As regards an article in the Irish Examiner about the condition of Macroom garda station, during my late husband’s service in the Garda Siochana, I lived in the married quarters of two garda stations, for a total of ten years.

The mayor of a Co Cork town fears traffic gridlock will ensue during the second phase of its €38m flood alleviation works unless its bypass toll is axed.

FLOOD campaigners will plead with a Government minister today for emergency funds to carry out vital dredging to protect a west Cork town from disaster.

THE minister with responsibility for flood protection has vowed to protect the taxpayer from any attempts to blame or sue publicbodies for flood damage.

“QUESTIONS must be addressed to the chair!”; “Deputies may not involve the chair in public controversies!”; “Every deputy will be treated fairly by this chair”; “You must be seated while the chair is standing!”.

DESPITE an ongoing row about planning permission arising from a 1.6m restoration of Listowel Castle, the castle is due to be officially reopened by Minister of State at the Office of Public Works (OPW) Tom Parlon on Thursday.

GARDAÍ have run up €5 million in mobile phone calls since 1997, leaving the Office of Public Works (OPW) to pick up the bill.

GARDAÍ have made millions of euro worth of calls on phones supplied by O2, leaving the OPW to pick up the tab.

THE future of a €35m flood relief scheme in Kilkenny City is in doubt following the discovery of a cancer-causing toxin in silt removed from the river bed in the past few weeks.