A witness has told the trial of a man accused of murdering a widow in Kilkenny that she saw him banging on her door the day she was killed.

Henry Ford paid an emotional visit to Cork in 1912 and here, Denis McSweeney imagines the scenario that unfolded.

A 1990s-built, yet traditional looking 14-bedroomed townhouse accommodation business in West Cork’s Clonakilty has a guide price of €600,000 as it comes for sale, all ready to trade: even the bedrooms are prepped for guests.

Tommy Barker views a city villa home with due respect for its past.

A murder investigation is under way in Limerick following the death of a 39-year-old man in the city in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A strange sight on Shandon caught the eyes of Shirley McCarthy and her sister on Saturday - two people balancing on a ledge of the 120 ft tall Cork landmark.

A strange sight on Shandon caught the eyes of Shirley McCarthy and her sister Susan on Saturday - two people balancing on a ledge of the 120 ft tall tower.

A schoolteacher, mugged by a violent criminal, picked herself off the ground and chased her attacker to recover a handbag, a court in Limerick heard yesterday.

The glorious autumn sunshine seemed inappropriate on a grief-laden afternoon, as Jonathan O’Driscoll was buried in Kilmallock graveyard alongside his maternal grandparents, Margaret (Dicey) Conway and her husband Paddy.

Riverdance composer Bill Whelan last night cast his eye back on times past to childhood days in his old Limerick neighbourhood.

A man has been arrested after a drug seizure in Dublin city centre yesterday afternoon.

WE set off north, up MacCurtain Hill, passing the garda station on our right.

Location: Limerick

A Wicklow accountant who ran over a trainee nurse with his Jeep in Dublin City Centre has received an 18-month suspended sentence and a four-year driving ban.

The 79-year-old widow Nancy Smyth was strangled in her home in 1987.

No 83 Wolfe Tone Street, Cork, is an easy home to keep warm, Tommy Barker reports

Thousands of rugby fans who will throng Limerick on Easter Sunday for the do-or-die Heineken Cup clash between Munster and Ulster have been given extra warm-up time by the city’s legal referee.

A 28-YEAR-OLD man jailed by the Special Criminal Court in connection with extortion threatened to kill a prison officer while in custody on another matter, a court has heard.

A CORONER is to ask Bus Éireann to review its procedures after an inquest heard how a man lay dead on a bus for almost two hours after he choked on raw meat.

EIGHT Limerick men are to face charges including extortion and threats to kill at the non-jury Special Criminal Court.

A HIGH-PROFILE Limerick figure last night sparked political outrage after he appeared on a court prison video link with his face partially masked by a bandana mask and making a finger gestures to the camera.

A CASH-STRAPPED solider, who robbed a betting shop located next to Sarsfield Barracks where he was based, had his career saved when a judge bound him to the peace for three years.

A WEST CORK town was under three feet of water yesterday morning, for the second time in seven weeks.

A MAN described as one of Limerick’s most vicious criminals has died suddenly in jail while serving life for the brutal murder of a barman in the city.

A CASH-STRAPPED solider was quickly identified after he robbed a betting shop located next to Sarsfield Barracks where he was based, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A former Garda sergeant attempted to pay prostitutes to get children as young as five for sex a year after he had been released for a similar offence, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

LIMERICK will feature on New Zealand prime time television next month as part of the build-up to the November 18 Munster v All Blacks game in Thomond Park.

A Chinese national who shot and murdered a Kilkenny Post master just two days after he took over running the post office from his father who died of cancer has been given a life sentence.

A Chinese national has been found guilty of murdering a Kilkenny postmaster who he shot in the stomach after a post office robbery that netted him more than €13,000.

Witnesses who saw a Kilkenny postmaster being shot say they saw a man stopping and waving a gun at the postmaster as he chased the man along Kilkenny’s Wolfe Tone Street.

A man who is on trial for the murder of a Kilkenny postmaster, who he shot following a raid that netted him about €15,000, told postal clerks "thanks" as he left, a court has heard.

THE pre-Christmas excitement surrounding Kilkenny on one of the year’s busiest shopping days was shattered in cruel and brutal fashion with the killing of local postmaster Alan Cunniffe, a single man in his 30s, seconds after an armed robbery yesterday afternoon.

A post office worker has died after being been shot during an armed robbery at his workplace in Kilkenny city today.

A post office worker has apparently been shot during an armed robbery at his workplace in Kilkenny city today.

Two African asylum seekers have been discovered stowing away in a delivery lorry in Dublin.

A DREAM Munster rugby package has gone on sale in Limerick for a good cause.

Gardaí in Cork and Kerry have released three men arrested yesterday as part of an investigation into alleged money-laundering.

Gardaí were tonight questioning five men after major seizures of cocaine and cash in Dublin and Cork.

A series of early morning arrests were made today as part of an investigation into money-laundering by Cork drug-dealers.

Gardai investigating the murder of a young Albanian woman in Sligo have released a man they were questioning without charge.

A MAN was released without charge last night as gardaí continued their investigations into the suspicious death of an Albanian woman in Sligo after a weekend of violence and tragedy.

Gardaí in Sligo are continuing to question a man in connection with the suspicious death of an Albanian woman in the town yesterday.

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