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A Cork family is “lucky to be alive” after a 60ft tree smashed through the roof of their home, crashing straight into their bedrooms during Storm Éowyn. Angela Ducey and her family had decided to sleep downstairs last night in their house in Killavullen, North Cork, and she believes this saved them. Her daughter Aine, […]
“Horrifying” conditions in a Cork puppy farm left emaciated dogs so disfigured they could only walk on their knees. Vasyl Fedoryn had 13 dogs in “putrid” conditions, many with no water, their coats matted in faeces at his home in Ballypierce, Charleville, Cork. Conditions there were so bad that experienced ISPCA inspector Caroline Faherty became […]
Up to 500 descendants of the organised emigration of impoverished North Cork families in the 1800s will travel to Ireland from Canada later this year to mark the 200th anniversary of the event. The visit is being organised by regional development company Ballyhoura GLC to commemorate the 1825 “Peter Robinson Experiment”. Mr Robinson, a Canadian […]
Actor Richard E Grant was among the thousands of passengers who jetted into Cork on Sunday for the Christmas holidays. The English actor and presenter, who has starred in Downton Abbey, Saltburn, A Christmas Carol, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula among many others, arrived into Cork Airport on a flight from London. He told the Irish […]
Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe-nominated Irish actor Saoirse Ronan has received a rejection slip from Cork County Council for her hopes to knock and build a new home by the water’s edge in West Cork. Senior planners have given the thumbs down to the leading actor’s plans to demolish a dormer holiday home called Boithrin […]
A key element of BusConnects Cork is “dead in the water”, it has been claimed, following confirmation that Bus Éireann, which is already struggling with a driver shortage, needs another 120 drivers to deliver the city’s proposed new bus network. But the National Transport Authority (NTA) has confirmed the need for an additional 40 to […]
3pm: Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is set to top the poll in Cork South Central and be elected on the first count, according to final tallies. With all 153 boxes tallied in the five-seat constituency, Mr Martin holds just over 23% of first preference votes, while his party colleague Seamus McGrath is on […]
A 57-year-old man sent intimate photographs and videos of his wife to two other men along with offensive sexual texts and she has described the devastation caused by the betrayal by her husband after 25 years of marriage. On Thursday, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, he was jailed for 18 months. There is a legal […]