A 58-year-old man went to take off his trousers and underpants at the scene of a disturbance in Cork City when he shouted abuse at gardaí.

One hundred garda stations are to shut in the most radical restructuring of the force since the foundation of the State.

WALKING down Shandon Street in Cork on a recent Sunday morning, I was disgusted at the filth underfoot. There was hardly a paving slab that was not smeared or encrusted with something vile that had to be stepped over.

The trial of three young men accused of murdering a 19 year-old Dublin man collapsed today at the Central Criminal Court.

A murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court today heard that one of the three co-accused was "getting on like a house on fire" with the 19 year-old victim at a friend’s party in the hours before the killing.