A 62-year-old Cork man accused of setting fire to seven cars in his neighbourhood pleaded guilty to the arson charges yesterday.

The next time your readers are putting a lump of coal on the fire, having paid their carbon tax, they might bear in mind that their carbon footprint according to the information been feed to us, is contributing towards global warming.

WHIDDY ISLAND WALK, WEST CORK

A fire-fighter has said that the new foam system they used to fight a blaze that killed two of his colleagues was not as good as water.

TWO men from Co Down pleaded guilty yesterday at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee to charges relating to the theft of an ATM from a bank wall containing over €200,000 in Main Street Castleisand last November.

WITH little enough to keep us going at all these days, weeks like the one Rory McIlroy and Conor Niland gave us mean all the more. But even in better times, the life-affirming rallies known as Irish sporting bandwagons have been good to us.

SERVICES for the country’s most vulnerable people are being strangled by Government cutbacks which will result in the loss of 5,000 jobs in the community and voluntary sectors, according to a new report.

A heroin addict who was responsible for a number of crimes in Dublin over 10 months, including an unprovoked attack on a Slovakian man, has been sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

Gardaí have released the name of a 30-year-old man killed in a Dublin apartment early on Saturday.

A man accused of raping two of his sisters in an alleged incest ring today denied any of the abuse ever happened.

I READ with sadness all the criticism of the new Cork airport in your letters columns recently.

Gardaí in Wexford have arrested a man in connection with the death of a non-national in the town yesterday evening.

FAIR play to Cllr Noel Collins who is “carrying the cross” for Cork county council (Irish Examiner, April 26).