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Gardaí in Cork have arrested a man in his 40s in connection with a fatal assault in the Lower John Street and Knapp’s Square area of Cork city on Monday evening. The man was arrested on Wednesday morning and is currently being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at a garda station in Cork city. “She was in bits this morning,” one resident in the Camden Court apartment complex on Carroll’s Quay said of the deceased man’s partner. One resident, Andrew Zammit, who is originally from Malta, said residents of Camden Court were both saddened and frightened by news of the suspected stabbing. I was scared for my partner thinking of it.”The apartments at Camden Court are “peaceful, quiet, and full of professionals,” Mr Zammit said.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin presented a bowl of shamrock to US President Donald Trump, as he wraps up his trip to America for St Patrick's Day. It is a symbol of friendship, a friendship between our peoples which is older than our Republics," Mr Martin said. Mr Trump said they were gathered to celebrate the "incredible feat of friendship" between Ireland and the US. The Taoiseach said Ireland is a small country and needs free trade to "make our way in the world". "We also need a just and sustainable peace in Ukraine.

Video: Desperate farmers start dressing as BEARS and growling in attempt to scare off potato-eating monkeysDesperate Indian farmers have begun to dress as bears and growl to try and scare off monkeys, who have been stealing their potatoes. The farmers, in Sambhal district, Uttar Pradesh, had tried running after the monkeys with brooms, banging drums and pans and using scarecrows.

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The definition of masculinity should not be “outsourced to people putting forward a toxic view”, Tánaiste Simon Harris has warned. There was confusion in Government last month about whether a blanket ban on under-16s using social media was set to be announced. “I'm really worried about the impact of it from a digital media age, from a social media age. Read More Giving smartphones to infants is morally wrong“Social media, digital media is not going away, but we need to have an honest debate around appropriate usage, around algorithms, and around age. He said consideration needs to be given to how to promote a "positive view" around men and boys.

Never mind the garish gold badge that adorns Chelsea's shirts, a tacky touch after they beat PSG to win the Club World Cup in front of Donald Trump last summer. Chelsea will not be challenging for the biggest trophies this season, nor for a while yet the way things are going. Never mind the PA announcer imploring home supporters to get behind the 'world champions' before kick-off. They had a three-goal deficit to overturn, and within six minutes PSG were 6-2 ahead on aggregate. The trio made a mockery of their Chelsea counterparts, including €100m men Fernandes and Moises Caicedo, who barely had a kick.

Ask Empower 2.0 can take hours of transcripts and interactions and provide a comprehensive brief in seconds. Performance analysis for leadersThe extended capabilities in Ask Empower 2.0 also put new analytics into the hands of managers leading teams across sales, support, customer success and recruiting and staffing. Enhanced AI assistant adds to conversational intelligence capabilitiesThe advanced AI assistant is just one part of the overall conversational AI capabilities behind Ringover that filter, sort, and analyze voice and video conducted over its unified communications platform. Conversational AI powers two AI features that Ringover quietly unveiled in 2025, including:• Immersive call simulations. As such, any unified communications platform is only as effective as its integration with those systems.

Kelly Mallon won her 12th senior All-Ireland and Gemma McCann won the intermediate. Ellen Sexton is one of the favourites for the Munster intermediate crown. Last year’s All-Ireland intermediate winner Gene McVeigh is hoping to become the first Tyrone Ulster senior champion. Seán Murphy beat Noel O’Donovan by two bowls in Zone B of the Munster junior A championship at Ballinacurra. Carbery (Meave Cuinnea, Lauren McCarthy and Aoife McCarthy) won the Munster girls' final with a sensational score of 1,518m.

Scott Bemand has signed a contract extension to remain as head coach of the Irish women's rugby team until the 2029 World Cup. At last year's World Cup, Ireland qualified for the quarter-final stage following pool stage victories over Spain and Japan before being edged out in a thrilling quarter-final by France in Exeter. "It is a great privilege to sign on for another Rugby World Cup cycle with the IRFU and reaffirm my commitment and belief in the squad and programme moving forward," said Bemand. IRFU Performance Director David Humphreys said: "We're delighted to secure Scott's future for the next Rugby World Cup cycle at an important growth stage for our women's squad. Ireland will open the Six Nations away to England at Allianz Stadium on April 11 before hosting Italy at Dexcom Stadium on April 18.

Dessie Hutchinson would like to see the Munster senior hurling championship return to a knock-out format. The Ballygunner man doesn’t need to be told how The Déise have failed to get out of the Munster senior hurling championship in the six seasons it has been played on a round-robin format since 2018. “I love that buzz of going and playing a knock-out game,” said Hutchinson, who was recently announced the AIB senior club hurler of the year for the second time after his 2022 success. Last year, we won the first round against Clare in the Munster championship and three (sic, four) weeks later we were gone. In previous years, maybe we didn’t do that.”As Stephen O’Keeffe picked up a record fifth AIB club hurling team of the year selection, Hutchinson hailed his club-mate.

HQAs we all know, the next person to have the honour of playing Lara Croft in a Tomb Raider screen adaptation is British Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner. This will be in a new TV series set to air on Amazon Prime Video. So far, we haven't seen almost anything official from it other than a promotional image, but now footage from the shoot has leaked online via the Daily Mail. We don't know exactly where this sequence fits into the TV series, but the Bluesky account Infinity Tomb Raider is sharing all the video footage and a batch of images that you can check out below. We don't know when the series will premiere, but considering that it's still not finished filming and also needs post-production, we probably shouldn't hold our breath for it to happen this year.

Frankie Óg Sheahan is continuing a proud family tradition as he lines out in another Munster Schools Senior Cup final on Wednesday. The PBC vice-captain’s father, ex-Ireland international Frankie, won his Senior Cup in 1993. Read More Join the Irish Examiner for livestream coverage of Munster senior cup schools rugby finals“My dad played rugby for Ireland, so that’s been a driving factor for me,” says Frankie Óg. This will be their fifth consecutive final, following two Junior Cup deciders with three Senior Cup showpieces. Rian McFarlane O’Shea from Presentation Brothers College alongside Jack Meaney from St. Munchins College ahead of the Pinergy Munster Schools Senior Boys Cup final.

Plans to renovate a former Cork city bank into a hotel have been submitted to Cork City Council. Irish hotelier Shay Livingstone is seeking planning permission, through his company Cadcove Holdings Limited, to redevelop the former National Irish Bank building at No 71 South Mall into a 58-bedroom hotel. The proposal provides for the preservation and repair of the limestone elevation on South Mall, as well as the addition of a customer entrance and service entrance on Morgan Street. The building has been vacant since 2012, when Danske Bank/National Irish Bank closed its 27 Irish branches. Cork City Council is due to make a decision on the application by May 5, 2026.

Spring sunshine and warmer temperatures in coming daysRhode forecaster Cathal Nolan has said the country can expect temperatures in the "mid-to-high teens" from tomorrow. In a post on social media, founder of the popular online forecast service, Ireland's Weather Channel, said spring sunshine will return with "settled weather" expected. 'Tomorrow (Thursday) will see beautiful sunshine countrywide, with temperatures reaching into the mid to high teens locally, with similar conditions forecast for Saturday as well. 'Settled over the weekend too, with a sunshine expected and temperatures above average for the time of year, but with a risk of some fog on eastern coastal fringes'. Met Éireann is forecasting similar weather conditions with temperatures expected to reach 16 degrees in the Midlands on Thursday and Friday.