Thursday, March 11, 2010 Previous editions
MURDER victim Ann Corcoran fell foul of a “killer at large” when Oliver Hayes abducted and killed her, the Cork woman’s devastated elderly brother has said.
SIX weeks after the Health Service Executive (HSE) declared it had ended the dangerous custom of placing children with unapproved and unassessed foster carers, evidence has emerged to show that the unsafe practice actually continued.
AS the bells pealed to call people to midday Mass at St Francis’ Church outside the courtroom, murderer Oliver Hayes bowed his head on hearing his sentence.
OLIVER HAYES, who was jailed for life yesterday, showed a total lack of remorse for the woman he bludgeoned to death and he was given concurrent 10-year sentences for the five withdrawals he made from her bank as she lay dead at his home.
SOMETIMES we feel we are the only country forced to endure wet and miserable weather.
TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has rejected the Ombudsman’s call to have the Lost at Sea report reopened.
IT was hard to tell if Brian Cowen was clowning or drowning yesterday, but then when isn’t it?
A FURIOUS Environment minister John Gormley has scrambled to shut down discussion on his promise to resign from Cabinet and hand-over his ministry to backbencher Ciarán Cuffe.
THE HSE could be duty bound to report the death of a child linked to the care system within 48 hours of the event, under new guidelines unveiled yesterday.
A TEENAGE Chinese girl who arrived unaccompanied at Cork airport earlier this year has gone missing from HSE care.
ONE of the few women in US history to be charged with terrorism has been linked to an Irish plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.
UNIVERSITY of Limerick students have changed the name of the college rag week in an effort to curb antisocial behaviour.
LIMERICK’S International Band Parade and Competition next Sunday has attracted almost 600 musicians from marching bands who will travel from the US, Germany, Africa and Northern Ireland.
AN investigation into insurance schemes designed to cover national disasters, including flooding, has been announced by the European Commission.
IN what is being seen as a spectacular coup by Galway city, it has been chosen to be the finish port of the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race.
GALWAY will be the finish line for the next staging of the world’s most prized maritime race and organisers have called on the country to row in behind the effort.
A CORK radio station is planning to take legal action against a research group after a software glitch vastly underestimated its audience reach.
TEENAGERS in Mallow are taking action to get their town back to work.
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