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.

A busy southside supermarket in Cork City is proposed for expansion into a neighbourhood centre.

A CITY veterinary practice that is almost 90 years in business has made a €1 million-plus move to a brand new site — having knocked a bank branch to build anew.

Sq m: 165 (1,798 sq ft)

Changes made in the past number of years make the family home at 106 Palmbury Orchard, fit for a wide range of uses — it’s been extended, and now has a ground-floor en suite bedroom, which is wheelchair-accessible.

JUST half an hour before it was due to open for the first time last night, gardaí raided a new 1,000-capacity bingo hall in Cork and seized all the bingo books.

IT’S the three-year traffic lights fiasco that is set to cost taxpayers over €230,000.

MAURA Lane was anxiously watching the television at 5am when the Cork woman first realised that a flotilla of humanitarian aid vessels, with her son Fintan, on board was under attack from Israeli commandos.

BUS ÉIREANN has introduced 25 new low-emission buses on Cork city routes as part of a e6 million investment.

Gardaí have named the woman who was knocked down and killed by a car in Cork city yesterday.

The woman in her 70s died yesterday after she was hit by a car on the Togher road in Cork just before half five yesterday evening.

GARDAÍ interviewed the driver involved in a hit-and-run incident in Cork last weekend after he presented himself voluntarily at a garda station yesterday.

Gardaí are appealing for information on two separate hit and run incidents, which resulted in a total of five pedestrians being injured overnight.

A Corkman who was involved in a savage assault on two men in front of a 10-year-old girl while they were out fishing has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Rose Martin wasn’t on a wild goose chase when she visited Na Géanna Fiáine

THE leader of a gang who organised a savage attack on the former owner of two massage parlours and threatened him for money in the name of the IRA was jailed yesterday for five years.

THE former owner of two massage parlours claimed yesterday he was dragged from his bedroom and severely beaten and his family were threatened in the name of the IRA to get him to make cash payments of up to 12,700.