She is mourning the loss of four sons, three died due to drugs A Cork mother is pleading with the government to take action after she lost three sons to drug addiction. Dillon Kavanagh, 30, from Gurranabraher in Cork city passed away on Thursday of a suspected overdose, just days after his 36-year-old brother Damien […]

1 year ago

‘I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a game I know nothing about’ The All-Ireland hurling final was broadcast across the BBC networks for the first time on Sunday, opening the game up to a whole new audience. Clare and Cork faced each other at Croke Park as they battled it out for […]

1 year ago

It is not thought that he victim knew his attacker An elderly man has been killed at a hospital in Ireland after an alleged assault. Gardaí in Cork are investigating the death of a man in his late 80s following an incident at Mercy University Hospital in Cork early this morning (January 22). Gardaí were […]

3 years ago

A tough situation A man in the Irish city of Cork was forced to contact police this weekend after his housemates refused to stop having house parties despite the ongoing pandemic and public health restrictions. The news broke on RTÉ Radio 1 as reporter Brian O’Connell went out on the beat with Garda Paul Drommey […]

5 years ago

Swearing at Roy Keane seems like a stupid thing to do Few footballers have retained a tough man reputation quite as well as Roy Keane. The former Manchester United and Ireland captain took no prisoners during his playing days, from kicking Alf Inge Haaland into a parallel universe, to telling Patrick Vieira to pick on […]

6 years ago

Denis O’Connor is some man for one 83-year-old man. An 83-year-old man has been hailed as a “total hero” for his role in helping to foil an attempted armed robbery of a bookmakers in Ireland over the weekend. On Saturday, three men, reportedly armed with a shotgun and two hammers, attempted to stage a robbery […]

8 years ago