A battle among a new generation of Real IRA members to control its drugs trade, racketeering, and money-laundering operations may have lead to the killing of dissident republican Aidan O’Driscoll, garda sources believe.

Two American tourists had to be cut from a car after it flipped over on its side on a busy street in the north side of Cork city. The accident occurred when the car in which they were travelling clipped the rear wheel of a parked car on Gerald Griffin St, Blackpool, yesterday afternoon.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy was hit in the back in a random drive-by shooting in Cork city centre yesterday.

FIVE men were being held by gardaí last night after €75,000 worth of lager cans were discovered in a Cork warehouse just four miles from where they were stolen.