The expansion of Cork City’s boundary has resulted in a shake-up of electoral wards. In the first of a five-part series,

A young Dublin man who burst his girlfriend's eardrum in a beating which left her vomiting for a whole night has been sentenced to four and a half years.

All parades take place on Sunday unless stated otherwise.

A witness to a violent disorder after a christening in Cork was threatened not to give evidence by one of the men involved in the affray.

Gardaí were notified in a 999 call of a man running around a residential area of Cork with a shotgun, but yesterday a man admitted to making the call as a hoax.

The mother of a young man killed while travelling as a passenger in a stolen car eight years ago has been awarded €72,000.

Armed gardaí dealt with a violent row where one man was seen carrying a hatchet and a crowbar but the accused man claimed he only had the items after he tidied up the scene because children were in the area.

Volunteers behind a new museum say they hope to tell the remarkable stories here of the US military’s bravest Irish heroes.

The investigation into the blacking out of street signs named after Britain’s Queen Victoria resulted in a councillor and two other men being charged at Cork District Court yesterday.

Arts editor Des O’Driscoll selects the must-see movies at the Cork Film Festival.

A Cork man who maintains “an image of himself as a man to be feared” was jailed yesterday for five years.

A giant vegetable chilli made from food grown in community gardens across Cork city will be rustled up this weekend as part of a special food festival.

It was a location for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, so it’s no surprise that Kerry has been listed as one of the best star-gazing spots on the planet.

A middle-aged man struck a woman in an unprovoked attack and then continued the assault as she lay on the ground in a crime which the sentencing judge described as despicable and cowardly.

A man accused of fracturing a woman’s cheekbone has been remanded in custody.

Gardaí went to arrest a man for allegedly fracturing a woman’s cheekbone when he appeared at an upstairs window of a house armed with a petrol canister and later barricaded himself into a room.

Three young men were remanded in custody for their parts in a violent disorder in the northside of Cork city last summer — the worst public order incident the local sergeant has seen in 10 years in the area.

Selfies taken by a motorist led to his prosecution on multiple counts of dangerous driving after he took off at speed from gardaí through red lights in Cork City.

A Corkman accused of robbing a man in what was described as a vicious lunchtime attack in the city denied the crime and said he was with his wife waiting for his lunch in a café.

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A man who escaped in handcuffs from a garda patrol car after being arrested in connection with a riot in Cork city in the early hours of Thursday morning was picked up by gardaí yesterday afternoon.

A drugs mule caught with a stash of heroin in the course of a garda surveillance operation at a hotel car park in Cork was yesterday jailed for three years, with the last two years suspended.

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A convicted sex offender who harassed his neighbour by following her into her apartment and ordering her to give him her underwear is to be sentenced later.

A Garda Regional Support Unit member testified in a trial yesterday he was briefed in advance that an accused man was expected to be at the scene of an attempted aggravated burglary.

A teenager put the middle finger of both hands up to gardaí and then threw stones at them, flashed his backside and threatened that he would rape their wives.

Workers at a popular pub in Waterford are staging a sit-in after three bars under the same ownership closed their doors with immediate effect on Monday night.

A dancing garda has become an internet sensation in a video highlighting the attractions of a traditional seaside resort.

Only 5% or 6% of adults in the Knocknaheeny and Churchfield areas of Cork City have college degrees and one in three in some parts of the northside have only been educated to primary level.

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The National Transport Authority has proposed an additional three buses for the Glen in Cork City and has given a commitment to look at future services.

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Voice of Ireland finalist Kelly Mongan-McDonagh broke down while singing ‘Amazing Grace’ at the funeral of a 7-year-old Traveller who died after being thrown from a pony.

The redevelopment of Cork Prison looks set to go ahead after Justice Minister Alan Shatter dismissed an overwhelmingly negative local response to the €22m plan.

Dancers, martial arts exponents, sea creatures, and of course a few Vikings were all in the mix as Waterford celebrated the national day with a few nods to its past and its heritage.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions expects that, despite Thursday’s promissory note deal, tens of thousands of people will still turn out for today’s anti-austerity march because of the anger that Ireland is still burdened with a €64bn banking debt.

A murder investigation has been launched after a man was gunned down in front of his 11-year-old stepdaughter in an apparent gangland killing yesterday.

Efforts to return to normal home and business life continued across the weekend in parts of Cork hit by last week’s floods.

A major “health plan” is to be drawn up for Cork City following its designation by the World Health Organisation as a “healthy city”.

AT a meeting of the Northside Principals’ Group meeting in Scoil Iosagáin, Farranree recently, 22 principals in Cork city met to discuss the proposed cuts to DEIS schools.