,863 EuroMillions jackpot hours before deadline said that they knew there was an unclaimed prize for a couple of weeks before checking their ticket.

The National Lottery says a Euromillions ticket holder has come forward to claim their prize of almost €400,000.

A huge pot of cash from a EuroMillions’ ticket purchased in Midleton, Co Cork, is sitting unclaimed at National Lottery HQ — with just hours to go to the deadline.

A teachers syndicate has collected their Lotto winnings today while the National Lottery also said that a €381,863 EuroMillions prize has not been collected by the winner from Cork.

It could be you — and it could be right up your street.

 

A Dublin family has collected a cheque for €191,461 from the National Lottery Headquarters today after their EuroMillions win in April.

After four decades of outstanding service to the visually impaired community and over a decade working with families of children with autism Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind is set to launch their most important fundraising campaign since they first began in 1976.

Four boy racers were yesterday fined a total €15,000 after gardaí in Kerry mounted a covert operation near Killarney two weeks ago.

Lawyers for a Ballymun man jailed for his role in an attempted robbery have claimed his trial was unfair because the State “cleansed” the jury of people from Ballymun, Cabra and Finglas.

A heroin addict was found lying across a pew in a Cork church last Christmas Eve with the paraphernalia of drug use scattered around him and yesterday the 28-year-old was jailed for eight months for that and a series of shoplifting offences.

While X Factor didn’t make her rich, Mary Byrne is happy with her lot and delighted to be starring in Menopause the Musical, writes Colette Sheridan

IT’S the morning after Aoibheann McCaul’s first appearance on RTÉ 2’s mockumentary Hardy Bucks.

A 31-year-old man with 50 previous convictions has been jailed for six months for the theft of a car fob, at Killarney District Court.

The partner of a man whose body was found in a duvet days after his death has told a murder trial jury that the accused said he had cut off the deceased’s penis.

I have a nostalgic theme this week as I was reminded at recent tastings by how much our tastes have changed since I first became interested in wine.

A British man who admitted assaulting several people who touched their noses has been found guilty of spitting at a six-month-old baby.

A mother of four who was in dire financial straits filled a trolley with almost €600 worth of groceries and cosmetics and rolled it out of a supermarket without paying.

Ian Fitzhenry can thank an alert taximan and a garda patrol crew. Ian, a student at Sexton Street CBS, almost didn’t sit English Paper 1, on the first day of the Leaving Cert, in June, because he misread the bus timetable.

Retailers are calling on the Government to roll out a major information campaign before sounding the death knell of 1c and 2c coins in order to reassure consumers they are not being ripped off.

A lucky Lotto player from the north east is €2 million richer today after scooping the jackpot in last night's draw.