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# Cobh

All time
# Out of control
'Shocked' boaters rescued in Cobh after motor-craft crashes at Titanic Bar
The men were thrown from their vessel after hitting a buoy. The boat then sped away from the scene and crashed into the shore.
# Jordan McLoughlin
Can you help? This 15-year-old from Cobh has been missing for over 48 hours
Jordan McLoughlin was last seen at around 10pm on Wednesday.
# stinky
Social Protection has spent almost €4,000 investigating office smells
2011 was particularly fragrant for the Department, conducting two ‘investigations of odour/smells’.
# subs for cash
This Cork classified ad is selling a Russian nuclear attack submarine
He’ll swap it for a “3 bed semi in a nice area”.
# Fáilte
Kilkenny named as Ireland’s 2013 Tourism Town
The ninth-friendliest city in the world has been honoured again this year.
# COYBIG
Keane opens door for Stephen Ireland return but won't be camping outside his house
One exiled Corkman’s returned… room for another?
# Co Cork
Man questioned over Cobh hit-and-run
A woman in her fifties was seriously injured after she was hit by a car in the Co Cork town yesterday morning.
# Roads
Woman pedestrian hospitalised after Cork hit-and-run
The woman was taken to Cork University Hospital where her condition is described a serious.
# Oh ship!
Watch as an Irish Navy ship collides with a pontoon
Complete with German/Scandinavian/Dutch swearing!
# Carrigtwohill
Gardaí in Cobh investigating after woman assaulted in her home
The woman sustained a number of injuries and was treated at Cork University Hospital.
# Arrests
Gardaí arrest fifth man after in attempted robbery at Cork home
All four men are being questioned under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act and can be held for up to seven days.
# N25
Driver travelling in the wrong direction killed in Cork road crash
The two-car collision happened on the N25 between Little Island and Cobh.
# Hidden Ireland
Hidden Ireland: A deserted medieval town, Ireland's Alcatraz, and a round tower
As part of the Hidden Ireland series, Neil Jackman looks at 3 off-the-beaten-track places to visit in Roscommon, Cork and Laois.
# Titanic
Historic Titanic artifacts returned to Cobh for anniversary
Items on display include a leather suitcase purchased at Harrods, a number of photographs and a hand-painted fan.
# Burglary
Woman tied up by three men during Cork armed burglary
Three men wearing balaclavas and one armed with a rifle ransacked the woman’s home in Carrignavar last night.
# Cork
Three injured in Cork road collision
The three people involved in the collision were taken to hospital but are not thought to have serious injuries.
# Roads
Gardaí renew appeal for witnesses to serious Cork crash
One person was seriously injured after being struck by a car on the Cork to Waterford road eight days ago.
# Roads
Appeal for witnesses after serious Cork crash
The accident happened on the Cork to Waterford road in the early hours of this morning.
# THE rankings
IBAL Litter League 2012: Where did your town finish?
Kilkenny has been named Ireland’s most litter-free town by Irish Business Against Litter. Did your town feature highly?
# social history
In pics: Ellis Island and its 'huddled masses'
Archive photographs show “the tired, the poor” – and the occasional imposter Russian prince – who made up the millions passing through US immigration terminal from 1892.
# Roads
Woman injured in weekend crash dies in Cork hospital
The 26-year-old woman sustained serious injuries when the car she was driving collided with a 4×4. She died in hospital this morning.
# Roads
Gardaí appeal for witnesses to serious Cork crash
A 26-year-old woman was seriously injured when the car she was driving collided with a 4×4 in Cobh.
# Phoenix Park
Update: Cork girl missing since Phoenix Park gig safe and well
19-year-old Aoife Finan from Cobh had been missing since she attended the Swedish House Mafia gig on Saturday night.
# Titanic
In pictures: One of the Titanic's last letters to go on display at museum
The letter was brought ashore to Cobh – then known as Queenstown – on the doomed ship’s last stop.
# Rescue
Man pulled from sea in Cork after being spotted through telescope
The man got into difficulties on the water off Cobh when he was spotted by a person using a telescope a mile away.
# Roads
19-year-old woman killed in Cork car crash
Gardaí are investigating the collision involving two cars in Cobh at around 9pm last night.
# titanic100
Concerts, cruises and exhibits: what's happening to mark the Titanic's anniversary?
Commemorations are taking place in Cobh, Belfast, and Southampton to mark the centenary of one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history.
# get off that ship
Stunning Titanic graphic novel was seven years in the making
Irish illustrator reveals his labour of love – a graphic novel that chronicles the experience of photographer Fr Frank Browne on board the doomed ship.
# Poignant
This is where the Titanic was at this time exactly 100 years ago
Interactive map shows that the ship would have been off the southwestern coast of Ireland, having left Cobh at 1.30pm on this day in 1912.
# titanic100
Michael D Higgins to mark 100 years since Titanic left Ireland
The president will travel to Cobh today, exactly a century after the liner docked there.
# titanic100
The luckiest priest on the Titanic...
Fr Frank Browne left behind one of the most valuable photographic records of the first leg of the Titanic’s maiden voyage. Luckily for him, his Jesuit superior ordered him off the boat at Cobh.
# titanic100
Is Titanic a true story? Er, yes.
Some Twitter users have had their #mindblown by news that there was a ship called Titanic and it did actually sink. And they are not the only ones…
# titanic100
In pictures: Passengers from 'Titanic' cruise stop off in Ireland
They were greeted in Cobh by crowds, music and the ‘Titanic Deals’ discount store…
# titanic100
7 ways to mark the Titanic centenary. Some are rather odd.
With the opening of the world’s largest Titanic exhibition in Belfast in two weeks time – TheJournal.ie gives some alternative ideas of how you can remember the tragic Titanic
# titanic100
The ocean floor pics that show how the Titanic sank
New images show how the exact break-up of the Titanic might now be understood – and whether the ship had a fatal design flaw.
# titanic100
Relatives of Titanic victim appeal for help in buying letter at auction
A letter by surgeon John Edward Simpson written just days before the ship sank in April 1912 is to expected to fetch at least $50,000 at the auction later this week – but his descendants want the letter back in Belfast.
# London 2012
Sonia O'Sullivan to carry Olympic torch into Dublin, Olympic chiefs reveal
Organiser also reveal that boxing heroes Michael Carruth and Wayne McCullough would pass the torch over the border.
# Arrests
Two arrested over gun find in Co Cork
Gardaí say the two men are being held at Cobh Garda Station.
# Titanic
Titanic memorial cruise sells out for 100th anniversary voyage
Cruise following the route of the Titanic’s maiden journey is to set sail from Southampton in April 2012.