The parents of a young boy who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident have pleaded with the driver to come forward.

A 12-year-old boy is in hospital after being knocked down in an apparent hit-and-run in Cork last night.

Sixty nine men left Blackpool, in Cork City, to fight in World War 1 and never returned. Local historian Mark Cronin’s book, Blackpool to the Front, tells their story, which is echoed in towns across Ireland.

It was all too familiar for Hannah and Noel O’Driscoll waking in the early hours to the water coming into the ground floor of their Blackpool home.

CORK’S city manager has pledged to use the full weight of the law to tackle dereliction blighting one of the city’s most historic communities.

A convicted killer has been jailed for six years for robbing a 76-year-old who was walking home from mass in Cork city.

AS flood clean-ups got under way throughout Cork yesterday the ice returned, creating treacherous driving conditions which are likely to feature in the coming days as the cold snap once again takes a grip.

WATER was being restored to a number of areas in Cork city yesterday and last night council officials said that all but 8,000 homes would have their supply restored by early this evening.

GARDAÍ investigating the killing of a young mother in Cork over the weekend issued an appeal last night for three specific people to contact them.

DETECTIVES were last night confident of tracking down a cold-blooded killer who sat in a pub for at least 45 minutes looking at his victim prior to shooting him dead.

CORK city woke up to a flood of problems yesterday after a night of torrential rain.

Gardai in Cork are now appealing for witnesses after a shooting last night.

Gardai are treating the death of a man in Cork as suspicious.